The History of the X-Men: The 90s | Seminal Moments: Part 2 

This is what hooked me to comics. Jim Lee and the X-Men!!

I was there in the 90’s when this run was going. X-Men was THE comic of the world at that point. The comics were selling huge, the Animated Series was in full swing and even Pizza Hut was doing a promo with VHS tapes. Absolute Golden Age to be a kid!!!

8 million copies sold! That’s still mind blowing. Back in 91 I knew I dug the X-Men and my friends also dug the X-Men But I had no idea how huge X-Men was until #1 dropped and did those insane numbers. It’s a Era in comics that will never be repeated.

Can’t wait for X-Men to join the MCU! I’m glad Jonathan Hickman is back as well. Go Marvel.

The whole Claremont era from Giant X-Men to his work with Jim Lee is one amazing work of fiction.

The XMen cartoon in the 90's, was my all time favorite

That was my personal "golden age" of comics. I still have most of those comics chillen inside a shoe box up in my closet. Thank you for the memories. X-Men will always be more dear to my heart than any Avengers comic.

Chris Claremont is a legend.

Chris claremont is truly a legend.

X-Men #1 defined my teenage years.

I like how popular Marvel has become in the last few years, but what I don’t like is when people say they are a big marvel fan when they’ve only watched the movies and don’t know who the X-Men are. Because to me, Marvel is the X-Men!

It was basically the end of Chris Claremont as the main X-men writer, due to how much power was given to the artists at the time, but I think he left the run at the top of his game. Those last three issues are still pretty good even today.

I’m loving these mini docs Marvel!!

The drawings were so good, they became T-shirts.

X men, best team ever.

Still got the whole series from that point. Loved the artwork, Made me a Jim Lee fan from those full cover spreads.

Thanks for posting this! Please more of these documentary videos, Thanks!

As a kid who grew up 90s i loved the cartoon. Growing up i started to read Claremont’s run. I was very sad to hear that Claremont had to leave because of Bob Harris and Jim Lee after X-men #3 of this run. All he got was a little box that read CSC 1975-1991 he didn’t even get to write something in the letters pages. And then Jim Lee didn’t even stay on the book long either. You got to give it to Claremont for being loyal to marvel and then they kick him off and let some hot artist who then left the company after how many issues. I just felt like how could they do this to someone who’s been working on it forever and just unceremoniously get him off and not give him the ending he wanted or some words to say. Anyways these are great short docs more of these and hoping for the best with Hickman on marvel !!! :)

We need to go back. Make X-Men Great Again!

My dad was a huge fan of the Jim lee run, so much so that he has 6 versions of x-men #1 and reading his comics is what made me love the x-men and comics thank you Jim lee

I’m hoping Chris becomes the head writer to the MCU’s X-Men Movies and Disney+ series

I heard so many great things about this book. I read it twice digitally. What really pulls me into that book is the beautiful epic cover

THIS IS INTENSIFYING THE UPCOMING JONATHAN HICKMAN RUN OF X-MEN!! GREAT JOB MARVEL! Cant wait for part 3!!

The fact that Jim Lees art still seems fresh and is essentially timeless, you knew at the time that this was something big.

I’m a 90s kid and THIS was the X-Men comic I fell in love with. Still one of the best X-Men runs of all time. Marvel had some of the best artist and storylines in the 90s

Joe Madureira’s run on the X-Men books got me hooked. His art is jaw-dropping good.

The best X-Men decade 🤘🏻

Favorite memories: 90s cartoon Age of Apocalypse X-Traitor Storyline/reveal Operation: Zero Tolerance

He's still the best X-Men artist! This is what inspired me to start learning how to draw comics the Marvel way!

X -Men creators are great.... Best story arc and attractive art... Which make me to read again n again.....

Literally my all time favorite, I remember my dad taking me to the comic shop and telling me to buy Superman comics but X-Men was and always will be my favorite.

Loving these short documentaries!

The 90's was the decade of Mutants.

Old school Marvel fan here. If you want people to become interested and even enthralled by comics again you should have comic book girl tell these stories. I have never heard a better story told than comic book girls telling of the dark Phoenix Saga. She puts your advertisers to Shame and keeps the art of Storytelling alive.

I got into the comics through the 90s X-men animated show. Claremont and Jim Lee's Uncanny and X-men issues were some of the first issues I ever bought and I still have a special place in my heart for events like Age of Apocalypse and the Claremont/Lee era of Uncanny is still possibly my favorite era of Uncanny if I had to pick one. Such a bummer it got cut short. When I think of my ideal X-men team I love the original team, the 70s team and the Outback team a lot but the Blue and Gold team (and the Jim Lee designs they got) just IS my x-men.

I just remember buying that #1 and being excited to follow the next iteration of the teams and then slowly getting disappointed in the stories being told ( especially early X-force) and then exhaustion from heavy handed crossover events and annual team reimagining.

I found X-Men #1 last week in PR Comic-Con.

I remember this. Had to get it! Still have most of the covers, I think.

PLEASE GET JIM LEE TO DRAW X-MEN AGAIN!!! Lets get this to 5K Likes!!!

