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Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men, Vol. 7

(Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men #7)

Steve Englehart,

Gerry Conway,

Stan Lee,

Archie Goodwin,

Tom Sutton (Illustrator),

Gil Kane (Illustrator),

Herb Trimpe (Illustrator),

Bob Brown (Illustrator),

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3.29 · Rating details · 73 ratings · 13 reviews

Collects Amazing Adventures #11-17, Marvel Team-Up #4, The Amazing Spider-Man #92, The Incredible Hulk #150, 161,
plus the covers to The X-Men #67-80 and Annual #1-2

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Hardcover, 240 pages

Published October 15th 2008 by Marvel

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Apr 11, 2020 Paul E. Morph rated it liked it

Shelves: comics-read-in-2020

This book collects the Beast’s short-lived solo run in Amazing Adventures plus a few odd issues guest-starring the rest of the X-Men published between the time their own book was cancelled and when it was relaunched with a mostly new cast and became the comicbook juggernaut it is today.

The quality’s not great, to be honest. I don’t know whose idea it was to give the Beast his own solo book and transform him into his now-familiar furry self but Steve Englehart seems to change his mind every five ...more

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Apr 19, 2015 Labyrinth Rossiter rated it it was ok

Shelves: graphic-novels, xmen, comics-read-2015

Amazing Adventures 11-17 explains Beast's "devolving" mutation from humanoid in the early issues of X-Men to the blue furred "gorilla." While working for Brand corporation, he attempts to cure himself and instead causes himself to sprout the blue fur. Of note, he has a confrontation with Iron Man. Out of sheer desperation, he uses costume make-up to make himself latex head and hands to wear, but by the end of this short series, he has revealed himself to Angel. The series also begins the pattern ...more

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Sep 19, 2019 Hilary rated it really liked it

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I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. I don't usually go for older comics, but, for all its melodramatic framework, this turned out to be a refreshingly nuanced character piece, and it seemed to play with tired tropes in a cool way. Got me interested in reading more Englehart.

We interviewed Steve Englehart for a special episode of Previously on X-Men.
You can find it here: http://previously-on-x-men.libsyn.com... ...more

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Jun 07, 2016 Heather Fryling rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I love old X-Men.

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Jun 19, 2020 Julian rated it liked it

A miscellany of mediocre stuff that leans toward some pretty good Englehart writing in the Beast stories, but is filled out by some workaday insertions of Spiderman, Marvel Teamup and Hulk bits.

Art-wise, highlights are the Tom Sutton art on the Beast stories, particularly when inked by Mooney and the lovely Trimpe/Severin issue of Hulk.

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Oct 16, 2019 Nicolas rated it really liked it

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This felt more like a classic monster movie than the X-Men and I was digging it.

Tune in to my chat with author Steve Englehart here on the All the Books Show: https://soundcloud.com/allthebooks/in... ...more

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Jan 23, 2021 Adam Graham rated it liked it

Set after the X-Men went into reprints and before Giant X-men #1 made them legends, this book collects a guest appearances by individual X-men in Amazing Spider-man and the Incredible Hulk, and also multiple X-Men guest-starring in Marvel Team-up.

The comics are okay. Marvel Team-up #4 is probably the best story and the X-men do take the lead since Spidey's out of commission for most of the book. The Beast's solo series is not bad, but what he was going through felt very derivative of what the In ...more

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Jan 07, 2020 Martin Maenza rated it liked it

Shelves: comics, super-hero, marvel

I was a fan of the furry version of the Beast from reading the 70’s Avengers. So this was a nice way to check out how Hank McCoy ended up that way. This was a solid run of issues.

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Feb 07, 2021 Graham rated it liked it

A fascinating look at Marvel trying to figure out what to do with the X-Men after they’d essentially been cancelled. That said, I don’t think I’ll ever read it again.

