X-Men Poster Blue Team Cyclops Psylocke Rogue Gambit Wolverine
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X-Men Poster Blue Team Cyclops Psylocke Rogue Gambit Wolverine
The Blue Team
Blue Team Roster: Cyclops, Wolverine, Beast, Rogue, Gambit, Psylocke
These days the X-Men franchise consists of approximately 75 monthly books and devours entire forests worth of trees in one fell swoop. But in the ’80s, Marvel was only publishing Uncanny X-Men and a handful of spinoff titles like New Mutants and X-Factor.
That approach began to change in 1991 when Marvel debuted adjective-less X-Men as the first spinoff series to actually feature the core X-Men characters. The increasingly large group at the X-mansion was divided in half. In the pages of X-Men, Cyclops led the “Blue Team,” which included fan-favorites like Wolverine, Gambit, and Rogue. In Uncanny, Storm led the “Gold Team,” which included the likes of Jean Grey, Colossus, and newcomer Bishop.
X-Men quickly emerged as the more popular of the two, thanks both to the inclusion of Wolverine and the Jim Lee art. But both titles sold like gangbusters and helped define the look and feel of the franchise for the next decade, as well as heavily informing X-Men: The Animated Series. Many fans still look back on this era with a huge amount of nostalgia. And with last year’s Schism mini-series, Marvel has once again divided the franchise into two camps with two distinctly different rosters.
Near mint condition.
