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Penguin Classics Marvel Collection: X-Men TPB (2023 PC) comic books

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    Penguin Classics Marvel Collection: X-Men TPB (2023 PC) 1-1ST


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    1st printing. Collects The Uncanny X-Men (1963-2011 1st Series) #1, 3-5, 7-8, 14-16, 38, 41-42, and 44-46.

    Written by Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, and Gary Friedrich. Art by Jack Kirby, Werner Roth [as Jay Gavin], Don Heck, Paul Reinman, Chic Stone, Vince Colletta, Dick Ayers, George Roussos [as George Bell], George Tuska, and John Tartaglione. Foreword by Rainbow Rowell. Introduction by Ben Saunders. Series Edited by Ben Saunders.

    Illustrated throughout, The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents specially curated comic book anthologies of the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvels transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy.

    It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel has published groundbreaking visual narratives that sustain attention on multiple levels: as metaphors for the experience of difference and otherness; as meditations on the fluid nature of identity; and as high-water marks in the artistic tradition of American cartooning, to name a few. For the first time, these classic stories of some of the most iconic super heroes in the artistic tradition of American cartooning, to name a few.

    Softcover, 390 pages, full color.

    Cover price $28.00.