198. X-Men 1 by Chris Claremont and Jim Lee

Show notes provided by Arco Esposito

Picture it; it’s 1990, you’re Todd McFarlane and you just put out the comic that would solidify you as a household name while also selling a record 2.5 million issues! Nothing can beat that feeling right? Unless of course you’re Jim Lee and Chris Claremont and it’s 1991, because then you say “hold my beer” and release the best selling comic OF ALL TIME with the relaunch of X-Men #1 Folks, today we invite you to journey back 30 years as we take you to that amazing time when you not only had to have that issue, but you had to buy ALL FIVE DIFFERENT COVERS of it!! Yes, it was about the quality and the quantity at the same time and we were there for it!! Join James and Joe as they host returning X-Men aficionados Shareef McIntosh and Arco Esposito as they delve, dissect and debate the awesomeness of this issue (no debate really) and its impact on not only the Marvel universe but on the comics industry as a whole. With X-Men 97 blowing our minds and Deadpool 3 about to do the same, its definitely a great time to be alive for the X-fam, so listen in as we talk about what started this glorious, golden AGE OF X!