Blue Iceman

I posted the blue Iceman because I've never seen a blue Iceman before, and, to be honest with you, I wanted to see a blue Iceman.

Seventh Line-Up

Another X-Men Line-Up, this time the Chris Claremont and Jim Lee version of the team circa Uncanny X-Men #275.  Art is by Tom Morgan and Josef Rubinstein, and you can check out the previous team rosters from The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Master Edition here:

http://unpublishedxmen.blogspot.com/search/label/Line-up 

Jim Lee - Nightcrawler

Jim Lee drew Nightcrawler only a few times during his X-Men run, so here's his version of the fuzzy elf!

X-Men WildC.A.T.s

This promo image for the X-Men WildC.A.T.s crossover is among Jim Lee's last official X-Men work.

He drew some covers for the crossover, and he drew issue #2, which featured the Neal Adams era X-Men.

Jim Lee and Scott Williams

We're getting a late start on this year's Jim Lee week - but I think this image more than makes up for it.  The original art (seen below) remained unfinished for some years until Scott Williams was commissioned to ink it.

Note Jean Grey's unused costume design - the original art was produced during the time when the X-Men #1 team roster and costume designs had not yet been finalized.  This could have originally been intended as a promo piece for the new series.

Havok!

Here's a most excellent Havok sketch by Jim Lee.

Mike Collins

This cover for Uncanny X-Men #264 by interior artist Mike Collins never saw print, the published issue had a cover by Jim Lee.

Jim Lee week concludes - Psylocke and Wolverine

Here's something a little different from Jim Lee - a beautiful watercolor painting of Wolverine and Psylocke.

Jim Lee Week continued - A rare card

I don't recall seeing the art from this Jim Lee autograph card anywhere else, perhaps it was done exclusively for this card set.

Jim Lee week

All three posts this week will feature Jim Lee art.  Starting off, here is an unused cover sketch for X-Men #7.

And here is the final published cover, based on the same general idea:

Of course, the original cover sketch was an homage to Todd McFarlane's famous cover for The Incredible Hulk #340.

Unpublished Tales

This article at StackExchange.com examines Chris Claremont's original plans and the unused team roster for X-Men #1 in 1991:

http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5737/did-chris-claremont-have-to-change-his-long-term-plans-for-the-x-men-in-the-earl

This goes along with the unpublished Jim Lee piece we featured here:

http://unpublishedxmen.blogspot.com/2012/04/day-three.html

Rare but not unpublished Jim Lee

Here is the cover for Speakeasy Magazine #119, featuring a Jim Lee promotional image.

I don't think this art was ever published anywhere else.

Day Three

Here is a promotional piece for X-Men #1 in 1991.  This was a possible team lineup for that book before the final details were hammered out.

The art was finally used for the recently published X-Men by Chris Claremont and Jim Lee Omnibus. 

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!