Marvel Masterworks #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis volume of Marvel Masterworks collects the earliest adventures of the original X-Men, reprinting issues #1-10 from 1963-1964. It features the debut of the team—Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Angel, and Iceman—as they battle foes like Magneto, the Vanisher, and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, all under the creative direction of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. These foundational stories established the mutant mythos and the team's struggle for acceptance in a world that fears them.
In this pivotal 1987 issue of Marvel Masterworks #3, the X-Men face a turning point when Beast, disillusioned after a violent attack by a mutant-hating mob, leaves the team to become a professional wrestler. His path crosses with Unus, a mutant whose power to repel all physical contact makes him both feared and isolated, as he seeks to join Magneto’s Brotherhood. Written by Stan Lee and brought to life with dynamic art by Jack Kirby—inked by Chic Stone and colored by Evelyn Stein—the story explores identity, isolation, and the cost of power, all while a mysterious machine built by Beast threatens to alter the balance of strength in ways no one anticipated. The cover, a striking collaboration by Jack Kirby, Sol Brodsky, and Frank Giacoia, captures the tension of a team at a crossroads.
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After being attacked by a mutant hating crowd, Beast gets fed up and quits the X-Men. He becomes a professional wrestler but meets Unus, a mutant who cannot be touched. Unus is trying to join Magneto's Brotherhood so he takes on the X-Men. The X-Men barely fend him off and find Beast has constructed a machine that will actually increase Unus' powers. The X-Men try to prevent Hank from using the machine, but, once Unus has been zapped, he finds that he cannot even eat without the food being repelled out of his hands. Beast returns him to normal and Unus promises to will steer clear of Magneto.
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