JOHN BYRNE'S X-MEN ARTIFACT EDITION HC SDCC EXCLUSIVE S/N VARIANT

THIS BOOK MUST BE ORDERED INDEPENTLY FROM ANY OTHER BOOKS! Orders will be shipped the week of July 23rd.  Supplies are very limited and orders will be filled on a first come, first served basis.

John Byrne's run on the X-Men began with issue #108 and lasted until #143. The team of Claremont, Byrne, and Austin made the X-Men (which was already a hit series under Dave Cockrum) soar to the top of the charts in comics sales. They introduced Alpha Flight, and the created the near mythical storylines "The Dark Phoenix Saga" and "Days of Future Past." These and the rest of their stories remained burned into the memories of collective fandom to this day and have been the basis for several X-Men films. This Artifact Edition will include more than 100 pages of X-Men covers, splashes and pages from Byrne's X-Men run, all have been meticulously scanned from the original art and reproduced to the exacting Artist's Edition standards that have won IDW Publishing five highly coveted Eisner Awards (to date)! Debuting at this year’s SDCC is the variant cover featuring X-Men #133, where Wolverine goes berseker-style on the Hellfire Club! Limited to 100 units, each with a bound-in signature plate signed and numbered by John Byrne.

As this book requires its own box for secure shipping, an additional shipping charge will be incurred if it is ordered with other products.