The Best Selling Comic Book EVER - X-Men 1! 

Paul Reinman was about 7 years older than Kirby. He started penciling and inking during the golden age and by the silver age mainly was just inking. Reinman inked Kirby on several comics, including The Incredible Hulk #1, The X-Men #1-5, and The Avengers #2, 3 & 5. He worked for DC and Archie as well and also did color work for Marvel in the 1970s.

Wow, that X-men looks great. Excellent colors that don't drown out the line art, and proper matte paper. All classic reprints should be handled this way. Nice

2:39 Venture Bros. The cartoon is called Venture Bros. One of the best and most underrated animated series out there. It has a countless amount of references to TV, film and of course, comics. (One of the creators also worked on the Tick series.) It is a must watch. Might I also recommend the art book. It is a perfect companion to the series.

Doctor Solar #5, where he gets the costume and visor, was on sale a month before X-Men#1, anther one of those weird synchronicities. It's likely they were both inspired by Jack Cole's Golden Age visored hero the Comet, whose power was so terrifying that (as is pointed out in Fantagraphics collection. Supermen!) as soon as he showed up, crooks would beg him not to kill them. Paul Reinman was a golden age guy who worked on Green Lantern, did Marvel anthology stories in the Atlas Era and inked Kirby on Marvel heroes for a brief period in the 60's. When Jerry Siegel did the Mighty Comics stories at Archie, basically attempting to exploit the success of Marvel, Reinman drew everything: Fly-Man, the Mighty Crusaders, the Shield, even a funky superhero version of the Shadow.

The eyes close-up thing is perhaps from 'Man with the X-ray Eyes' (1963) film, which also stars a character called Xavier, by the way.

Thanks to ed and Tom. I recently got X men omnibus issue 1 to 30 FF omnibus issue 1 to 30 Got to say love it. Absolutly love it. The fact that you release content everyday is awesome! Best comic book chanel in the whole internet. Looking forward to your red rooms! Have to pick them up.

I think it would be really cool to look at the contemporary DC stuff that was coming out at the same time and to really see where Marvel blew the industry up

I just purchased this!! I dont want to be spoiled by the video!

It's insane how when Professor X's love for Jean is revealed...he doesn't act on it because he is in a wheelchair, not because he is her teacher and she is 16...given how ridiculous that is, might as well have had him cast doubts because he is bald...lol

Paul Reinman drew and inked quite a few Thunder Agents stories back in the 1960s. At the time, I thought Reinman was terrible. But I recently learned that he was a pretty good painter. Some artists stay in comics even though they really should do other kinds of art.

I can see the FF influence now that you mention it; Angel is Johnny Storm's looks and flight, Iceman is his temperature powers &creating constructs from it as well as his immaturity, Jean is Sue's gender, beauty, voice of "womanly sensibility" as well as unseen power (I even wonder if the influence went both ways, with her telekinesis inspiring Sue's invisible field shaping, Beast is Ben Grimms looks, Thing's blunt monster name, and strength, and even odd speech-pattern based on intellectual stereotyping (though exact opposites; which is where Beast takes also from Reed's near-comical technotalk, along with flexibility). Even Cyclops can be seen having some FF shadowing in his relationship with Jean being a flip on Sue's with Reed. It also all further locks in the who Doom Patrol analog claims. Nice, and its only what 5 minutes in?

I hope that soon there will be a review of one or more of the Neal Adams penciled issues from the end of this run of X-men comics. There are also Steranko penciled issues in the run that are worth reviewing.

9:51 - How amazing would it be if Jack Kirby's first use of the eyes close-up panel was an angry dad discovering his daughter in a compromised situation of some 1950s romance comic?!

Great disection of X-MEN #1 (1963). I first read it in Son Of Origins Of Marvel Comics. I own 2 more reprints of that issue. Thanks for sharing it.

Enormous X-Men fan here...very excited for the coverage here on this artifact!

I love the pulse going through Cyclop's blast on the cover starting around 30:10 or so. Looks like a reflection of a ceiling fan, but the effect is cool.

