Dave Cockrum, 63, Comic Book Artist, Dies
"Dave Cockrum, an illustrator who in the mid-1970s helped invent a dynamic new look and intriguing new characters for the moribund “X-Men” comics, paving the way for what became America’s most popular comic books and a billion-dollar movie empire, died on Nov. 26 at his home in Belpon, S.C. He was 63."
The new look is an important thing to note. Cockrum's character designs were greater than stuff.