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John Tyler Christopher Switches From Action Figure To Trading Card Covers – And Jim Lee's Astonishing X-Men 1:1000 Variant Revealed

John Tyler Christopher made a cottage industry for himself drawing/painting covers for Marvel's Star Wars relaunch, drawing characters as if they were Star Wars toys still in their blister packs. The success and demand for those covers saw them spill out into other Marvel titles and for other artists at other publishers to follow suit (although, yes, Scud The Disposable Assassin did it years previously). Christopher also licensed the rights to create his own trading card variant covers from his studio.

But eventually, it seems a man tires of recreating fictional shoddy toys from the seventies. And wants to recreate something from the nineties instead!

Which is why Astonishing X-Men #1 will not have a John Tyler Christopher action figure variant anymore.

But will instead have his first Trading Card variant instead!

It's available to order by retailers who order Astonishing X-Men #1 with 200% or more of their orders of X-Men Gold #2.

Not the hardest to get though… the Jim Lee variant, reusing old Jim Lee X-Men artwork, is only available 1 for every 1000 regular copies that stores order…

ASTONISHING X-MEN #1
MARVEL COMICS
(W) Charles Soule (A) Jim Cheung (CA) John Tyler Christopher
ONLY THE X-MEN CAN SAVE US!
An ancient evil is attacking the world's most powerful minds. It will have them by the time you finish this sentence, and a moment later, it will have us all. A band of X-MEN discovers the truth behind the threat, but there is no time left. PSYLOCKE, OLD MAN LOGAN, BISHOP, ARCHANGEL, FANTOMEX, ROGUE and GAMBIT will attempt to save a world that hates and fears them. Why? BECAUSE THEY ARE THE X-MEN.
From blockbuster writer CHARLES SOULE and joined by a roster of superstar artists beginning with JIM CHEUNG. ASTONISHING X-MEN. It's the X-book you need.
Rated T+

Out in July…

Thanks to Momar for the typo fix.

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