Marvel Masterworks: Uncanny X-Men - Volume 6 [Hardcover]

Marvel Comics (Author)

Book Description

Series: Marvel Masterworks | Publication Date: February 13, 2008

The X-Men return for another milestone Marvel Masterworks of beginnings, endings and maybe even the beginning of the end! Chris Claremont and John Byrne raised a rag-tag group of mutants from a burning ember to an all-out firestorm that topped the world of comics. And they'll ride out that flame with one of the most influential X-Men stories of all-"Days of Future Past!" Feared, hated and now on the road to extinction, Marvel's Children of the Atom face a bleak future of mutant concentration camps and a world where heroes are a thing of days gone past. Only by leaping back through time can Kitty Pryde's future self hope to stop the events that created this dystopian nightmare! Claremont and Byrne close out their classic run together with a fan-favorite Kitty Pryde holiday tale, but things only pick up from there with the return of the man who first delineated the all-new, all-different X-Men-Dave Cockrum! Cockrum and Claremont put their team in a slow-pressure cooker with Arcade, Dr. Doom, Garokk and then blows its top with the return of Magneto in a double-sized anniversary extravaganza! Featuring guest-appearances by Spider-Woman, Dazzler, not to mention the debut of Mystique's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, there's no question this one's for the ages!

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Marvel (February 13, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785130136
• ISBN-13: 978-0785130130
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #926,239 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Days of Future Past and other reads, July 31, 2010

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This review is from: Marvel Masterworks: Uncanny X-Men - Volume 6 (Hardcover)

First and foremost - I ordered this from "Deepuppystore", and the provided great care in their packaging - the product was very secure and in perfect condition.

Now for the book itself. This is a hardcover collection of nine Uncanny X-Men issues: 141-150. Some might consider the stories within the nine issues to be dated and not altogether important to continuity, and I'd be lying if I didn't say I feel the same way about at least a few of them. The weakest point of this book covers the span of three issues, where Doctor Doom abducts the X-Men in what seems like an amalgamation of some very cheesy James Bond movies of the 70s. Even so, this collection begins with "Days of Future Past", one of the most audacious stories of its time, depicting an alternate future (the first ever presented in X-Men) that, at first glance would seem derivative of the first Terminator movie, had it not been written three years earlier. Within that two-issue event, we are introduced to the "new" (second) Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, led by Mystique, and get a good grasp of what was to follow in the 80s of X-Men. Kitty Pryde was introduced in the Dark Phoenix Saga, the event that came directly before this. It is here that we see her come into a role of her own and become a fan-favorite all the way up till the last issue of this collection, where she squares off with Magneto.

While the price may be subject to change, I bought this for $49.78. It is almost impossible to find a mint condition trade paperback (or hardcover) of "Days of Future Past" for less than $80, so you're already getting a good deal as it is. I recommend X-Men fans who are serious about their collections SHOULD do the same. The 80s was arguably the greatest decade in X-Men history, and in this nine-issue collection are some of it's best stories. Casual readers may find this wanting, but for collectors, this is a must-have.