“There are no heritage concepts at Marvel or DC that are untouched.
“The circumstances and the parameters have changed dramatically,” Claremont says. It’s a feat that could not be duplicated in today’s more corporate and branded publishing and entertainment worlds, where editors have less patience with experimentation and more oversight to keep titles in silos. He not only authored their adventures over an unprecedented 17-year run, but, with 2000’s X-Men film, saw his work used as the foundation upon which the Marvel superhero movie juggernaut was built.
But his emergence as the mutant superteam’s guide made him the one largely responsible for its prominent place in pop culture and comics history. He didn’t develop it or the initial team members (Stan Lee and Jack Kirby did that), nor did he create the second wave when the book was relaunched in 1975 (credit goes to Len Wein and Dave Cockrum). Claremont was, in some ways, late to the X-Men party when he took over the comic decades ago.
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