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Message: [QUOTE="Segadude113, post: 236003, member: 560402"] Marvel Epic Collection - X-Men Volume 19-23 ect. (starting with the Jim Lee era) #19 - Mutant Genesis #20 - Bishop's Crossing #21 - The X-Cutioner's Song #22 - Legacies #23 - Fatal Attractions If you want a literal comic adaptation of X-Men The Animated Series, there's X-Men Adventures. There's also the Japanese take on it called X-Men The Manga. Both series are in 2 volumes each. [automerge]1749998888[/automerge] The thing about classic X-Men comics is there's the first 66 issues (that was the original comic run) and then issue 67-93 were just reprinted stories from older issues to stall for time until Giant Size X-Men #1 released and gave the series a new direction by adding new characters like Storm, Wolverine, and Nightcrawler. Then it continued after that from issue 94 onward throughout the 1970s and 1980s. This series was then known as Uncanny X-Men. Meanwhile adjectiveless X-Men wouldn't start until 1990 with Jim Lee's and Chris Claremont's X-Men #1, the issue that once again rebooted interest in the series. X-Men then ran alongside Uncanny X-Men. X-Men (1990) was the inspiration for the animated series in 1992. Jim Lee left the comic early on to form Image Comics with his fellow frustrated artists like Rob Liefeld. Rob was responsible for Cable, Deadpool, X-Force, New Mutants, ect. JIm Lee created guys like Omega Red and Bishop. Shame that Marvel let them go. They redefined X-Men the same way the 1970s did. [automerge]1749999225[/automerge] That was the 1990s in comics for me, it felt like they were starting to take the stories more seriously like manga arcs. Then it all fell apart in the late 90s and Marvel went bankrupt. Meanwhile Shonen Jump was pumping out hit after hit, year after year. Then the next decade they brought them over to the US. [automerge]1749999764[/automerge] Thankfully Spider-Man didn't have the same problems as X-Men did. You can start with Amazing Spider-Man #1 and keep reading all the way to the 90s. Todd McFarlane's Spider-Man started after that and had a strong start but he also left Marvel and it was passed to better writers. Venom was good too. Spectacular Spider-Man was alright. There's a few good short stories here n there. But the first 20 issues of Amazing Spider-Man introduce all the best Spider-Man villains. Stan Lee and Steve Ditko were on fire back then! [automerge]1750000085[/automerge] Silver Surfer was better in his second series than his first. The first one is your run of the mill early Marvel fare. Every issue had a random new villain but they were on Earth so it could have been anyone in the same role saving the day. There's still the pathos with Surfer, but it's nothing like the second series! The second series is when Surfer finally leaves Earth and runs into other cosmic entities and major Marvel characters from Guardians of The Galaxy, Thor, ect. That was the series that ran in the 80s. It's so much better. Surfer even goes back to his old homeworld and finds out Mephisto screwed it all up. [/QUOTE]

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