REVIEW & REMEMBRANCE – Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum’s X-Men

Like most fanboy geeks who grew up in and remember well the 1970s, the All-New All-Different X-Men were a big part of my personal mythological landscape. Perhaps the strongest influence was exerted by the issues written by Chris Claremont and penciled by Dave Cockrum, numbers 94 – 107 of the series.

These issues ran from August, 1975 through October, 1977.  Those were cover dates, though, so it’s more like May, 1975 through July, 1977. The book was bi-monthly, which meant it c...