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"Album issues" of this type are among my favorites, but I believe that X-Men #138 is unique in how comprehensively it deals with the team's history.
Other issues that look backwards are...
Captain America #255, also drawn by JB and shot from his pencils if memory serves;
Iron Man #122, largely a retelling of his origin, but with a one-page "fast forward" taking us to the then-present day;
Hulk #227 which gives a somewhat impressionistic view of the Hulk's past from the Hulk's point-of-view;
Action Comics #500, in which Superman himself conducts a tour of the newly built Superman Museum and tells stories from his past;
Spider-Man #191 in which Peter visits Uncle Ben's grave and brings him up to date on how his life has been going;
Captain America #112 which looks back on his WWII career to the present. That was Kirby's last issue as the main artist on Cap until his return in 1976;
The Untold Legend of the Batman mini-series #1-3, in which Batman reviews his past to find clues to who is waging a psychological war upon him in the present;
The Secrets of the Legion of Super-Heroes mini-series #1-3, in which the team gathers and reviews their history to find which of them is secretly the child of Legion financier R.J. Brande.
Sub-Mariner #37, in which Roy Thomas and John Severin take us back through Namor's past from the Golden Age to the present.
I'm certain there must be others, but these are all that come to mind at the moment.
Edited by Brian Hague on 18 August 2018 at 8:41pm
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