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A page from MARVEL AND DC PRESENT THE UNCANNY X-MEN AND THE NEW TEEN TITANS by Walt Simonson and Terry Austin.

X-Men 96. Art by Dave Cockrum. Words by Chris Claremont.

Magneto faces…Margaret Thatcher!

X-Men #150. Art by Dave Cockrum and Bob Wiacek; Words by Chris Claremont.

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Uncanny X-Men 173 By Paul Smith

Paul Smith drew my favorite Wolverine.

Color guide for X-Men Annual #5. Art by Brent Anderson and Bob McLeod. Colors by Glynis Wein. Words by Chris Claremont. Letters by Tom Orzechowski.

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Uncanny X-Men #109, page 17 by John Byrne & Terry Austin.

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Chris Claremont and Bonnie Wilford, innocent bystanders. From X-Men #98. Art by Dave Cockrum and Sam Grainger.

Detail from X-Men #141. Art by John Byrne and Terry Austin. Words by Chris Claremont.

Ms. Marvel had been conceived as a trademark strategy (and an empty gesture toward feminism), but Chris Claremont had transformed her into a carefully shaded character by dwelling on her relationships with her parents and the challenges of her career. “We’re trying to appeal to a female audience, trying to make her a hip, happening, 70s woman striking out on her own,” Claremont recalled. “We say to the artist, ‘ … and we need her to look sexy.’ Well, his interpretation of sexy was derived from the ’40s, so what we got was a continuous series of crotch shots.” Claremont lobbied to get his old X-Men partner Dave Cockrum on the title, and they went through several dozen costume redesigns, trying to get it just right. No one had invested so much energy into a female superhero before, and, as Cockrum observed, no one else much cared. “When I brought in the one that was ultimately approved, Stan [Lee] said, ‘why didn’t you bring me this one first? This is what I’m after … tits and ass.’ ”

“We’re trying to appeal to a female audience, trying to make her a hip, happening, 1970s woman striking out on her own,” Chris Claremont recalled of Ms. Marvel. “We say to the artist, ‘ … and we need her to look sexy.’ Well, his interpretation of sexy was derived from the ’40s, so what we got was a continuous series of crotch shots.” Claremont lobbied to get his old X-Men partner Dave Cockrum on the title, and…

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Walter Simonson breakdowns and finished art for the X-Men/New Teen Titans comic, 1982. Inks by Terry Austin; Colors by Glynis Wein; Words by Chris Claremont; Lettering by Tom Orzechowski.

The New Teen Titan was deemed “DC’s X-Men” for the way that it, too, dusted off adolescent characters from the 1960s, paired them with new members from faraway lands, and mined the cultural conflicts for melodrama—but it was also an undeniably well-done comic, and the first threat in a while to Marvel’s hype monopoly.

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“It’s partly, as my wife is fond of pointing out…I spent forty years making Marvel billions of dollars, and what I have to show for it are lovely conversations on podcasts. This is no disrespect for you, but it’s like, if I had taken the same effort and had the same sales and the copyright was mine and not Marvel’s, we’d be having perhaps the same conversation but in a much more secure commercial and financial reality than exists.”

—Chris Claremont
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X-Men #153. Art by Dave Cockrum and Joe Rubinstein. Words by Chris Claremont.

Classic X-Men #6, February 1987. Art by John Bolton.

Bruce Timm has a little fun with Chris Claremont, in the pages of Amazing Heroes #15, from 1982.