No Claws, No Bamfs, No Shatterstar – Marvel Masterworks X-Men Volume 4

This volume includes issues 32 – 42 of the original run of X-Men, published between July, 1967and March, 1968. This span marks a transition from the X-Men as they were created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby—Students in matching yellow and black (or was it blue? It’s hard to tell in comics of that era) uniforms—to the four-color team made famous on down the line by Roy Thomas, Neal Adams and Tom Palmer.

The first nine issues in the collection comprise the end of the X-Men’s first epic storyline,...