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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. His letter, from Fantastic Four #44 (cover date – November 1965), accuses Stan Lee of ripping off lines from Ian Fleming’s James Bond series.
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