The X-Men meet Doctor Fate!

Sometimes in creating these covers, I think I work backwards. I find an image I want to use then build the rest of the cover around it. In this case, I found this fun picture of the Uncanny X-Men (Cyclops, Storm, Colossus, Banshee, Wolverine and Nightcrawler) by John Byrne dressed in the original X-Men costumes. From there, I remembered this cover from DC Comics Presents that might explain why they were dressed that way. Voila!

Also I want to give a shoutout to the letterers of comics that have to make the prose fit into word balloons. It's trickier than I thought. My appreciation for them has grown by leaps and bounds.

X-Men art by John Byrne

Dr. Fate art by Ross Andru and Dick Giordano