X-Men was relaunched in May 1975 with Giant-Size X-Men #1, by Len Wein and Dave Cockrum. The title featured a new, international team consisting of Scott Summers (Cyclops) of the United States, Ireland‘s Sean Cassidy (Banshee), the Japanese mutant Shiro Yoshida (Sunfire), and James “Logan” Howlett (Wolverine) from Canada, along with new characters Ororo Munroe (Storm) out of Kenya, the German Kurt Wagner (Nightcrawler), Piotr “Peter” Rasputin (Colossus) from Russia in The Soviet Union, and John Proudstar (Thunderbird), a Native American.
The series title was changed to The Uncanny X-Men with issue #114 (October 1978).
In 2010, Comics Bulletin ranked Claremont and Byrne’s run on The X-Men second on its list of the “Top 10 1970s Marvels”.
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