The very first page and Iceman is pole dancing.
The first seven pages of issue #1 has the boys training, and the reader gets a great sense of their power sets.
Eye blasts!
Making things cold and becoming a snowman!
Flying!
Being good looking!
Sigh. Stan Lee never did know how to write for females.
Agility! And basket ball!
Incidentally, sports will be a big part of the X-Men comic. Chris Claremont loved to show the heroes playing.
We also see Professor X in his typical top-down leadership style.
It’s also suggested that his telepathy is not simply broadcasting thought–the team had to learn to “read” Professor X’s mental commands.
We also get a glimpse of how X is kind of creepily attracted to young Jean Grey. All the teen boys are, too, of course.
The very first issue also introduces Magneto.
Even from the beginning he’s a pompous ass who is high on power.
No real depth to him yet. He’s just a bastard.
And look: Professor X got them together so they could be his footservants.
So, issue #1 is full of promise: Interesting characters, a great villain, and a premise that teen readers of the day could certainly relate to: Being in school. No indication yet of how the book would morph into an allegory about civil rights, but we’ve got time.
The days when The Beast spoke like just another Ben Grimm, before he swallowed his Thesaurus! I guess Bobby being cold when all the others were drooling over Jean was the wiggle room/rationale for him to be portrayed as gay years later! When was the last time anyone called Scott, Slim?!
Wolverine did it all the time. Don’t know if he still does–I haven’t read a “new” comic in a while. Spend too much time going over these old one.