American Update: Marvel Graphic Novels including New Mutants Debut, X-Men, Spider-Man and more
*Vintage Magazine-Sized Comics: One of Marvel’s earlier experiments in the Graphic Novel format involved a numbered series of Magazine-Sized softcovers, imaginatively entitled Marvel Graphic Novel, featuring all-new epic-length stories of some of Marvel’s top characters. Several of these are added to our lists: New Mutants (#4), by Claremont and McLeod, which featured not only the debut of the eponymous team, but of four out of five of its membership – Cannonball, Moonstar, Wolfsbane, and Sunspot; the highly-acclaimed X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills (#5) by Claremont and Anderson, expanding on the comparison between mutants and other persecuted minorities in a way which couldn’t then be done in a Code-Approved comic; The Aladdin Effect by Shooter, Michelinie and LaRoque, a team-up between Marvel’s fighting females – Storm, Tigra, She-Hulk and the Wasp and two later unnumbered entries in the series: Daredevil by Miller and Sienkiewicz, contemporary with Miller’s popular run on DD’s series and Spider-Man: Hooky by Putney and Wrightson. New Mutants is available in first (VG £15) and 2nd (VF- £7) printings; X-Men (pictured) is VF/NM 1st print £25; Aladdin Effect is VF £7, Daredevil VF/NM £12.25 and Spider-Man VF/NM £13.75.