I’ve never been one for one-shots.

You know the comics I mean. Special, “limited edition” books that come out, tell a quick story, and leave you wanting more, or more often, less.

About the only one-shots I like consistently are the holiday and free comic-book day collections of short stories different companies come out with once a year.

But Marvel’s “Mythos” series of one-shots has been a nice adventure.

I was first turned on to the series when they brought out “X-Men: Mythos” in March 2006.

It retold the story of “The Uncanny X-Men No. 1,” but with a modern and darker flair.

Basically, it tells the story of that first issue way back when in 1963, but with the added flavor of the popular film franchise. In other words, racism, death and witty dialogue (the latter of which was almost completely absent in Brett Ratner’s finale film of 2006).

It brings back the original group of super teens — Bobby Drake is the Iceman, Scott Summers is Cyclops, Hank McCoy is the Beast, Warren Worthington III is Angel and Jean Grey is Marvel Girl — and happily puts them in the Danger Room and confronting Magneto at a military base.

After the X-Men came “Hulk: Mythos” in August of last year, again retelling the origin of one of Marvel’s most famous heroes.

Bruce Banner gets exposed to gamma radiation, and when he gets angry turns into an unstoppable big, green beast.

In January of this year, just in time for the movie, “Ghost Rider: Mythos” was released, and had perhaps the coolest art of the series. This one tells of how Johnny Blaze became the devil’s bounty hunter and turned into a flaming ball of biker.

A few weeks ago, the newest in the “Mythos” line hit the stands, telling the origin story of one of comics’ greatest supergroups ever, the Fantastic Four.

Now, I’m not a huge fan of the two movies made about this super family, although I could hear Jessica Alba was reading “War and Peace” for six hours and I’d shell out the nine bucks to go see it in a theater.

I’ve always found the family dynamic of Reed Richards, Sue and Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm fun and entertaining in the comics, and I do have both those films on DVD (I thought they caught the feel of the comics well enough, but were just a little too cheesy and sloppily thrown together. I guess, just like old 1980s Fantastic Four books, huh?).

And I loves me a good story about these supers.