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Reviewing every X-Book from #1 on. Celebrating #XFactor40. Skeeting [...sigh] a #TradingCardADay. Writing fiction. Co-host @AVSEPod. Editor at ComicsXF. Bylines linktr.ee/austingorton. He/Him. https://www.therealgentlemenofleisure.com/

Austin Gorton

It's a tad late but the new Previously on X-Men is up, dissecting a week stuffed w/X-books, many of which mark the ends of series or stories and feature assorted continuity flubs! comicon.com/2026/06/11/p...

050 - Hammer "Eisenhower Hammer" is one HELL of a name. It feels like a missed opportunity to have Dan Brereton paint every Six Packer BUT Hammer. #TradingCardADay #FUXM1 #XMen #SixPack #JohnVanFleet

163 - X-Factor Annual #6 - 6/11/1991 This "last gasp before the relaunch" story across the '91 annuals is seems a touch underrated. Cover by Mike Mignola. Interiors by Fabian Nicieza & Terry Shoemaker #XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #XFactor #Cyclops #JeanGrey #Beast #Angel #Iceman

My pick this week is MASK #1, the latest expansion of the Energon Universe! MASK was certainly a second-tier toy line for me, but one I still have a lot of affection for. I mean, gull wing doors that open up and then the car can fly? That just makes sense.

161 - Identity Disc - 6/9/2004 When Marvel saw the success of DC's Identity Crisis and tried to say, "hold my beer." Cover by Tony Harris. Interiors by Robert Rodi & John Higgins. #XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #IdentifyDisc #Sabretooth

049 - G.W Bridge In terms of names that are puns, "George Washington Bridge" is a first ballot Hall of Famer. #TradingCardADay #FUXM1 #XMen #SixPack #SHIELD #DanBrereton

048 - Grizzly Another great example of cobbling together a cardback bio based on very little available info In terms of hirsute strong characters based on cryptids/ursids, it goes Sasquatch > Wendigo > Grizzly > Yeti, right? #TradingCardADay #FUXM1 #XMen #SixPack #DanBrereton

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X-Men Blue Team highlights from Fleer Ultra X-Men Series 1! Which one is your favorite? #TradingCardADay #FUXM1 #XMen #XMenBlue #DanBrereton #BrianStelfreeze #DaveDorman #KentWilliams #Beast #Jubilee #Sabretooth #Wolverine

162 - Inferno #2 - 6/10/2015 I still inexplicably dig furry Beast in the brown-and-yellow costume. Cover by Andy Clarke. Interiors by Dennis Hopeless & Javier Garrón. #XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #Inferno #Cyclops #JeanGrey #Beast #BoomBoom

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047 - Weapon X What's more "1994": this set having TWO "Weapon X" cards, or the set featuring cards of the entirety of Cable's old mercenary group, the Six Pack? #TradingCardADay #FUXM1 #XMen #SixPack #DanBrereton