Professor X is dead! The X-Men have gone their separate ways! In the
late 1960s, searching for a way to reinvigorate its poorest-selling
super heroes, Marvel was trying anything and everything. With the title
on the verge of cancellation, writer Roy Thomas and artist Neal Adams
suddenly clicked - and the rest is history! Their epic evolution of the
X-Men defines the team to this day. Adams' lavish and dynamic visuals
and Thomas' challenging and contemporary stories combined in a book that
throbbed with the pulse of the times. Their iconic stories collected
here introduce Cyclops' brother Havok, the vampiric villain Sauron, the
Savage Land Mutates and X-Man-to-be Sunfire! Not to mention the Living
Pharaoh, a classic team-up with Ka-Zar...and don't forget the return of
Magneto!
Vol. 3: X-Men (1963) 46-66; material from Ka-Zar (1970) 2-6, Marvel
Tales (1966) 30