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Michael Penn
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This was given to me when I was a tiny tot, still too young to read...

Cyclops instantly became my favorite X-Man and one of my favorite characters ever...!
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Andrew W. Farago
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Come to think of it, this must have been the first book I owned that featured the X-Men:




I'll bet that this jumped out at me at the five-and-dime thanks to their appearance on Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. 

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My older brother and his friend were actively buying comics a few months before I was and they were into X-MEN (I never really was an X-Men guy).  This is the earliest issue I'm pretty sure my older brother had and would've bought new off the rack:



That's make it by proxy also by first exposure to the true X-MEN comics. 
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Dale Lerette
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I had read other issues before. But this was the first one I bought. that really pulled me in. I saw JB's work on Captain America before -- not sure which came first. But the artwork on the inside of this X-Men was unlike anything I had seen before. It really made me take notice of his talent. 



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John Popa, I do believe I had the same first issue of X-Men!
I still have it, but it's not signed though. Just beat up.
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These were my first exposure to the "All New X-Men". I had seen issue 111 in the Newsstand a few months previously but I thought it was "WEIRD" and did not understand the Circus Freaks thing going on... (I was 10 years I think)

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Issue One from Son of Origins 


Then with in an hour I went to a 7/11 and fond my first issue
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Phillip L Lightfoot
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X-Men #75.  Reprinting #27.  Still think The Mimic is cool.
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Matt Hawes
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The time I first discovered the X-Men, it was in the Fireside trade paperback reprint collection "Marvel's Greatest Super-Hero Battles" (1978). That book reprints "X-Men" (volume one) #3, with the Blob.

The next time I recall seeing the X-Men, it was in Marvel Treasury #8 (1977) "The Astonishing Spider-Man," which reprinted "Marvel Team-Up" #4 with the original X-Men (minus their outfits, no less), and Morbius.

I was of the age that the "new" X-Men should have been my first exposure to the team, but it wasn't due to these reprints. My first issue of "The Uncanny X-Men" was issue #122 (1979). One of JB's issues, too! I found the title just in time for the beginnings of the Dark Phoenix saga.

I remember looking at the corner box with the headshots of the new X-Men and thinking how strange, in a fascinating way, they looked. I was used to seeing "blank eyes" on masked heroes, but outside of Little Orphan Annie I wasn't accustomed to seeing characters drawn like that.

I think we all take it for granted these days, especially after the early Image guys, but the only hero, masked or unmasked, with pupils in that corner box was Banshee. Heh.

Anyway, I loved the comic, and the X-Men, old and new (then). And I LOVED that artwork! I had seen JB's work before, but that magical combination of Byrne-Austin was the greatest thing to me. I loved the subtle things in that issue, too: The way JB drew the holes Wolverine's claws left in the console running the Danger Room, and the ripples in Wolverine's pants as he was running. As a young artist, it was those little details that stood out to me as much as the action panels and such.


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X-Men #137. That was a grabber!  
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Guys, FIRST means ONE.
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