Comics Corner: The X-Men 35

Title: The X-Men

Issue Number: 35

Release Date: August 1967

Highlights

• When you only pop into a title here and there, the editor's notes which reference specific issues really help to bring you up to speed quick - Such is the case with the one in this issue which points to a scenario from issue 32 which saw Professor Xavier being taken by Factor Three, which explains why the X-Men are currently looking for the group 
• Events unfold after The Amazing Spider-Man issue 52, and Spider-Man makes reference to his battle with Kingpin from that issue
• The X-Men attack Spider-Man and he beats them all down
• The X-Men try the old, "Oops sorry, I thought you were someone else," routine after the fight, and Spider-Man tells them all to pound sand

Low Points

• Banshee sends a message to the rest of the team, before blacking out form a recent battle, which states, "Beware the spider," which lead to the team attacking Spider-Man
• Does every super hero in the Marvel universe attack first and ask questions later? Are they all really that dumb?

Oddities

• Issue was released one full month before The Amazing Spider-Man issue 52, and essentially ruins the cliffhanger of issue 51 (released the same month as this X-Men issue) where Spider-Man has just been defeated and knocked out by Kingpin

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Comics Corner: The X-Men 27

Title: The X-Men

Issue Number: 27

Release Date: December 1966

Highlights

• Puppet Master creates a puppet of Professor Xavier in hopes of taking control of him and the professor instantly denigrates it with a psychic shield
• Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch make their first appearance in The X-Men since issue 4
• Professor Xavier asks Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch to join the team, they decline because they are full fledged Avengers
• As Beast and Iceman change into their X-Men garb to stop a robber, they emerge to find Spider-Man has already taken care of the problem for them
• Spider-Man meets the X-Men (Beast and Iceman) for the first time
• Beast asks Spider-Man to join the team, but he declines
• Mimic is invited to join the X-Men team
• Jean Grey provides the X-Men with redesigned costumes
• Cyclops steps down as leader of the team and the position is given to Mimic by Professor Xavier
• Puppet Master creates a puppet of Mimic to control him and Mimic seemingly defeats them all
• However, they intentionally held back so that Professor Xavier could discover who had tried to control his mind and who was currently controlling Mimic's

Low Points

• Puppet Master goes a very round about way of trying to defeat the X-Men

Oddities

• None

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