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    The X-Men are a superhero team of mutants founded by Professor Charles Xavier. They are dedicated to helping fellow mutants and sworn to protect a world that fears and hates them.

    What was your favorite Era in the X-MEN History stories?

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    Poll What was your favorite Era in the X-MEN History stories? (46 votes)

    1960's? 2%
    1970's? 4%
    1980's? 50%
    1990's? 17%
    2000's? 22%
    2010-Now? 4%

    This poll is all about which decade contained the most quantity & quality X-Men stories. I had to list the last 15 years even though I knew neither the 2000's or 2010's had a chance of winning. Even though I loved House of M and Messiah Complex, not much else is worth telling about in comparison to some of the most meaningful classic X-Men stories.

    The 90's get a bad rep in regards to comics. When we think of the 90's, we think of guys with muscles growing off muscles but on the contrary to almost everything else, the X-Men had a very successful decade in the 90's, w/ tons of awesome stories still memorable till this day.

    But I'm going with the 80's.

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    #1 Koays  Online

    Early 2000's up till 08 had New X-Men(Morrison), Astonishing(Whedon), XFactor(David), Academy X/New X-Men(KY), and X-Force (KY).

    Its nowhere near as deep as the 80's run, but it can put up a better fight then the 90's.

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    70's baby!! I love Marvel in the 70's all around.

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    Nothing compares to 80s X-Men:

    Days of Future Past

    I, Magneto

    Brood Saga

    Wolverine's Wedding

    Morlocks

    Mutant Massacre

    New Mutants

    Magik min series

    Wolverine mini series

    God Loves, Man Kills

    Apocalypse

    Dazzler

    Mohawk Storm

    Brown/Tan Wolverine Costume

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    Just imagine those 80's stories with the art technology and coloring of today. That would make it even better. 80's was the best with the 2000's coming in second. The convoluted nature of the 90's stories is what killed it. Plus the terminator body builders everywhere

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    #6 Koays  Online

    Ok but who picked the 60s? Lol

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    Late 70s-mid 80s.

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    90s, so confusing but awesome

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    90's so simply back then

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    80's. The 90's nearly ruined comics. Not just Marvel either.

    Between all the EXTREME "heroes" and the half nekkid heroines. Drove me bonkers. Nearly killed Psylocke for me, she still hasn't recovered from that awful decade. The 2000's saw some improvements, until the Era of the Event became Marvels big thing.

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    @koays said:

    Ok but who picked the 60s? Lol

    Lmao

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    #13  Edited By JCG79

    The era I first started with of course, which would be the 1980s. After that, the 2000s.

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    80's followed by 2010 to now followed by the 2000's

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    #15  Edited By adamTRMM

    80s as the most definitive.

    Followed by 2000s with its pragmatism and extremism, and stop right at AvX... It never recovered since then.

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    #16  Edited By John Valentine

    @koays said:

    Early 2000's up till 08 had New X-Men(Morrison), Astonishing(Whedon), XFactor(David), Academy X/New X-Men(KY), and X-Force (KY).

    Its nowhere near as deep as the 80's run, but it can put up a better fight then the 90's.

    You say all the right things.

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    The 80's for sure. aside for AOA the 90's were a bad time for the X-men

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    1. the Kitty Pryde era (1980-1987)

    2. the Morrison/Whedon era (2001-2008)

    3. 1993-1994 (Legacies, Fatal Attractions, Phalanx Covenant, Generation X, plus the '80-87 period was still in print in X-men Classic)

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    1. the Kitty Pryde era (1980-1987)

    2. the Morrison/Whedon era (2001-2008)

    3. 1993-1994 (Legacies, Fatal Attractions, Phalanx Covenant, Generation X, plus the '80-87 period was still in print in X-men Classic)

    1994- the wedding of jean grey and cyclops :PPPPPP lol (that comicbook cost me $15 at my comicbook store)

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    1994- the wedding of jean grey and cyclops :PPPPPP lol (that comicbook cost me $15 at my comicbook store)

    I got X-Men #30 for $2.79 (Canadian), which, at the time, seemed like quite a gouge.

