Some months later, while Dave Cockrum was penciling the interior of GSXM #1, Gil Kane drew the main figures of the new X-Men for the cover. What happened, apparently, was that John Romita designed the Wolverine look and costume, which Herb Trimpe penciled faithfully in the three HULK issues. I was acting as a contractual writer/editor by the time GIANT-SIZE X-MEN #1 really got underway, even though I had set the ball in motion in summer of '74. or at least it HAD nothing to do with me, until I scripted X-MEN LEGENDS #1-2 in 2022, and used that story to, among other things, give a canon rationale for the change. The alteration of Wolverine's mask between THE INCREDIBLE HULK #180-182 and GIANT-SIZE X-MEN #1 really has nothing to do with me. However, Roy also had his thoughts on this change, so why would I deprive you all of hearing from Roy freakin' Thomas? I have done a Comic Book Legends Revealed about how Kane had just drawn the mask differently on the cover, and Cockrum (who inked the cover, liked it so much that he just altered all of his art in the book to match Kane's accidental new design).
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