Penguin Classics Marvel Collection #6

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Collects The Uncanny X-Men (1963-2011 1st Series) #1, 3-5, 7-8, 14-16, 38, 41-42, and 44-46. Foreword by Rainbow Rowell. Introduction by Ben Saunders. Series Edited by Ben Saunders.

Illustrated throughout, The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents specially curated comic book anthologies of the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvels transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy.

It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel has published groundbreaking visual narratives that sustain attention on multiple levels: as metaphors for the experience of difference and otherness; as meditations on the fluid nature of identity; and as high-water marks in the artistic tradition of American cartooning, to name a few. For the first time, these classic stories of some of the most iconic super heroes in the artistic tradition of American cartooning, to name a few.