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    @hopesummersforthefuture said:

    1994- the wedding of jean grey and cyclops :PPPPPP lol (that comicbook cost me $15 at my comicbook store)

    I got X-Men #30 for $2.79 (Canadian), which, at the time, seemed like quite a gouge.

    yeah if its a book that is in demand it will cost more

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    #23  Edited By Tommy_X

    Had to vote for the 90's simply because of TAS and AoA and the fact that that's when I got into comics and the 90's X-Men line ups are the most classic to me since that's the only decade when all the big names were present at once under the same roof.

    Now that I think about it 00's might've been slightly better since we got 2 x-cartoons and we had all off these: Astonishing (Whedon), XFactor (David), Academy X/New X-Men (KY), Exiles (Before Claremont), X-Force (KY) and Messiah Trilogy wasn't awful, in fact it was pretty good over all. But I already voted so too late to change that.

    Not at all surprised that this decade struggles to beat even the 60's (which only had new X-Men stories for about half of it) or 70's (also only had new x-stories for half of the decade) since only really memorable story from this decade has been UXF (Remender) and even that fizzled out at the end due to Marvel wanting him off the x-books and to the Avengers books which ended so well for everyone!

    I'm a bit curious about what happened to all 90's fans. It seems like nowadays EVERYONE agrees that comics sucked back then but in those days they sold like nothing else. I know that speculators inflated the numbers but all those sales couldn't have come from them alone, there had to be comics fans. So where are all the fans of those ridiculous EXTREME anti-heroes with steroid muscles, BFGs and pouches who loved the beefcake and cheesecake of the 90's pin up issues and trading cards? Did they all just give up comics or is it just that many of them are afraid to admit that they loved those back then?

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    Mid 80's - early 2000's.

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    1980's. That was a really progressive era that benefitted from having been written by one writer for so long. Claremont, Simonson, and the other writers really explored concepts that are considered new today, but the readership was small enough that no one noticed how ground breaking these ideas were: a 'team' that didn't have a stable membership, superheroes that didn't really engage in superheroics, superheroes who were killed/incapacitated/retired and stayed that way for years with actual plot references to their whereabouts, superhero teams getting "wiped out", "breather" issues, etc.

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    #26  Edited By Dman1366

    1980's for certain. Between the actual team dynamic between the X-Men, New Mutants and Excalibur, you just can't beat that.

    Then comes early 2008 with Whedon, Morrison, and Kyle\Yost.

    Then the 70's.

    Then 2010+

    Then 60's.

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    The 90's for me, Not only was this the period I got into Marvel Comics but also the period that produced great stories like X-Tinction Agenda, X-Cutioner's Song, Fatal Attractions, Blood Ties, Phalanx Covenant, Legion Quest & Age of Apocalypse, Onslaught And Operation Zero Tolerance.

    I might be remembering the 90's through rose-colored spectacles/glasses, but I would still put some of these storylines among the X-Men's Best.

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    as someone who started reading in the early 90's, I'm still baffled by how popular Age of Apocalypse is.

    not because the concept wasn't cool as hell (I still think it's a cool concept), but the art and overall execution.. to say nothing of it being the start of the unavoidable mega-hype event (let's drag out an issue of What If...? for 6 months in all our best-selling books!).. was really just such a dip in quality after the great work done in '93 and '94..

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    bring back jim leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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    @sprior93 said:

    Nothing compares to 80s X-Men:

    Days of Future Past

    I, Magneto

    Brood Saga

    Wolverine's Wedding

    Morlocks

    Mutant Massacre

    New Mutants

    Magik min series

    Wolverine mini series

    God Loves, Man Kills

    Apocalypse

    Dazzler

    Mohawk Storm

    Brown/Tan Wolverine Costume

    This^^

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    bring back jim leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

    Gods no. He's ruined many of the X-men enough that fans can't get past him...

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    80's. Mohawk Storm was the best. She was such a great leader back then.

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