I'm Not X-Anon. I hope he won't get angry at me, but since there are shitload of x-books, it only makes sense to have shitload of X-Anons
But I felt like I wanted to contribute something really special. I want to storytime some mutant stories from Golden Era that predate X-Men, but at the same time feature common tropes developed by X-Men.
All by Marvel
Featuring:
-Origins of Namor wings
-Origins of Toro's powers
-First canonical X-Men character
-And Moar
and to make the tradition enough here is
PREVIOUSLY ON X-MEN:
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Starting with the first canonical X-Men character, who would re-appear in X-Men hidden years by Byrne
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drawn by Ditko
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Weird Woman
First story featuring evil mutant
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Yellow Claw
The characters would also re-appear in X-Men Hidden Years
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I sort of think that Ditko on X-Men would have been probably better than Kirby.
The first story reads so much like an X-Men story that I no longer thik Doom Patrol was such a big influence.
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The idea of the mutants was something that was brewing at least since 50s, wait until I storytime Namor's origins. It's hilarious that the story of how he got wings makes total sense in the X-Men mythos, despite predating them by at least 10 years
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also the first story I storytimed was reprinted in X-Men rarities, as well as other X-Men TPB
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it's worth noting that the idea of mutants at marvel was drastically different from what the sci-fi literature definition of mutants, but then again, marvel was known for portraying sympathetic werewolves, vampires, zombies, etc
This story was made by Neal Adams, just before he became a penciller for X-Men. Apparently the story was indeed inspired by his fascination with the concept of the mutants.
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it's still a horror story, but with a different twist
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it's probably the only non-golden age story I included here, more as a trivia
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I really like how short the story are, and yet they have a lot of going on
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*stories
Okay, Here is how Namor got his wings
it's a short story
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so yeah, his x-gene basically ignited when he was a teenager, and under the stress. his wings also are not common neither for humans, nor atlanteans.
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>Apparently the story was indeed inspired by his fascination with the concept of the mutants.
It makes sense. In the Silver Age radiation pretty much replaced magic as the go to origin story. It was a dropped plot point from Lee's X-Men that radiation caused mutants
Journey into mystery had surprisingly a lot of stories featuring muties here is one featuring a possible member of Apocalypse's cult
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I will also storytime that infamous pseudo-scientific article about mutants dominating humans, which inspired Stan Lee, but later, as a bonus
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I love this shit
I like the idea of having lots of undercover telepaths in the world who use their powers for selfish reasons, to make their lives easy, and Xavier/Exodus/Emma and that kind of people who use those powers to be heroes or villains as exceptions.
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by saying, a possible member, I mean a character that could be easily retconned as member of Akkaba clan. of course, in different time and era, currently mutants are being gassed like jews
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I know which story I will storytime next then
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From the same issue "Strange Power of Henry Grey"
I wonder if he's related toJEAAAAAAN
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metahumans using their powers to just be better at a job is something Marvel/DC really lack. Especially After M day
I remember one of the victims was a mutant who was able to survive off radiation so he worked with NASA. He just living on a solo space station doing experiments then he lost his powers and died horribly
It's why I like a character like Cypher
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I do remember that DC was pretty chill with metahumans. After all, they don't have a problem with Superman. I remember it being a plot in JLA/Avengers crossover....
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...when Quicksilver is shocked to learn that superheroes are accepted in DCverse, while Superman is disgusted at Genosha, Sentinels and Superhuman Registration Act
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It's worth noting that The X-Men were originally supposed to be called The Mutants, hence New Mutants, as a tribute to the original concept.
Apparently Goodman didn't like the name Mutants, as too complicated.
I guess that they became X-Men, because the letter "X" itself was very popular
After all, you had Planet X, Agent X, Chemical X, ex cetera...
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oh, and this is very X-Menish story
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This one is a weird story, because the character being a mutant was confirmed over 50 years later in.... Marvel Atlas.
Also, at the end of my storytime, I will post a source of my knowledge
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like I said, it could very well be areal mermaid.I had to see the entry in marvel atlas to believe it, though
It's really weird that someone not only knew about this character, but also bothered to mention her. It's uncanny how different marvel used to be with their nerdy knowledge
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It's weird that marvel never revived Bob Brant, considering that they revived Patsy Walker
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Origins of Toro
I don't know why, but he reminds me ofDick
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this will be a little longer
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A perfect page to show to anyone who says that Toro being a mutant was a retcon. I mean, how else are you going to explain that? It also shows how much the recent retcon was retarded
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It was never really explored though.
