X-Men Legends is a series that features Marvel Comics' most celebrated creators return with new, in-continuity stories set during their classic X-Men runs. The title is now set to return this May with a new #1 issue, and industry pioneer Roy Thomas will revisit the Silver Age for a story set after his final issue and before Giant-Size X-Men set the stage for a new era of adventures.
Teaming up with artist Dave Wachter, Thomas will put the spotlight on his co-creation, Wolverine, offering new insight into his government missions before he was recruited by Professor X (including unrevealed details on his battle with the green goliath in the iconic Hulk #181 - #182).
This untold episode will also star Beast and a host of missing mutants, revealing the secret behind Wolverine's costume! it's all in continuity too, so this should be a must-read for comic book fans.
"You could've knocked me over with one of the Angel's wing-feathers when editor Mark Basso invited me to scribe a two-part X-Men Legends story set back in the general period of the X-Men book during the period when I was writing it (as Stan's successor) in the latter 1960s," Thomas said. "After some thought, it occurred to me that what would really be fun would be to write a story that took place right after the crashing of Wolverine into the Marvel Universe in '1974.'"
"After conceiving the character in broad outline (and some specifics), I turned him over to the considerable writing skills of Len Wein, but have long kinda wished that I had scripted that story myself. This is the closest I'm gonna get--so I'm having a ball with it! (Artwork's pretty great, too!)"
This sounds like the sort of storytelling many Marvel Comics fans have been hoping for, and revisiting classic eras has paid off big time for the publisher over the past few years. Thomas returning is welcomed, and a fun Wolverine tale delving into that character's past should be awesome.
Check out some X-Men Legends cover art below: