X-Men: The Hidden Years
| X-Men: The Hidden Years | |
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 Cover art for X-Men: The Hidden Years #1 |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Ongoing series |
| Publication date | December 1999 – September 2001 |
| Number of issues | 22 |
| Main character(s) | X-Men |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | John Byrne |
| Penciller(s) | John Byrne |
| Inker(s) | Tom Palmer |
| Letterer(s) | John Byrne |
| Colorist(s) | Gregory Wright |
| Editor(s) | Bob Harras Jason Liebig Lysa Hawkins Joe Quesada |
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X-Men: The Hidden Years was a comic book series set in the Marvel Comics universe, which starred the company's popular superhero team, the X-Men. It was written by John Byrne, with illustrations by Byrne and Tom Palmer.
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[edit] Publication history
The series attempted to fill in the period in the early 1970s when the original X-Men comic was publishing only reprints of earlier issues. The series was intended to fill in the team's chronology during the reprint issues of the original X-Men series (#67–93). According to Byrne, the series "was clearly finite, since [Giant-Size X-Men #1] was out there as an "end point" for my series, but the way I had it worked out, I could have easily done 100 issues or more before I had to send the team off to Krakoa."[1] However, as part of a retooling of the X-Men line, X-Men: The Hidden Years was cancelled, prematurely ending its run with issue #22.
Hidden Years featured the cast of the original X-Men and their villains, with a few appearances by characters who had not otherwise appeared at that point in time, such as Storm.
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A similar series was done for Spider-Man in the 1990s written by Kurt Busiek called Untold Tales of Spider-Man, adding stories to Spider-Man's earlier years. The series lasted 25 issues, 2 annuals, and 1 graphic novel.
A similar X-Men: First Class limited series, featuring the original X-Men, launched in September 2006 and spanned 8 issues. A special one-shot was released in May 2007. An ongoing series then launched in June 2007 and lasted 16 issues. Another one-shot was released in November 2008 branded "Giant-Sized X-Men: First Class", and the series was capped off with another limited series called "X-Men: First Class Finals" in February 2009.
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- X-Men #94 (November, 1999) (10 page story set between UXM #66 and THY #1)
- X-Men: The Hidden Years #1-22 (December, 1999 – September, 2001)
- X-Men: The Hidden Years - The Ghost and the Darkness (contains X-Men: The Hidden Years #1-7) ISBN-10: 1846531551
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[edit] References
- X-Men: The Hidden Years at the Grand Comics Database
- X-Men: The Hidden Years at the Comic Book DB
