All New, All Different X-Men #108. Cockrum cover. Byrne's first issue. Was at the laundromat with my Mom. There was a drug-store next door. The comic rack was a skeleton, but for some Archies, Superman, Conan, and this masterpiece. Up until that point, between Nightcrawler, Colossus, and Storm, I thought the new X-Men were monsters.


Check out the corner box. They all look eery and evil. Even Cyclops and Banshee:

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It was around issue 180. I immediately started collecting back issues and went back to about 160. I also got the Dark Phoenix graphic novel and read that, so I am familiar with that storyline. I stopped collecting X-Men when the new title came out. Just started checking it all out again.

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in the 6th grade. 19 years ago. I got five discount issues for a dollar. I remember two of them were the storyline with Gulath Khan (or however you spell his name)

I started in the late 70s, after Byrne took over, my first issue was the first of the two in Japan facing Moses Magnum with Sunfire, which was around issue #115.

I started reading at a bad time when I really think about it. #247 when Rogue and Mastermold were blasted through the Seige Perilous. The following issues Storm "died", Longshot left, Polaris got her powers stolen, the X-Men also went through the Seige Perilous to escape the Reavers, and then Wolverine was crucified (which was arguably the best front cover that Uncanny ever had). It was so depressing but I couldn't stop reading it. I had to find out what happened next.

So I'd say I read X-Men from 89 up until 1995 or whenever that whole Age Of Apocalypse thing was over...

Hard to remember, because I've read stories from earlier than when I started. It was the original team; before the first (?) giant-size with the Trask Sentinels. I want to say something to do with Sauron, but I could easily be getting my order mixed up. I was pretty well hooked from that Sentinels giant-size though; that's what I remember best from that era.

I'm thinkin' some old X-Men Classics books around 1989 or so... later, when I was more able, I got into X-Factor right around the Larry Stroman (pencils) era...

the first issue I read was in seventh or eighth grade, little Ilyana Rasputin was with the Xmen and she fell into Limbo. Then I missed a couple of issues, and then the Xmen had met the Morlocks and Kitty was marrying Caliban and Storm was fighting Callisto.

Hi! I just joined this tribe. I have been a fan of the Xmen for over twenty years. It was hard to keep up when all the different titles started popping up. So now I collect comic art books and graphic novels, while browsing at the bookstore and keeping up on the main story line. As for the movies, I like them for the most part. Though I have to consider the movie storylines as a separate X-universe since they changed some major background info from the comic.

Nightcrawler is by far my favorite character followed by Storm and Rachel.

I look forward to reading the back posts and catching up. :)

I was a child (late 80s) and was going through my brother's closet when i found a trunk of old comics. There was like red sonja and conan and maybe elf quest and all that stuff... then I saw the uncanny xmen (it was an old one) and There was the man with the blue skin (nightcrawler) and the Black African woman with white hair who could call down lightening (storm)... hahahahahahahaha... Honey i fell in love but couldn't get to any more... later in the 90s (during the Jean Grey came back, the white queen is slaped into a coma, the hellions were destoryed and the here comes bishop years) I discovered my older cousin collected so i would save my allowance and he would take me to the comic shop with him: sometimes i would be able to read his old comics so i could catch up: he was a collector and kept them in plastic (one of the ones i loved best back then was the titans x men cross over)...

I was about 11 years old, and the concept of "mutant" as personage struck a chord with me. This was the point in time of my life when I started REALLY noticing how different from other peopleI was.
I must say, I AM PROUD TO BE A MUTANT!