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Uncanny X-Men (1963)
Uncanny X-Men (1963-2011) #4
The Beast again faces the perils of the Danger Room. He is eventually tripped up by a grabbing a false rope to try to swing over a water hazard. Iceman is next through the gauntlet but is too cocky at his young age and is quickly defeated. Angel humiliates him by hanging him from a wall hook. Once Iceman is rescued by Marvel Girl it is time for her test. She opens a box for Professor X which hides a cake. It has been one year since the X-men were first formed.
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First published March 10, 1964
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Stan Lee
7,562 books2,344 followersStan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber) was an American writer, editor, creator of comic book superheroes, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics.
With several artist co-creators, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Thor as a superhero, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Daredevil, the Silver Surfer, Dr. Strange, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Scarlet Witch, The Inhumans, and many other characters, introducing complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books. He subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation.
With several artist co-creators, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Thor as a superhero, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Daredevil, the Silver Surfer, Dr. Strange, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Scarlet Witch, The Inhumans, and many other characters, introducing complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books. He subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation.
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September 25, 2019
The best so far. Magneto is back with a new gang of evil mutants: Toad, Mastermind, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver.
In a new attempt to take control of the Earth, Magneto steals a freighter to attack a south american nation.
In a new attempt to take control of the Earth, Magneto steals a freighter to attack a south american nation.
July 7, 2019
As I slowly make my way through the classic X-Men stories, I’m really taken by this one. It feels like Lee and Kirby are hitting their stride with this new story and generating lasting plot. This feels like a real X-Men story and not the more campy comic book stories from the previous three issues. It was very good.
Now if we can get past the unneeded sexist jokes sprinkled throughout I can enjoy these books without the guilt.
Now if we can get past the unneeded sexist jokes sprinkled throughout I can enjoy these books without the guilt.
October 15, 2017
its interesting to see which creations continued to exist in all of x-men comic and what other creations failed to compete and continue existing
April 22, 2015
the brotherhood debuts!
June 20, 2019
3.5/5 STARS
January 16, 2025
Quicksilver y Scarlet Witch mis niños…
August 22, 2022
My Marvelous year #3: 1964 pt 1
Read for Magneto! The Scarlet Witch! Quicksilver! Toad and Mastermind kissing Magneto’s ass!
Read for Magneto! The Scarlet Witch! Quicksilver! Toad and Mastermind kissing Magneto’s ass!
August 26, 2020
Give it a rest, Magneto. Now he's brought some new villains and it just got more interesting
December 12, 2017
Magneto has formed his own group of mutants and Prof X takes the X-men to stop them. Magneto wins the battle and an explosion somehow strips Prof X of his mental super powers.
The new mutants in Magneto's group include Scarlet Witch and her brother Quicksilver. The Scarlet Witch is in debt to Magento because she was being hunted by villagers because of her magic powers and Magneto saved her life. It's so cool to see where some of my favorite characters came from.
The new mutants in Magneto's group include Scarlet Witch and her brother Quicksilver. The Scarlet Witch is in debt to Magento because she was being hunted by villagers because of her magic powers and Magneto saved her life. It's so cool to see where some of my favorite characters came from.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 13, 2015
Two things you need to know:
The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants's first appearance and
The Maximoff twins' first appareance.MY PRECIOUS MAXIMOFF TWINS SO TORN BETWEEN DOING GOOD AND PAYING OFF WANDA'S "DEBT" TO MAGNETO. PRECIOUS CINNAMON ROLLS, LOOK AT THEM STICKING TOGETHER AND PROTECTING ONE ANOTHER.
The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants's first appearance and
The Maximoff twins' first appareance.
February 7, 2015
X-Men becomes breathtaking in its ability to excite as Stan Lee leaves the audience on an incredible cliff hanger.
September 27, 2015
I enjoyed this one. The appearance of the Brotherhood really spiced things up. Great to see Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. :)
May 9, 2016
GEMELOS MAXIMOFF
December 27, 2019
This was a good one. Much more depth to the story and interactions.
