Editor’s note: Bronze Age Essentials uses Marvel’s inexpensive B&W Essentials volumes to sequentially review extended runs of Marvel comics from the 1970s and ’80s.
X-MEN #112 (Cover by George Pérez and Bob Layton)
The idea of trapping the X-Men in a tiny circus wagon, then having Magneto hyper-levitate it to Antarctica (while simultaneously safely ejecting Mesmero into the Amazon), is so goofy it’s genius. The X-Men end up in Magneto’s secret base there, then try to escape. Read it to see what happens!
Now we’re cooking with fire. However, Phoenix’s power here is battery-like, so if she uses up all her charge, she fizzles out. I know someone megapowerful needs a weakness, but how about something more unconventional (or less sexist?), e.g., overuse entails strange spacetime effects?
Grade: B+
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Now we’re cooking? That’s exactly what I was going to say when I saw this cover! This really does kick off one of the better story arcs in the Claremont/Bryne run.
I will have to check my back issues of X-MEN and go over them and then start to catch up on some of these gems.