When Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created Magneto back in the sixties, he was a pretty clear-cut villain. He believed the mutant race, a.k.a. Homo superior, were more genetically advanced than Homo sapiens ...

This happened because the director said one day, “Why couldn’t Xavier just make Magneto go to sleep or something?” No one had an answer. Since then, the comics have run with this as the reason why ...

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When Chris Claremont took over as Uncanny X-Men writer with the title’s revival in 1975, it was a year before the mutants fought against their original foe once again. But when they did, there was ...