Giant-Size X-Men #1 · 1975
A new team.
Breaking through.
The original X-Men look on as a new generation bursts through the frame. Follow this defining team cover across superheroes, humor and independent comics.
The origin pointGiant-Size X-Men #1 · Gil Kane & Dave Cockrum
The original cover
Out with the old.
In bursts the new.
Gil Kane and Dave Cockrum frame the new X-Men beneath the watching faces of the original team. Torn paper, charging figures and the banner “Second Genesis!” make the change impossible to miss.
Marvel’s 1975 issue introduced the new team assembled by Professor X. Its cover combines Kane’s pencils with Cockrum’s inks and original-team portraits, with colors credited to Glynis Wein.
This lineage includes direct recreations, comic parodies and variations on the breakthrough composition. Original-art reprints do not count as new homages. Alternate finishes of the same artwork are grouped.
The Giant-Size X-Men #1 collection
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Research & upcoming · Reviewed October 13, 2026
A team cover with a long afterlife.
The research combines the supplied spreadsheet and League of Comic Geeks list with publisher listings, retailer archives, artist credits, GCD, Comic Vine and publicly indexed convention, social-media and marketplace references.
Upcoming: No additional unreleased homage cover was confirmed in this review. An announced title or story tribute alone does not establish a cover homage.
Edition checks: Original-art facsimiles and Marvel Comics Digest #4 are reprints. Loki’s collected edition reuses the issue #8 artwork. A-Next #12 is held as an indirect reference pending stronger evidence of the Giant-Size X-Men connection.
Records still being completed
These leads remain in the research file while exact cover images or attribution are checked. They are listed here rather than shown with a blank cover.
- Strictly Independent #2 — Homage connection remains under review.
- A-Next #12 — Homage connection remains under review.
- Marvel Previews #25 — Homage connection remains under review.
- Secret Identities #1 — Exact cover image still being sourced.
- Spider-Man 2099 #1 — Exact cover image still being sourced.
- Holy F*cked #3 — Exact cover image still being sourced.
- Heroes of Homeroom C #1 / graphic novel — Exact cover image still being sourced.
- My Nightmarish Little Venomous Ponies and the Magical Friendship Zombies #1 — Exact cover image still being sourced.
- Heroes at Large! #1 — Exact cover image still being sourced.
- Beyondtopia Legends #1 — Homage connection remains under review.
- Tim Seeley’s Lucky #1 — Homage connection remains under review.
- Phazer Universe #1 — Homage connection remains under review.
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