Roy Thomas to write new X-Men story for 50th Anniversary issue

Legendary writer/editor Roy Thomas will contribute a story to X-Men: Gold, a special comic book to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the creation of Marvel’s mutant franchise.   Thomas had two memorable runs as writer on X-Men, taking over from Stan Lee with issue 20.  He had a hand in the creation of two mainstay X-Men characters:  In issue 28, Thomas and artist Werner Roth introduced the sonic-powered Irish mutant Banshee, and during his legendary late 1960’s run with artist Neal Adams, introduced Havok, giving a superhero persona to the Alex Summers character created by Arnold Drake and Don Heck.  Other past X-Men writers including Chris Claremont and Stan Lee will contribute to X-Men: Gold.

Thomas’ creator owned titles Captain Thunder and Blue Bolt, Alter Ego, and Anthem are all represented for foreign rights by Grand Design Communications.  In addition, Grand Design is also representing Roy Thomas’ new creator-owned projects Rath 3000 with Nathan Furman and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight with Barry Orkin.