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Jan 03, 2014 Christopher Rush rated it liked it · review of another edition

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I understand this comes at a very strange time in Marvel history, when the X-Men are moribund and not the powerhouse of today, and while the focus on Hank McCoy in his own title is wholly deserved, the creative team does no justice to his character or his story. I grew up with Hank McCoy already in his furry form, so I was originally surprised when I learned he wasn't always like that. Now that I have finally read through the issues up to this point, I was disappointed in the actual transformati I understand this comes at a very strange time in Marvel history, when the X-Men are moribund and not the powerhouse of today, and while the focus on Hank McCoy in his own title is wholly deserved, the creative team does no justice to his character or his story. I grew up with Hank McCoy already in his furry form, so I was originally surprised when I learned he wasn't always like that. Now that I have finally read through the issues up to this point, I was disappointed in the actual transformation. I know the Marvel Universe has a number of similarly-transformed characters (The Thing, especially), who no longer look the way they used to, and though the premise of McCoy transforming himself into a furry beast because of his research and whatnot is plausible, it just felt off. Conway does a fine job with the transformation issue, and the pain of McCoy's new life is depicted quite well throughout the issue with the off-putting atmosphere from the beginning until the end, so perhaps it is mostly the sadness for Hank that irritates. Plus, if he is as smart as he supposedly is, surely he would have developed a counteragent before trying some magically-timed Cinderella-like potion on himself. Steve Englehart truly does the greatest disservice to Hank through this series. It's bad enough the storyline is cancelled without any meaningful resolution (likely not Englehart's fault, admittedly), but the characterization is rather wretched. At first, we are willing to follow Englehart's revision of Hank's character, as his vocabulary and demeanor embrace the bestial identity of the new Hank McCoy ... but a few issues later Hank has resumed his humanity and diction. This is certainly a positive mark, in one sense, but the immediate abandonment of the character direction replaced with the early '60s flippancy and dialogue in the dark days of the X-Men are grating, at best. One gets the suspicion Englehart was itching to revisit the pirate ship episode if the series lasted any longer. At least he doesn't end every sentence with an exclamation mark, though he does feel the need to bring back old characters/villains just long enough to have them commit suicide by the end of each issue. The other issues featuring Iceman, Polaris, and Havok are equally steps in the wrong direction, though on the whole we are willing to forgive the egregious disrespect the creative staffs display for their subjects, since we are just glad to spend some time with these characters again. This collection definitely gets worse at it goes along, which is probably why the series was cancelled so soon, but it does have many fine moments and is rife with great possibilities ... which never seemed to materialize, sadly. What happens next to Hank and Linda and the Brand Corporation? I wish I knew. This collection does not tell us. It's worth reading, certainly, especially to fill in the missing gaps between the first demise of the X-Men and Giant-size X-Men #1, but it will not answer all your questions. ...more

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Nov 06, 2013 Rich Meyer rated it it was amazing

Shelves: read-in-2013

For being an anthology of fairly disparate Comics, this masterworks volume is surprisingly readable. It centers mostly on my favorite original X-Man, the Beast, reprinting the short-lived solo series from Amazing Adventures. There's also two issues of Incredible Hulk, an Amazing Spider-Man and an early Marvel Team-Up in this volume. ...more

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Mar 15, 2011 Jessica rated it did not like it

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I can't help it. I really don't like Beast's early solo adventure and I have to force my way through it. I don't know why that is and I don't want to reread it to find out. ...more

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Jun 23, 2015 Kerri rated it liked it

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Amazing Adventures #11-17 3 stars each. #17 reprints Beast's origin with a new introduction and conclusion.
Marvel Team-Up #4 3 stars.
Incredible Hulk #150 2 stars, #161 3 stars. ...more

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Steve Englehart went to Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. After a stint in the Army, he moved to New York and began to write for Marvel Comics. That led to long runs on Captain America, The Hulk, The Avengers, Dr. Strange, and a dozen other titles. Midway through that period he moved to California (where he remains), and met and married his wife Terry.

He was fi ...more