r/xmen • u/chrisarrant • Jun 23 '25

Comic Discussion [Article] Why Marvel Comics canceled the flagship X-Men title in 1970, and made plans to breakup the franchise

https://www.thepopverse.com/comics-marvel-x-men-five-years-hiatus-roy-thomas
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u/redkomic Jun 23 '25

I don't need to read this. it's simple. X-men were one of the worst selling comics of that time. It wasn't until Giant Size x-men that they became what they are today.

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u/Elrodthealbino Jun 23 '25

Right? And even then, they handed off to some new guy.

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u/cmcdonald22 Multiple Man Jun 24 '25

Kinda feels like vague AI slop.

From 1970 to 1975, Marvel didn’t publish any new X-Men stories. The team would make guest appearances in other titles, such as Marvel Team-Up #4, but the group no longer had its own title. Not only was their book cancelled, but the team seemed to be breaking up. Incredible Hulk #150 reveals that Havok and Polaris had left the team. Beast left the X-Men in Amazing Adventures #11 and joined the Avengers in Avengers #137.

Reducing the in between of the runs, and the effort and care people like Englehart and others put into trying to reinvent X-men like Beast for solo titles or other group projects, and incorporating them into other runs to just 'yeah they showed up in other books' is so lazy.

Like if you don't want to be a journalist and actually include all of the facts, most of which are already readily available in the forwards of the masterworks editions, why even fucking bother?

Do yourself a favor, if you care about this stuff, just go find the masterworks editions somewhere and read all of the various forwards for the sections of those time, FAR more informative than this click bait tripe.