Good to know that Claremont is still writing. 🙂

Xmen #1 story sort of crescendos with Fatal Attractions, which was about 30 issues in. You just don’t see that type of story telling today with everyone trying to fit a 12 issue trade paperback.

That big picture of the X-Men should really be a full size wallpaper.

Bout time The Xmen gets it proper due

I NEED to get this jumping on to the X-men. Lots has changed since last time I was reading. Cant wait to see what’s going to happen to the X-Men, especially now they will be part of the MCU in the near future.

The best age of x men

"A memento, for my friends, The X-Men!" Erik Magnus Lehnsherr aka Magneto

Awesome 😊👍

This video series is fantastic. I jumped on the bandwagon with X-Men #13 when I was 6 years old. :-)

X-Men better join MCU soon

Sería cool que sacaran otra serie animada como la de los 90. Sería un éxito. 😍

So cool. X-men my favorite characters bub

Nice Ela

We need the X-men reboot. That Brian singer butchered the X-men franchise

Make more doc videos like this pls

Wow from 1991 to 2019 and Idk how many years more but Avengers are ruling on Earth. I'm diehard fan of Marvel.

Please Marvel, do a another part of X-Men seminal moments on Days Of Future Past, The Dark Phoenix Saga and also Wolverine comics

So ready for the x men in the MCU

Yesterday just saw day of future past, The X men always hit me right on the feeling because they are the minority that doesn't always fit in just like me... Thank you

Byrne was the best artist and story teller for the X-Men. All the great stories they make movies from, come from that time frame.

I still feel the storyline before was just epic, everyone having to fight Legion and it went all over the comics and all over the world and then it just goes into Astroid M.

Watching this while drawing cyclops, really inspiring.

I love the Xmen, I became a fan in the 90s, based on these comics. But i hate the films focus on Wolverine. As a Cyclops fan, I want to see a team that's lead by him proper. If done properly, he could be the "Captain America" of the new Xmen films.

3 views And 27 likes Sounds about right 👌🏼

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talk about the hit arcade fighters mvc and so on

So nice of them to put John Byrne and Terry Austin on milk cartons when talking about the X-men. As much as I appreciate all of the talented folks who worked on the X-men throughout the years, where is the X-men in the early 1980s i.e. The X-men Take Off?

cool!

I got x-men 1991 #1.😀👍

And today I still see copies of X Men 1 in one dollar bins.

Love u logan

EXCELXER OR EXCELSIOR!!!!

Hey introduce them by multiverse , which is recently announced in spiderman far from home

Never forget the Acolyte called Chrome...

Traditional coloring and newsprint are much better than slick ink! It had texture and depth!

0:45 the panel Marvel doesn't want you to see lol

I would like to buy this in an omnibus. What do I search for? Please assist if you know.

Say are you trying to anymore animated movies on DVD like Iron Man Or guardians of the galaxy or even Doctor Strange

Wow

Jim Lee = X Men.

X-Men legends 3 please!!! And no console exclusive crap!

I honestly just came here to see what inspired Jim Lee to creating Gambit and Wilce Portacio to creating Bishop. Cuz these are my favourite X-Men, along with Wolverine. Unfortunately, didn’t get that. Fortunately this was interesting.

Comicbook girl 19 did it better.

No mention of speculators...

WHY are the Jim Lee omnibuses (vol. 1 and 2) out of print?????????????????????

There’s a documentary on the making of the X-men theme song 🔥🔥🔥🔥 check it out deff top 5 best theme song ever

X-Men number one was so successful they ousted Chris Claremont from the series to replace him with Jim Lee (Chris had been writing it for 16 years straight and built the X-lines popularity) then Jim Lee screwed off to co-found Image leaving Marvel with neither of those creative talents by that time the following year. Unsure why Mark Waid is in this, he wrote very few X-Men issues and is on the record in past interviews saying he hated it because he found the world of the X-Men too confusing.

Oh yeah, Jim Lee is a great artist! 😅😅

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I remember when X-men was good as well. I wish Disney X-men was nearly as good as the old Marvel.

Rip stan lee

I hope claremont and other classic xmen writers and artists are involved in any mcu xmen movie or show and not just feige.....I feel they would add alot to what might be just with feige a very vanilla type of xmen movie or show......hm this was around the time I got into comics so when it comes to marvel its xmen first...

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Mr Stan Lee 3:29 💖

Best part about this era, the new number 1s were just additional books each month adding to the story. No constant reboots, no liberal agendas being shoved down your throat. Also, every grocery store had a comic book rack. When those got taken out, so did 90% of your sales. Unfortunately you let Disney buy you out so it's only gonna be a further downward spiral from here on out. But hey, at least kids will know your reimagined characters from your bland, safe, movies, since they don't read

I have the poster on my door baby

I know the guy is controversial, but you’re just going to skip over John Byrne’s contributions?

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Compare this to the current X-Men and you'll end up with depression and 2 burnouts. I miss when X-Men was awesome. Jim Lee + Chris Claremont = Rembrandt level artistry!

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