User blog:Dhahn24/My first X-Men comic

I got this comic in the mid 70's while living in Italy. It was my first X-Men comic and turned me on to a whole new world of adventure. I thought having an X-Man die in the second comic of the new team was a bold move. The characters, Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Banshee, and Wolverine were still fairly new and it was very interesting to see them develop as a team in their second showing together since their first appearances in Giant-Size X-Men #1 (May, 1975) (with the exception of Wolverine who was introduced in 1974 in his inaugral debut against the Hulk.