It's also worth mentioning that Human Torch had his own share of "feared and loathed" stories
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I even would go as far and say that Namor vs Human Torch was a prototype of Magneto vs Prof X
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Both Namor and Magneto hated the surface world / normal humans. They both were sometimes terrorists, sometimes heroes. They both distanced themselves from homo sapiens, despite them having origins in them. Both wanted to subjugate and dominate humankind
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Meanwhile both Prof X and Human Torch had teenage sidekicks / students. Both had disadvantages (one on wheelchair, other being an android). Both protected and served, and both believed in co-existence
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It's worth mentioning that Roy Thomas ultimately confirmed Toro and Namor to be mutants in Invaders series from the 70s
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End
before I post some bonus content, here is the source I used to learn some info
http://www.marvunapp.com/list/appmute.htm
some of the entries feel like a stretch, which is why I didn't include them (yet). however it's also the known list. it's very possible that there were more stories with characters like these, it's just that we don't know about them. the list keeps growing.
Bonus content 1
While Savage Land was first established in X-Men #10. There was this short Vision story (the original character) that was later retconned to take place in Savage Land. Again, in Marvel Atlas.
Whoever made that handbook was a fascinating specimen
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ALSO, BEFORE I REACH PAGE 10
I am thinking about storytiming Captain Britan, as with some Dracula stories written by Claremont, as they established the Excalibur cast
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BEHOLD!
The article that started the multi-million franchise
"How Nuclear Radiation Can Change Our Race"
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please bump, b t w
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Toro is now an Inhuman
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dayum, I feel like some master of the ceremony
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when I was asking for bump, I wasn't asking for insults
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also, I wanted to show how retarded the current retcon is, considering that his original story from the 30s clearly portrays him as having some "weird", "unspecified", "uncanny" powers during puberty.
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Aaand that's it. I guess, albeit I might search through some archives for some rarities.
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Children of the Atom had telepathic and mind power mutants,it's a old novel.
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some yes, other not.
classic mutants were closer to zombies, ie. toxic, radiated, deformed cannibals. not necessarily with powers, but more of a body horror freaks
I know, I will storytime some bits and pieces from alter ego 120 (fanzine by Roy Thomas), but give me a while.
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sounds like toxic crusaders or ninja turtles.
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well, toxic crusaders WERE mutants.
and in regards to ninja turtles, aren't they actually called "Teenage MUTANT Ninja Turtles"?
some excerpts related to this thread from Alter Ego 120
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Ultra tier cuck.
Creator of Namor coloring X-Men #81 :3
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Hey, this is pretty cool. I like it. Thassalright by me.
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I am wondering about doing Captain Britain storytime as a pre-Excalibur that would go as a spin-off to your threads (in the tradition x-books).
I only wonder when should I start.
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Oh yeah, Captain Britain, I couldn't be assed to find that stuff kek
I'd say wait until I finish Vol 4 since Excalibur starts towards the end of Vol 5.
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Okay. I will probably skip some of the early issues, especially if they are not featuring Betsy, and Black Knight / Cap Brit crossover, but I certainly am going to storytime the Alan Moore era, and Alan Davis' "Before Excalibur" TPB
so... things to come
partial this (mostly first half)
partial this (selected issues)
complete this (will use X-Men Archives scans)
and complete this
in total, it's going to be 3 threads I guess
I also do consider storytiming in future some selected issues of New Warriors, Power Pack, Ka-Zar (especially with Belasco) and Namor (Byrne's era), but I would have to decide which issues.
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Sounds cool to me, since I wasn't planning to cover any of that stuff. Go right ahead, you have my, err, blessing (as if you needed that lol)
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>Apparently Goodman didn't like the name Mutants
oh wow a good decision from Goodman. The man who told Lee to never do another Spider-Man story after Amazing Fantasy because he was sure no one would like it
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he wanted to cancel spidey and another marvel book i can't remember maybe thor before they even started
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Pretty sure it was The Incredible Hulk
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Sweet
