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Dave Cockrum was the artist on the now-famous “all-new, all-different” version of the X-Men that featured a new group of international mutants including Wolverine, Nightcrawler, and Storm. His first run as artist lasted for about a year until he was replaced by John Byrne in 1977. Cockrum returned to the title for another run in 1981. After about a year and a half, Cockrum resigned from the X-Job to create his own group of super-heroes: the Futurians. Prior to that, he was a fan of Marvel’s version of the Norse God of Thunder. His letter, from Thor #132 (cover date – September 1966), exposes his concern for an ill-founded “conspiracy” to replace the Thor title with Hercules as the main star.
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