As the final two pages from the final issue of his record-breaking run on X-Men, this piece stands as one of the most influential images ever created by Jim Lee, and one of the most recognizable in all of X-history! Featuring Cyclops, Wolverine, Gambit, Rogue, Psylocke, Beast, and Jubilee, the entire Blue Team appears in Lee's definitive costume designs. This detail-rich splash page serves as a lasting testament to his impact on one of the most important franchises in comic book history and perfectly captures Marvel's art direction in the 1990s. It has remained perennially popular for more than 30 years, repurposed on everything from variant comic book covers, including a wraparound remaster for 2017's Astonishing X-Men #1, to promotional posters and fine art prints. The composition and heroic poses are so iconic that Disney+ created an homage -- complete with Jubilee's soda and bucket of popcorn -- to promote their Emmy-nominated series X-Men '97, swapping in Jean Grey for Psylocke and adding Storm, Morph, and Bishop to round out the animated cast. (The image can currently be seen on the show's landing page on Disney+.) To the right of the team, you'll find special guest stars Longshot and Dazzler. Just one page earlier, Dazzler revealed she's pregnant, and here she's shown rejecting her partner's suggested baby name: Shatterstar -- who, at this point, was already an adult and a founding member of X-Force. The mystery of what it all meant lingered for decades, until it was finally confirmed in 2013 that the pair are indeed his parents, in a wild twist that also made Shatterstar both Longshot's son and his father. (Cue the jingle: "I'm My Own Grandpa.")
