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It may surprise many to know that the X-Men nearly had an animated series during the eighties. As early as their cameos in Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends, Marvel Productions were doing their best to get a series launched, but there was little interest in the characters! JON TALPUR wrote a fantastic article for issue six and I had recently discovered the awesome artwork of THE FRANCHIZE! There was a superb piece in his gallery which had Wolverine and some X-Men just behind him. I asked him to re-illustrate the piece, but reflecting the characters as they appeared in the Amazing Friends series. And he did!- theFranchize
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The Marvel Universe is lucky to have these guys.
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These guys were in Amazing Friends? Wow, that's cool! I've seen the X-men pilot, where Wolvie is in his brown costume and has that weird British/Australian accent, but I never knew they showed up anywhere else.
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Yeah, the X-Men (even the original Lee/Kirby versions) all make cameos in the Amazing Friends series...
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Is that warpath? I seen the episode, but I didn't remember him being in it.
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That's Thunderbird, Warpath's older, deader brother.
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Yeah, I dont think it was until the mid to late 80s where the X-Men took off, and I dont think Wolverine was popular until the Clairemont/Miller mini-series.
I could be wrong though
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I can only imagine how easy it would be to sell an X-Men series to a network these days...
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Yeah, what with Wolverine and the X-Men being cancelled due to one of the financiers going bankrupt and the new "X-Men: Teenage MTV Crowd" movie coming out (sorry, I'm figuring its gonna suck what with all the teenyboppers, I'm scared its going to be for the "Twilight crowd" and not an "everyone" movie, lol) it probably would be, unless Marvel has something new up their sleeve already, but I doubt it.
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Some of my favourite S&HAF episodes has the X-men, and of course the Captain America episodes.
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The Captain America episode from the 1981 solo Spider-Man series is SUPER, with fantastic animation on the part of Toei!
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