February 22, 2021
Uncanny X-Men (1963-2011) #4 was originally published on March 1, 1964 and was written by the legendary Stan Lee, with penciling by Jack Kirby, inking by Paul Reinman, and lettering by Art Simek. I love the use of alliteration on the credits page near the beginning of the comic book, with phrases such as sensational script by Stan Lee and legible lettering by Art Simek. (It makes me wonder if alliteration was pretty common back during this age of comic books because I recently read an Avengers comic book from the '70s which also made use of it.) This X-Men comic book, being from the mid '60s, is fairly cheesy, with several characters even narrating their thoughts aloud and announcing the actions that they are about to take, and the art is pretty much what you would expect from a comic book from this time period - not all that well defined and with a lot of relatively corny costumes (so much yellow which I guess kind of closely represented the X-Men during the early days). Uncanny X-Men (1963-2011) #4 features the first appearance of Scarlet Witch / Wanda Maximoff which was its main appeal for me. As a huge fan of WandaVision, the new television series on Disney+, a newfound love for and appreciation of the character has been realized for me, so I have been eagerly reading some of the material featuring her. With this, as I said, being her first appearance in the comic books, I was curious to see how she was introduced. The comic book very briefly provides some background information regarding her and her brother Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff), how Magneto rescued them from a hateful mob, and I was reminded of a comic book that I read very recently - Sean McKeever's Avengers Origins: Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver. In my review of that comic book, I wrote about how I was pretty sure that the origin story offered in that issue was not wholly original as I was pretty sure that I was already at least vaguely familiar with it, and I am fairly certain that this comic book is why. Although this was my first time reading it, I listen to an X-Men podcast titled Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men, and I recall their talking about this issue. Wanda also prompts just exactly the amount of misogyny and sexism from some of her male peers as you would expect from a story from this time period, but she puts them right in their places when it happens which made me happy to see. I overall enjoyed this comic book, although, like I said, there is plenty of 1960s cheese to go around.
August 3, 2019
X-MEN #1-8 (The X-Men's First Arc)
The political and idealogical subtext present in this comic book presents perhaps the greatest argument for their inclusion in larger literary canon; Stan Lee expresses something quite touching, compassionate, and profound in a time when all three were inherently absent from comic books. With his entry into the foray, he returned the medium to the maximum potential of what it was capable of; perhaps it is this intensely skilled craftsmanship to thank for the fact he revitalized a dying medium for decades to come... because this is not purely one of the most profound comic book arcs ever written:
it is quite simply one of the most profound BOOKS ever written.
It's interesting how Stan Lee structure's these character arcs around the metaphor of school; each issue starts with a training montage, with the Professor noting a specific flaw in their combat abilities each time. Then the issue ultimately culminates in the X-Men actually having to confront that combat flaw in order to defeat the villain of that issue... and they do, which shows character growth.
In accordance with this structure, each issue of this arc is tailor made for a specific member of the X-Men; each issue focusses on the weakness of a specific member, and he/she has to confront that weakness to overcome the villain and grow as a character. The arc ultimately culminates in each member of the X-Men having addressed their own unique weakness, until they are a stronger team as a result.
The strength, however, is not just the personalization separating each X-Member... it's the leader uniting them. Xavier is a leader that brings his family together; on the other hand, Magneto is a leader that tears his family apart. This dynamic of opposing leaders is a great metaphor for opposing philosophies. The X-Men fight for the philosophy that all peoples can live together in peace, which brings them together; the Brotherhood fight for the philosophy that some people can claim superiority over others, tearing them apart. It shows the philosophy of war is weaker than the philosophy of peace.
In fact, that's really the theme of this brilliant little series. We cannot "graduate" from our weakness as a country if we do not unite under the notion we can be united, lest we be divided under the notion we should be divided.
The political and idealogical subtext present in this comic book presents perhaps the greatest argument for their inclusion in larger literary canon; Stan Lee expresses something quite touching, compassionate, and profound in a time when all three were inherently absent from comic books. With his entry into the foray, he returned the medium to the maximum potential of what it was capable of; perhaps it is this intensely skilled craftsmanship to thank for the fact he revitalized a dying medium for decades to come... because this is not purely one of the most profound comic book arcs ever written:
it is quite simply one of the most profound BOOKS ever written.
