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Events of 616

X-Men Masterworks Vol. 1

  • Professor X is introduced as are his first 4 X-Men members: Cyclops, Iceman, Angel, and Beast. Vol. 1 contains X-Men issues 1-10

  • They work on their skills in the Danger Room in Charles Xavier’s mansion known as Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters- a school for the gifted acting as cover for mutants

  • They welcome the 5th member: Jean Grey aka Marvel Girl

  • A sinister mutant named Magneto who has a grudge against homo sapiens takes control of Cape Citadel (space station)

  • He is defeated by the X-Men and flees 

  • They deal with a character named The Vanisher. Being able to teleport out of reach, the only way he is defeated us by Xavier making him forget who he is

  • The X-Men make an enemy of The Blob

  • We meet Magneto’s Brotherhood of Mutants, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, who are indebted to him for saving their lives, Toad, and Mastermind

  • Xavier and Magneto communicate on the astral plane and discuss their difference of opinions: the former; that mutants should defend mankind. The latter; that humans should be slaves to homo superior

  • Magneto and the Brotherhood abduct Angel and take him to Asteroid M: Magneto’s new base 

  • Asteroid M is destroyed as the X-Men land on Earth safely and the Brotherhood and Magneto land elsewhere 

  • Magneto attempts to recruit Namor the Sub-Mariner into the Brotherhood and fails

  • Xavier invents and constructs Cerebro- a machine designed to utilize his mental powers to recognize and locate mental mutant signatures

  • Cyclop is made group leader

  • After temporarily recruiting Blob into the Brotherhood and realizing that Magneto doesn’t care about his cohorts, he leaves

  • Professor X leaves to search for a being named Lucifer hiding in a cave in the Balkans

  • Lucifer is the one responsible for making Xavier a handicap

  • Lucifer has a bomb rigged to blow if his heart stops beating. Xavier tells the X-Men not to engage him. Meanwhile they have to prevent the Avengers from doing so since Thor’s hammer detected wavelengths from the bomb

  • After scuffling, the coming to an understanding, Xavier renders Lucifer unconscious so Cyclops can detonate the bomb safely

  • Xavier allows Lucifer to leave so they can settle their score another time

  • The X-Men meet Ka-Zar and Zabu in the so-called ‘savage land’- a tropical part of Antarctica frozen in time full of prehistoric creatures