Fifty years between teammates
Giant-Size X-Men #1 hit newsstands in May 1975, written by Len Wein and drawn by Dave Cockrum, and it rebuilt the team almost entirely: Storm, Nightcrawler, Thunderbird, and Colossus all joined in that single issue. VeVe got to Storm first. Her digital collectible debuted on November 20, 2021, a five-tier set running 40,650 editions. Giant-Size X-Men #1 itself followed as a digital comic in February 2023. Colossus, co-created in the same story as both of them, waited almost five more years past Storm's debut for a set of his own.
None of that says anything about what else Marvel or VeVe has planned. It says only that the order collectibles ship in does not track the order characters were created in, and Colossus is the clearest example of the gap in our own files. When his set finally arrived, it made the wait part of the pitch: three variants spanning his original 1975 design through two later comic eras, every one of them tagged First Appearance.
Who Colossus is
Piotr Rasputin grew up on a collective farm in Soviet Ukraine before discovering he could turn his body into organic steel, a transformation that trades speed for near total invulnerability and enough raw strength to anchor a team's front line. He has spent five decades doing exactly that for the X-Men, usually without the spotlight that follows faster or flashier teammates. The character work underneath the metal, the quiet farm boy who paints in his downtime and worries about family back home, is most of what makes him durable as a lead rather than muscle in the background.
VeVe's set does not flatten him into one pose. The three variants pull from three separate eras of the comic, which is a wider spread than most single-character debuts get.
The three variants
Every sculpt in this set lists at the same $30, so price tells you nothing about scarcity here. The pull odds do, and they do not line up with the rarity badges the way most VeVe boxes train you to expect.
Edition breakdown
| Variant | Rarity label | Editions | Pull odds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uncanny X-Men 1975 | Common (Special Edition) | 75 | 1 in 36.55 |
| Secret Wars 1985 | Ultra Rare | 475 | 1 in 5.58 |
| Phoenix | Common | 1,975 | 1 in 1.26 |
| Total | 2,525 |
That is 2,525 editions across the set, with 150 withheld and none burned, since this is a recent drop and scarcity here comes entirely from the mint counts and pull odds rather than any burn history. Lined up by population rather than by badge, the order is Phoenix at 1,975, Secret Wars 1985 at 475, then Uncanny X-Men 1975 at 75, which does not match Common, Common, Ultra Rare at all.
The Uncanny X-Men 1975 Special Edition carries a Common label and a 75-edition population, more than six times tighter than the set's own Ultra Rare at 475.
Why the label undersells it
VeVe's rarity badges describe a tier's position in the box, not always its population. A Special Edition insert, the kind of bonus pull dropped into an otherwise ordinary box, often carries the lowest print run in the whole release regardless of what word sits on its badge. That is exactly what happened here: Phoenix and Uncanny X-Men 1975 both read Common, but one has 1,975 editions and the other has 75. A collector buying on badge alone would assume the Ultra Rare at 475 is the hard get. The real chase sits one tier down, under a label that says the opposite.
This is not unique to Colossus, but it is an unusually clean example because the gap is so wide inside a single rarity word. Reading a VeVe box by its edition counts rather than its badges is the more reliable habit, and this set is a good place to practice it.
Market context
The set released as a $30 blind box in Season 12 under the Marvel license, carrying the standard 8.50% market fee. That was the drop-day list price; what any given variant trades for now depends on the tier and the listing, so the figures worth tracking are the edition counts above, not the original $30. Colossus fills a specific hole in VeVe's Marvel lineup: Storm, Professor X, and Wolverine all had their platform debuts earlier, making this one of the later original X-Men names in our files to get a proper first appearance set.
Which one should you own?
If you want the real chase: the Uncanny X-Men 1975 Special Edition at 75 editions. The Common badge undersells it, the population does not.
If you want the character's signature modern look: the Phoenix variant at 1,975 editions, the most available way into a genuine first-appearance set.
If you want the piece with motion: Secret Wars 1985 at 475 editions, the only animated sculpt in the set and still scarcer than Phoenix by a wide margin.
If you collect the 1975 roster: pair this with the Storm set and the Giant-Size X-Men #1 digital comic. Three releases, five years apart in real time, one shared origin issue.
All three variants trade between collectors on the VeVe secondary market, sometimes below original retail. New to VeVe? Grab $10 off your first purchase.
Frequently Asked Questions
July 19, 2026, on VeVe as a $30 blind box under the Marvel license, part of Season 12. It shipped with three variants totaling 2,525 editions.
The Uncanny X-Men 1975 Special Edition, at 75 editions and pull odds around 1 in 36.55. It carries a Common rarity badge, which makes it easy to miss next to the Ultra Rare at 475.
Rarity badges on VeVe describe a tier's position in the box, not always its edition count. The Uncanny X-Men 1975 piece is a Special Edition insert, a bonus-style pull that landed at 75 editions despite its Common label, well under the Ultra Rare Secret Wars 1985 variant's 475.
Colossus is Piotr Rasputin, a mutant who can turn his body into organic steel. He debuted in Giant-Size X-Men #1 in May 1975, the same issue that introduced Storm, created by Len Wein and Dave Cockrum.
Storm's own VeVe debut released November 20, 2021, a five-tier set totaling 40,650 editions. Colossus, introduced in the same 1975 comic, did not get his own set until July 19, 2026, nearly five years later, and at a much smaller 2,525 editions across three tiers.
Yes. All three variants trade between collectors on the VeVe secondary market, sometimes below the original $30 list price.