It's interesting how Stan Lee structure's these character arcs around the metaphor of school; each issue starts with a training montage, with the Professor noting a specific flaw in their combat abilities each time. Then the issue ultimately culminates in the X-Men actually having to confront that combat flaw in order to defeat the villain of that issue... and they do, which shows character growth.
In accordance with this structure, each issue of this arc is tailor made for a specific member of the X-Men; each issue focusses on the weakness of a specific member, and he/she has to confront that weakness to overcome the villain and grow as a character. The arc ultimately culminates in each member of the X-Men having addressed their own unique weakness, until they are a stronger team as a result.
The strength, however, is not just the personalization separating each X-Member... it's the leader uniting them. Xavier is a leader that brings his family together; on the other hand, Magneto is a leader that tears his family apart. This dynamic of opposing leaders is a great metaphor for opposing philosophies. The X-Men fight for the philosophy that all peoples can live together in peace, which brings them together; the Brotherhood fight for the philosophy that some people can claim superiority over others, tearing them apart. It shows the philosophy of war is weaker than the philosophy of peace.
In fact, that's really the theme of this brilliant little series. We cannot "graduate" from our weakness as a country if we do not unite under the notion we can be united, lest we be divided under the notion we should be divided.
September 26, 2021
I was expecting Magneto to be Wanda's father but as I remember from a podcast he was actually not her father in the beginning and that's the storyline this comic follows(he essentially saves her from a witch trial thing in her village because the villagers accuse her of being a witch obviously because of human powers) and so far it's pretty boring so I'll give it to stars for the nostalgia factor and by that I mean the original X-Men storyline energy and the vintage art style.
I get that it's the 60's but Rhonda literally owing her life to a man does not look good to me and so does Petra having to protect her when in reality she's literally so much more powerful than he is.
The storytelling feels sloppy as the description of actions feels overly unnecessary and childish and magnetos ideology is thrown away as something out of the blue, and ideology of a madman which could be what they were actually going for but I would have preferred it to be something closer to movies Magneto where he has more depth and reasoning behind his Notions but I'm guessing it can be forgiven this particular situation because it's literally 1963 and I shouldn't be justification but here we are and this whole thing with X-Men and stuff was at its start. I get that the intentions were good around the "inferior to us people should not be our slaves" "oh how groundbreaking it's 1963" but while reading it now it's the BARE minimum. 60's Marvel do better.
Every out of the blue random announcement of bravery and what our next action will be is very poor writing but dude it's so cringy that it cracks me up.
Also the frog man? Lmao what is he even doing there? Were the writers on crck
And suddenly Magneto took over the nation under his dictatorship? Not that's good pacing lol
The action part got more interesting and redeemed the entire issue and pietro my beloved<3 saving the day again:)
Overall felt like a bugs bunny episode, damn you nostalgia factor
I get that it's the 60's but Rhonda literally owing her life to a man does not look good to me and so does Petra having to protect her when in reality she's literally so much more powerful than he is.
The storytelling feels sloppy as the description of actions feels overly unnecessary and childish and magnetos ideology is thrown away as something out of the blue, and ideology of a madman which could be what they were actually going for but I would have preferred it to be something closer to movies Magneto where he has more depth and reasoning behind his Notions but I'm guessing it can be forgiven this particular situation because it's literally 1963 and I shouldn't be justification but here we are and this whole thing with X-Men and stuff was at its start. I get that the intentions were good around the "inferior to us people should not be our slaves" "oh how groundbreaking it's 1963" but while reading it now it's the BARE minimum. 60's Marvel do better.
Every out of the blue random announcement of bravery and what our next action will be is very poor writing but dude it's so cringy that it cracks me up.
Also the frog man? Lmao what is he even doing there? Were the writers on crck
And suddenly Magneto took over the nation under his dictatorship? Not that's good pacing lol
The action part got more interesting and redeemed the entire issue and pietro my beloved<3 saving the day again:)
Overall felt like a bugs bunny episode, damn you nostalgia factor
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 6, 2024
I did not like this one, and even less so the subsequent arc for this early Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Magnetos is scaled so far back from his first outing that he feels like a very unserious villain. Of his cadre of lackeys, Toad and Mastermind aren’t very memorable, though I did like them all bickering with each other. Obviously, we also have Wanda and Pietro, who are evidently meant to be more interesting. I am unsure if their origins were explored prior to this in an alternate comic, but it would have been more satisfying to actually see the events of Magneto and Wanda, and the debt owed, rather than just being told about it. It would give us more upfront emotional investment in what is clearly a toxic relationship.
