Hope

Here's a sketch cover for Uncanny X-Men #1 (2011) featuring Hope Summers by Carlos Pacheco.

Operation: Zero Tolerance

All apologies for the image quality, but this is the best version I could find of the Operation: Zero Tolerance promo by Carlos Pacheco. I don't think Cecilia Reyes ever wore this face mask in the comics.

Carlos Pacheco Week

This Carlos Pacheco cover for X-Men 63 featuring Sebastian Shaw and Jean Grey was never published.

Classic X-Men Week Finale - Carlos Pacheco

 From the One Minute Later Gallery at Comicartfans:

"Recipe for a Carlos Pacheco One Minute Later:

Start with an unpublished X-Men pencil pin-up by Carlos. Find Jesus Merino (via their mutual art agent) and have Jesus ink the pin-up. Next, meet Carlos in person at Wizard World Philly 2011 and explain to him the One Minute Later concept and show him the One Minute Later sketchbook. Watch as Carlos tranforms the piece into Classic X-Men One Minute Later by adding FOUR characters (Angel, Beast, Ice-Man and Havok) and tightens Nightcrawler. Viola!!!!"

The commission was based on this piece which appeared as an X-Men poster, and a double page spread in X-Men: The Ultimate Guide.

I could not find a good scan of the poster, but this cover for Dolmen, a foreign language publication is much better in quality.  (Click for a larger version)

Here is a link to the One Minute Later gallery:

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=779747&GSub=118778

Update!  Here's a better version of the image from X-Men: The Ultimate Guide.  Right click to view the larger image, and please pardon the seam in the middle of the scan.

Commission Friday

 A Bishop Sketch by Carlos Pacheco:

All New, All Different...

Welcome to The Unpublished X-Men, a collection of rare X-Men art.  While this site will feature a lot of unpublished material, it will also show promotional art, commissions and material not published in the main X-Men books.  I had planned on starting with Giant-Size X-Men #1 from 1975, and working my way forward, backward, and sideways throughout the history of the X-men.  To begin with, I would like to feature a number of covers based on the design of Gil Kane and Dave Cockrum's popular cover:

Here's the original iconic design by Gil and Dave.

This What If? cover turns the formula around by featuring the original team.

This Marvel Age cover does the same, but they left out Jean Grey,

since her return from the dead was supposed to be a big surprise

for X-Factor #1.  Note the costume designs, which would change

before that issue came out.

Uncanny X-Men Annual #10 featured Art Adams designs for the

New Mutants, who had to come to the rescue of the X-Men.

Uncanny X-Men 254 by Jim Lee featured the X-Men supporting cast defending Muir Island from the Reavers.

Excalibur 45 shows the Technet as the "N-Men" by Alan Davis.

X-Men 45 by Andy Kubert shows the X-Babies reinvented for the 90's.

This Carlos Pacheco cover shows the new mutants who joined

the team all to briefly in X-Men 70.

X-Statix #1 by Peter Milligan shows old and new members of the ever changing roster.

X-Men Deadly Genesis by Marc Silvestri shows the team of

Giant-Size X-Men #1 as skeletons, an eerie foreshadowing of

the story of Professor Xavier's recruiting a new team of X-Men 

who were destined to die.

Giant-Size X-Men #3 by Dave Cockrum and John Cassaday, sadly,

may be Dave's last X-Men work.  After Dave did this cover, he 

became too sick to complete the interior story.  That story was

 completed by Neal Adams out of respect for Dave.

X-Men Legacy 233 has a comical Deadpool variant cover.

The cover of the Uncanny X-Men Omnibus features a painted version of the original cover by John Watson.

Astonishing X-Men 32 gives us a Marvel Superhero Squad

variant cover.

X-Men Giant-Size shows the very first X-Men in their original

costumes.  The story takes place in the past and the present.

Giant-Size Defenders #1 may be the only cover on this list not X-Men related.  There are many other covers and parodies of the original cover, and they will be featured in later posts.  For now, I've concentrated on covers produced by Marvel Comics.  Add a comment if you know of any that I've missed!