That "T-shirt" page really shows where Mike Allred's art is inspired from. (I'd like if you guys would review Red Rocket 7... odd sized comic book series. Record sized, basically square. Published in 1997. I have a few signed. Nice guy. Nobody seems to ever talk about it.) And the Madman trade with the "flip-action corners is really good as well... Love your work, Jim and Ed!

Regarding the comment at 3:24 about inker Paul Reinman -- he also inked Kirby's pencils on Incredible Hulk issue 1 but seems to have departed Marvel circa 1963 or '64. He's like a better George Bell, in my opinion -- lots of heavy brush strokes. Reinman was a regular on Marvel's pre-hero "giant atomic monster" books of the late '50s and earliest '60s, inking his own pencils.

I think The Venture Bros is the show you were talking about. There's a lot of Kirby influence on that show. I love it.

The cartoon your thinking about is the Venture Bros. I think. The shows pays homage to popular culture that mostly pertains to superheroes or really obscure things.

Doctor Solar was created in 1962 and Cyclops in 1963. I never related their design, but it does make sense. So Solar was the first guy with the cool goggles

1989, the year I started reading comics. Classic X-men is what got me into it. I would buy every X-Men related comic book, and Spider-man, at the Shaws spinner rack every week. I'd try other books too, but X-Men and Spidey got first dibs on my allowance. That same year I am at the Rayham flea market. There's a guy selling comics. This guy must have known even less about comics than I did at the time because he sold me X-men #1, 3, and 9 (along with a bunch of other books I dont recall) for like nothing. I had no idea what I had (where's wolverine? that aint beast) I didnt know a thing about collecting and prices or anything. A year later I want to buy a Super Nintendo so I bring my comics into my local New England Comics. I am 11 years old. I am told they are only worth $50. Damn. Not enough for a snes, but I take it. Sometime later I am in that shop and I see the X-men #9 bagged and on the wall for $300. Who knows how much they got for the #1 and 3 and the 100+ other issues of X-men, Wolverine, Spider-man, and random others (oh yeah I had every Secret Wars issue too!) What kind of scumbag takes advantage of a kid like that? They could have atleast given me enough for a super nintendo goddamnit. They'd still be robbing me but atleast I could have been playing Super Mario World.

great video guys. I hope to see the three of you cover simon and kirby's stuntman someday too.

When I posted that t-shirt design on my unpublished X-Men blog I checked with Mark Evanier and he did confirm that Chic Stone was the inker. If anyone knows for sure, it's Mark.

X-men except the professor were all supposed to be teenagers in X-men number one. The professor supposedly was an adult during World War 2 if I remember right.

Ed is right, Dr Solar Summer 1962, Cyclops in X-men 1963. The reprint they refer to, has itself been recoloured (rather crudely). Here is an original v=L4K7p5WzsCE, copy and paste into youtube

I always wondered why Cyclops is called Slim Summers and not Scott in this story. It shows up at the bottom of page 104. Anyone else notice this?

I'll never be able to afford an Amazing Fantasy 15 but I was fortunate enough to get a raw X-Men 1 around six or seven years ago. Today's prices are crazy! Even a 0.5 by CGC is too rich for my blood.

The Ray by MLJ comics which later became Archie Comics wore a visor and shot disintegrator beams from his eyes in the nineteen forties more than 20 years before Cyclops. Day the earth stood still movie about robot with laser beams from his visor The one with Michael Rennie, Dr. Solar and Cyclops were later still. Keanu Reeves in Day the earth stood still was after all these.

Am I crazy cuz I thought the Claremont/Lee X-Men #1 was the best selling comic ever, not this one.

Any of those 60s Marvel Comics were also as excellent as The X-Men.

However how did he see if he had frost covering his eyes?

Come to think of it.. it should not have been called" marvel comics " -instead rather" Kirby comics"

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another x-men banger

I wanted to share my comics online...how do you guys get around copywrite? I imagine you have a special deal as sellers...

X-Men #1 (1990) is the best selling comic ever, because of the 4 different covers that form 1 image of the team fighting magneto. This is The X-Men #1 (1963) , definitely not the best selling comic book ever, in fact it sold poorly compared to most of it's contemporaries like Fantastic 4 and Avengers. I thought the title of the video was a joke but they never acknowledged that they were joking, how do they know this little about the industry they work in?