Show Notes Provided by Arco Esposito

One of the words that has entered our lexicon in the last decade is “generational”, which denotes something that happens rarely per generation. In the world of comics we can all name favorite stories that have touched us in the best of ways, but how many of them can be said to have actually changed the industry itself? Action Comics #1, Detective Comics #27, Fantastic Four #1… the standard bearers of stories that have shaped our beloved medium. However, can we ever doubt that Giant Size X-Men #1 also belongs on that list? How can it not? All one has to know is that Marvel STOPPED printing original X-Men stories from Issue 67-93, giving us only reprints of earlier stories. With the release of 1975’s Giant Size X-Men, the world was introduced to the new team, a cast of colorful characters we had never seen before (or in Wolverines case, only once before) and with them came the adventures made us fall in love with them. Join James, Joe and myself, Arco, your humble bastion of mutant knowledge as we pay homage to the beginning of what current and future comic lovers will no doubt look back on as the day the X-Men truly arrived.