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Everything in here also applies to other mediums and this is certainly nothing unique to superheroes, but I'm using it as a focus topic because it's obviously something I know well.
Starts off in its own mag in the UK, originally in full color and it's very silver age style with your random supervillains, exuberant narration and simple characters. This is far from what Claremont's writing would become. 
This is probably gonna get maudlin as fuck so you may wanna tune out now.
Warnings: Below this point I am going to MASSIVELY spoil the story in this comic. I will not post images or scans due to how recent it is, but please turn away if you want to read it for yourself.
Claremont puts his character through transformative arcs to explore their personalities, expose their raw spots and present them with a scenario where they can be free of whatever troubles them. Become what they want you to be. Conform. Stop struggling. Let go. 
Marvel's idea of evolution is fascinating me as a trained biologist because while it's obviously created with grand storytelling and sci-fi/fantasy in mind, sometimes you find yourself looking at concepts which are rooted in Victorian era pseudoscience or worse. 
Giant-Size X-Men #1 was thrown into the cold, harsh world of 1975 as a faint hope of revival of a long-fallow property. The X-men, long reduced to cameo appearances and reprints were getting an overhaul for the 1970s. And overhaul that created one of Marvel's biggest properties 
I am not 100% prepared but due to having some very busy months I pretty much never will be so please be patient. Now join me, dear reader as we go back in time... 
Don't worry, that G.I. Joe topic is on the way, by the way! 
So join me tonight for the ultimate battle:
After a year-long hiatus Conan returned in an all-new Conan the Barbarian #1 in summer of 1997. And Marvel had now decided to make the barbarian the star of one of the worst ideas of the 1990s - the ongoing miniseries. 
This will be a slightly improvised thread so please bear with me. 
Yes it's true. I buy things other than comic books. This is the result of a quick spin around the various stores I like downtown. 
This isn't a "proper" deep dive or analysis, friends. This is just me having some casual fun with some stuff I love. Come on this journey with me and let me know which of these characters YOU were already familiar with! 
As you probably remember I have had an unhealthy fascination with handbook comics ever since first discovering the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe (Deluxe edition) through our long-departed Swedish editions of Marvel comics. And with good reason. 
(And if you're wondering why I wrote Gudra when the comic page CLEARLY reads Gundra - that's a whole thing.)
It is absolutely no secret nor surprise that most superhero comics produced in the USA are extremely US-centric. The degree of this naturally varies and some creators are much better at changing perspectives than others. Still, DC and Marvel especially are very focused on the USA 
This thread is a direct response to my full aware self-critique that I talk a lot less about DC than I do other publishers. Which is weird as DC was pretty much the reason I became a life-time comics fan as a young adult. So I hope this will be interesting. 
It is in every regard a direct sequel to the 1991 mini Deadly Foes of Spider-Man which was also written by Danny Fingeroth but had a different art team mostly carried by Al Milgrom. Both series are in essence kind of about the Sinister Syndicate, the sorta-kinda Sinister Six 