The original X-Men members that were created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, showing their original designĮarly X-Men issues introduced the original team composed of Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Angel, and Iceman, along with their archenemy Magneto and his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants featuring Mastermind, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, and Toad. X-Men, for EX-tra power!" Publication history Original roster one which ordinary humans do not!! That is why I call my students. The original explanation for the name, as provided by Xavier in The X-Men #1 (1963), is that mutants "possess an extra power. Within the Marvel Universe, the X-Men are widely regarded to have been named after Professor Xavier himself.
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Lee devised the series title after Marvel publisher Martin Goodman turned down the initial name, "The Mutants," stating that readers would not know what a "mutant" was. I felt that if we train the mutants our way, they'll help us – and not only help us, but achieve a measure of growth in their own sense. Possibly, radiation, if it is beneficial, may create mutants that'll save us instead of doing us harm. Of course, it was the natural thing to do, instead of disorienting or alienating people who were different from us, I made the X-Men part of the human race, which they were. What would you do with mutants who were just plain boys and girls and certainly not dangerous? You school them. The X-Men, I did the natural thing there. I said to myself, 'Why don't I just say they're mutants? They are born that way. In 2004, Lee recalled, "I couldn't have everybody bitten by a radioactive spider or exposed to a gamma ray explosion. In 1963, with the success of Spider-Man, the Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, and the Fantastic Four, co-creator Stan Lee wanted to create another group of superheroes but did not want to have to explain how they got their powers. The X-Men have been also adapted to a number of television shows, movies, and video games. The X-Men's archenemy is Magneto, a mutant with magnetic abilities who leads a mutant supremacist group known as the Brotherhood of Mutants. Professor X runs a school for mutant children out of his mansion in Westchester, New York, which secretly is also the headquarters of the X-Men. They are led by Charles Xavier, also known as Professor X, a powerful telepath. The X-Men are a paramilitary group of mutants that fights for peace and equality between normal humans and mutants. In the Marvel Universe, mutants are humans who are born with natural superhuman abilities, and most normal humans fear and hate them. Created by artist/co-plotter Jack Kirby and writer/editor Stan Lee, the characters first appeared in The X-Men #1 (September 1963) and formed one of the most recognizable and successful franchises of Marvel Comics, appearing in numerous books, television shows, films, and video games. The X-Men are a fictional team of superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, Westchester County, New York (historically) Variant cover of X-Men Legacy #275 (December 2012) by Mark Brooks depicting Rogue, Wolverine, Cyclops, Namor the Sub-Mariner, Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat (with her dragon Lockheed), Pixie, Storm, Angel, Cannonball, Emma Frost, Rachel Summers, Hope Summers, Magneto, Psylocke, Beast, Colossus, Magik, Gambit and Iceman, Doop