100th post - Apologies to Brent Anderson

In honor of the 100th blog post on The Unpublished X-Men, I would like to take a moment to thank all the viewers who have made this blog a success.  I'm glad to see so many people share an interest in the behind-the-scenes rarities that have I have gathered here.  I would also like to take a moment to present the original art I used for the banner image at the top of the blog.  Here is the original cover to The Marvel Comics Index by Brent Anderson.  Unfortunately, I had to make some changes to the original art to make it fit into a banner.  Nightcrawler and the logo have been moved down, and the Angel's wings were much too big to fit into the image without some tucking and folding.  The red X was removed, and the original X-Men were resized.

In addition, I had the good fortune to purchase a printer's proof of the original black and white lineart a few years back, and I am presenting it here for the first time.  Right click on the images to view them with more detail.

Once again, thanks for coming back to visit time and again, rest assured that I have many more rarely seen works of art in store for the next 100 posts! 

X-Men Animated

Steven E. Gordon did character designs for both theX-Men Evolution and the Wolverine and the X-Men animated series.  Here's a design for Psylocke.  You can find more of Steven's work here:

http://stevenegordon.blogspot.com/

Two Toms

The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men contained some great interior pieces which I will be featuring from time to time.  This one comes from issue #3 published in 1987.  Art is by Tom Grindberg and Tom Palmer.

Ultimate X-Men

I'm not completely sure which issue this unpublished Ultimate X-Men cover was for.

All New, All Defunct

As our month of John Byrne art draws to a close, we still have several more months worth of material!  Until the next John Byrne month, we leave you with this re-interpretation of Uncanny X-Men #114's cover.  Fear not, readers, we will be back next week with much more Unpublished X-Men!

http://www.artofjohnbyrne.com/gallery/commissions/commissions-covers/commissions-xmc/XM114-new.jpg.php

Dave Cockrum Tribute

This image was done as a tribute to Dave Cockrum shortly after his death.  

Wolverine Solo

From The Art of John Byrne:

"Unpublished image from an early, unfinished, Wolverine solo story done on spec."

http://www.artofjohnbyrne.com/gallery/oa/oamarvel/oamarvel-xmen/wolvie-illo.jpg.php

One Minute Later

This art was actually repurposed by inker Joe Rubinstein over John Byrne's pencils for another project.  It comes to us from Comicartfan's One Minute Later gallery, a series of commissions depicting what happened just after the original cover.

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryRoom.asp?GSub=118778