Iceman & The Beast in the Savage Land
Let's revisit the original X-Men in these scans from X-Men: The Hidden Years #6, featuring Iceman & The Beast.
An unconscious and de-powered Iceman washes up the shores of the Savage Land where Dr. Karl Lykos aka Sauron finds him. I love that when Bobby isn't iced up, his costume basically consists of briefs with a belt & boots!
Next, we have an injured Beast with this shirt all torn up.
Naturally, he took off what remained of his shirt, but why did he take his pants & boots off? They weren't damaged. Maybe he just wanted to fit in with the natives so he copied their dress code. Or maybe its a sign of things to come since his future blue-furred self's most recognizable costume is basically a speedo with a belt. Truthfully, I don't really care what his reasoning is, because pre-blue Hank McCoy was a babe, and the more skin he shows, the better!
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I don't know if Marvel's gonna release it in TPB though, John Byrne was so pretty pissed when the title got canceled that he hasn't worked for Marvel since. And it seems that Marvel favors the "First Class" books over THY, so those are more likely to be reprinted when the movie comes out. BTW, I am not crazy about the new costumes that they have in the "First Class" books. they got rid of Iceman's briefs!
http://shirtless-superheroes.blogspot.com/2009/05/x-men-first-class-cyclops-iceman.html