We haven't done an annotation of a Silver Age comic in ages and I think I still have enough room left here. So, let's dig around in the usual mess of old paperbacks, comics, newspaper clippings and general debris. Here we go, from January 1965, THE X-MEN# 9, where our masked mutants tangle with the Avengers. Marvel heroes almost always fought when ( Read more... )

Page 8. This is kind of a stretch, the Angel flying around without a mask (especially since a few minutes earlier the X-Men were being all furtive and careful not to mention names) but it adds to the punchline of the sequence. In a movie adaptation (not likely right now, but you never know) this could be really funny. Meanwhile, Lucifer is ( Read more... )

Page 15. Captain America is still tossing Cyclops around like a rag doll, despite that power beam. Cap even says the Avengers have been restraining themselves so far. If Marvel Girl had some more experience with her powers, she could maybe turn off parts of Iron Man's armor and keep him busy hitting reset buttons ("Drat! There goes my AM/FM radio ( Read more... )

But first, an incredibly length dissertation on why the actual inspiration for the X-Men were the famous "Baldy" stories by Henry Kuttner:http://dr-hermes.livejournal.com/247206.html#comments


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