While these were high profile, it’s interesting that the cover was next to impossible to find, a stark contrast to the abundance of #1’s lying around in 1991. The panels for this cover were originally released as teasers for the new book with their inclusion of some characters not normally associated with the X-Men line (i.e Spider-Man, Blade, She-Hulk). The image by Paco Medina features characters bursting through the panels of the Jim Lee cover, but lacks some of the dynamic of the image it references. This month’s latest X-Men #1 upped the stakes by featuring a five-panel-gatefold as one of its various covers.
In many ways this was an homage to 1963’s X-Men #1 with the team attacking Magneto, just with a much larger cast. Not long after the trio of posters, we got another panorama image from Lee in the wrap-around-double-gatefold cover to 1991’s X-Men #1. I may have actually found an improvement when I came across this amazing recolored tribute image by Marc Borstel. It seems like a lifetime ago and I wasn’t even able to find an image of the original in my searching. Released in 1990 to tease what was in store for the X-Men in the coming year, the center panel could be found hanging wherever I was calling home for many years. It all began with Jim Lee’s X-Men triptych poster set. What is it about these things that I love so much? This shouldn’t come as much of a surprise since I’m a big fan, but the image got me to thinking about the long history of ultra-wide X-Men images I seem to go crazy for. Of all the big announcements coming out of this year’s San Diego Comic Con, it was a teaser image for the coming line of X-Men titles that grabbed most of my attention.
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