The Guinness World Records Book today presented writer Chris Claremont and Marvel Publishing COO, Jim Sokolowski, with the award for the highest selling single comic book for 1991's X-MEN #1!
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i thought they would of got a record for biggest/largest print run on a single issue anyway. not just the biggest selling comic of 1991.
I will always fondly remember that comic for all the variant covers it had way before variant covers were really something that was normal. It was also kind of an era based thing, I know being a kid in the 90's that the 90's Xmen stuff was very cool, and at least within all of my comicbook reading friends, this comic is a part of all our collections. it was, at its time, the ultimate ...
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I will always fondly remember that comic for all the variant covers it had way before variant covers were really something that was normal. It was also kind of an era based thing, I know being a kid in the 90's that the 90's Xmen stuff was very cool, and at least within all of my comicbook reading friends, this comic is a part of all our collections. it was, at its time, the ultimate introductory comic, and if you were like me, you wanted all 5 covers it had. the Magneto cover of it actually is hanging on a wall in my house just as any other piece of artwork would be, framed and all.
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The reason why they're recognising it now is probably because it took the majority of 20 years for it to reach that record.
jim lee artwork is great,chris claremont writing is incredible as well. he had the longest run on the x-men it must of been twenty years at least.the only problem is everyone brought this thinking it would be worth something in the future,but with an 8 million print run everyone who wanted a copy owned a copy.
I totally agree with lenrivv1. I was a kid when that comic book came out and you know why I bought it? Simply put, the artwork on the cover was the greatest piece of art I had seen at the time. There's no way that me and many of my friends picked up that comic because it was written by Chris Claremont. I'm not taking anything away from Claremont because he is extremely vital to making the ...
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I totally agree with lenrivv1. I was a kid when that comic book came out and you know why I bought it? Simply put, the artwork on the cover was the greatest piece of art I had seen at the time. There's no way that me and many of my friends picked up that comic because it was written by Chris Claremont. I'm not taking anything away from Claremont because he is extremely vital to making the X-Men what they are but that particular issue was sold by the millions thanks to Jim and his multiple cover layout. Marvel needs to do the right thing and give Jim Lee recognition as well regardless of his current role at DC.
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