The whole plan of conquering a small nation with an illusionary army falls flat when it turns out Mastermind needs to maintain concentration for that to work, so why does the nation keep serving Magneto. And for all the proclamations that Magneto is all powerful, Mastermind does most of the heavy lifting, by far, in this issue. The whole idea feels half baked.
Most importantly, by this point Beast finally feels like Beast. There is also dialogue between Magneto and Xavier, which feels like the start of that idea of them being friends with different perspectives, though we’re certainly not there yet.
The whole plan of conquering a small nation with an illusionary army falls flat when it turns out Mastermind needs to maintain concentration for that to work, so why does the nation keep serving Magneto. And for all the proclamations that Magneto is all powerful, Mastermind does most of the heavy lifting, by far, in this issue. The whole idea feels half baked.
Most importantly, by this point Beast finally feels like Beast. There is also dialogue between Magneto and Xavier, which feels like the start of that idea of them being friends with different perspectives, though we’re certainly not there yet.
February 26, 2024
The previous issue was an improvement over the preceding ones, but this is an even better step up for the series. Introduced in X-Men #4 is the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants composed of Toad, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch and Mastermind, all led by Magneto. A dark reflection of the X-Men, the Brotherhood navigate similar inter-team tensions involving flirting with their sole female member and the managing of egos. This issue does a great job fleshing out some of the individual members, in particular, we learn about the history of Wanda and Pietro and how they've come to be in Magneto's service.
The Brotherhood make their first move by hijacking a freighter ship and launching an assault on Santo Marco. Xavier learns of the attack and tries to commune with Magneto in an astral plane, but Magneto rebuffs the negotiations believing that mutants were meant to rule. Using Mastermind's powers, the Brotherhood subdue Santo Marco which prompts the X-Men to respond. In the course of the conflict, Wanda and Pietro both show regard for the loss of innocent life, and in the last second before a dirty bomb is to go off, Pietro disarms it before fleeing with the rest of the Brotherhood. A perfect cap off to an issue foundational towards future X-Men stories.
The Brotherhood make their first move by hijacking a freighter ship and launching an assault on Santo Marco. Xavier learns of the attack and tries to commune with Magneto in an astral plane, but Magneto rebuffs the negotiations believing that mutants were meant to rule. Using Mastermind's powers, the Brotherhood subdue Santo Marco which prompts the X-Men to respond. In the course of the conflict, Wanda and Pietro both show regard for the loss of innocent life, and in the last second before a dirty bomb is to go off, Pietro disarms it before fleeing with the rest of the Brotherhood. A perfect cap off to an issue foundational towards future X-Men stories.
February 25, 2025
Not my favourite, however it was interesting to see how much this series has changed since the beginning! It feels like an entirely different story and I'm genuinely grateful someone made the choice to alter the plot at some point!! And to Chris Claremont for turning Magneto into a complex villain/anti-hero!
April 24, 2021
Magneto kembali. Bersama-sama anak buahnya, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Toad, dan Mastermind, ia menaklukkan sebuah negara. Profesor X dan para X-Men pergi ke negara itu untuk bertarung melawan Brotherhood of Mutants dan mengalahkan Magneto.
May 19, 2022
*Counting this as Uncanny X-Men #4 - #7
This is the first Uncanny X-Men story I’ve read, and I really really enjoyed it. I mainly read this for Scarlet Witch & Quicksilvers first appearance but I really enjoyed the story as a whole.
This is the first Uncanny X-Men story I’ve read, and I really really enjoyed it. I mainly read this for Scarlet Witch & Quicksilvers first appearance but I really enjoyed the story as a whole.
June 27, 2019
3,5 ⭐
February 5, 2022
Rating: 3,5
October 4, 2022
And so the crush on Quicksilver starts...
December 29, 2022
Magneto returns and this time he teams up with the scarlet witch, pietro, mastermind and toad. Prof x is harmed in battle.
October 8, 2023
pietro and wanda, forever my faves <3
January 10, 2024
The melodrama and exposition is maddening.
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