FOOM Magazine #10
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeFOOM #10 (June 1975) is the earliest published venue in which the All-New, All-Different X-Men — Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, and Thunderbird — appeared in print on both the cover and in an interior article, making it a genuine document of Marvel's most consequential team shake-up of the Bronze Age. Whether it technically pre-dates Giant-Size X-Men #1 on newsstands is actively debated by historians: FOOM was a subscription-only magazine with no newsstand distribution, so its June 1975 cover date reflects its actual mailing month rather than the three-month post-dating convention applied to retail comics — meaning Giant-Size X-Men #1, distributed to newsstands in February 1975, almost certainly reached readers first. Regardless of that chronological dispute, the issue stands as an invaluable primary source: it shows Marvel deliberately building pre-launch excitement for the new roster through its own fan channel, and it captures the creative energy around Dave Cockrum's character designs at the precise moment they were about to reshape superhero comics for a generation.
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FOOM — an acronym for 'Friends of Ol' Marvel' — was Marvel's self-produced quarterly fan magazine, running 22 issues from February 1973 through Fall 1978; it was conceived as the successor to the company's 1960s fan club, the Merry Marvel Marching Society. The first four issues were designed and edited by Jim Steranko, and issue #10 fell under the editorship of Scott Edelman, who helmed issues #8 through #11. The issue was assembled by a broad roster of Marvel talent and contributors, including Dave Cockrum (who drew both the cover and an interior Storm sketch), Don Maitz (who provided a centerspread pin-up contrasting the original and new X-Men lineups), Jack Kirby (whose original Sentinel designs were reproduced), and staff writers including Roger Stern and Marv Wolfman, alongside fan-submitted material — a format consistent with FOOM's dual role as house organ and genuine fan-community publication.
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- Published June 1975 by Marvel Comics; issue #10 of a 22-issue quarterly run (February 1973 – Fall 1978).
- Features the article 'Mutation of the Species,' an in-depth preview of the All-New, All-Different X-Men — including Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, and Thunderbird — before those characters had appeared in wide distribution.
- Cover art by Dave Cockrum, the co-designer of Nightcrawler, Storm, Colossus, and Mystique, who also contributed an interior Storm character sketch.
- Interior art contributions include Jack Kirby's original Sentinel design sketches, a Don Maitz centerspread pin-up depicting both the original and new X-Men teams side-by-side, and additional illustrations by Val Mayerik and Bob Budiansky.
- Additional named contributors include Roger Stern, Marv Wolfman, Marie Severin, and editor Scott Edelman, with fan photos of Stan Lee, Neal Adams, Herb Trimpe, Doug Moench, Howard Chaykin, Roy Thomas, Len Wein, and Joe Sinnott.
- Includes a humor piece titled 'Eggs-Men' and an article titled 'Jack Kirby's Back!' — reflecting the broader editorial content of the issue beyond the X-Men preview.
- Distributed exclusively by subscription (not via newsstand), which is central to the ongoing scholarly debate about whether it physically reached readers before Giant-Size X-Men #1 (distributed to newsstands February 25, 1975, per the U.S. Copyright Office filing cited by the Grand Comics Database).
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Reprinted in X-Men: Children of the Atom #[9] (2019), Fantastic Four Epic Collection #9 (2023), Captain America Epic Collection #6 (2024)
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