As the young kids say, 1980s X-Men stories were a different vibe. You had to be there. The original 1963 X-Men comics found their inspiration from the 1960s Civil Rights era. They got canceled but were revitalized in 1975 with Giant-Sized X-Men #1. They then found a narrative groove in the 1980s that has yet to be creatively matched. One writer, Chris Claremont, wrote X-Men comics for 17 years straight. Claremont and his co-creators created original X-Men characters and stories that are still taken for granted as tropes today. Besides 2019’s House of X/Powers of X, I think the best era of X-Men comics is found in the 1980s.
