![]() These X-Men live in a world where e-mail is familiar, but their abilities are not. Writer Jeff Parker is canny enough not to entrench the stories in the early 1960s, the era in which the characters first appeared, so providing a recognisable background for the younger readers at whom these single chapter stories are aimed. Here we have Angel, Beast, Cyclops, Iceman and Marvel Girl as they originally were a few weeks after first being gathered in Professor Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters. ![]() The germ of the idea for the later interaction between the original X-Men and their modern day counterparts surely originated with this surprisingly successful series of stories focusing on that first team. A broadly similar concept and some of the same characters are the connection, but this is no official tie-in. ![]() ![]() Five years following the original publication of the stories collected in this volume, the film bearing the same title was released. ![]()
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