10 Facts About X-Men

1. DC Comics's Doom Patrol, which debuted several months before X-Men, was suspected by its creator Arnold Drake and its fans of having had the basic concept copied to a great degree - including a wheel-chair bound leader - by Marvel Comics to create the X-Men.

2. Claremont left after only three issues of X-Men, ending his 16-year run as X-Men writer.

3. Ultimate X-Men set in Marvel's revised imprint was launched, while Chuck Austen began his controversial run on Uncanny X-Men.

4. X-Men was renamed into X-Men: Legacy which focused on Professor X, Rogue and Gambit.

5. In 2012 "Avengers vs X-Men" served as a closure to the "House of M" and "Decimation" storylines.

6. New flagship title All-New X-Men was launched which featured the original five X-Men members who were brought to the present day by Beast and were made a separate team led eventually by Kitty.

7. The relaunched Uncanny X-Men featured Cyclops, his team and the new mutants, taking up residency in the Weapon X facility, which they have rebuilt into a school — the New Charles Xavier School for Mutants.

8. When Sabretooth's human son Graydon Creed ran for office, the X-Men sent in Cannonball and Iceman to discreetly join his campaign team and find anything on his anti-mutant agenda.

9. X-Men exist in the Marvel Universe along with other characters featured in Marvel Comics series and often interact with them.

10. Insecurity and anxieties in Marvel's early 1960s comic books such as The Fantastic Four, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, and X-Men ushered in a new type of superhero, very different from the certain and all-powerful superheroes before them, and changed the public's perception of superheroes.