User blog comment:Gipdac/The End of X-Factor/@comment-3406131-20130618215546/@comment-4889195-20130619060029

Waaaayyy back too many decades ago when I first started reading X-Men, there was only one book. I was having a hard enough time keeping all these characters I'd never heard of before (Wolverine wasn't in every other book back then) straight when there was only 8 or 9 of them. I can't imagine how daunting it must be to jump into comics from scratch now. I suppose it helps that super-heroes are more prevelent in pop culture (or that there even IS a pop-culture :)) and awesome web sites like this. Anyway, New Mutants was the first spin-off title and it just exploded from there. Thanks early 90s market explsion/implosion (Sarcasm alert)!