Inch High Mutant Guy

So, who's your favorite mutant in the Marvel Universe? Ask that question of a cross-section of fans and many of them will say Wolverine (unless, of course, Logan's the one who cross-sectioned them in the first place). Other perfectly respectable answers include Storm, Nightcrawler, The Beast, or Namor. Less acceptable answers: Gambit, Adam X, Maggott, Sam Guthrie's sister (what was her name? Cornhusk?), Krakoa, or former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Absolutely no one would answer "Cyclops."

My favorite mutant? Well, he appears in Captain America Annual #4, pulled straight from the way-out, wacky, and weird mind of Jack "The King" Kirby. And no, my fave mutant is not Magneto...
All panels from Captain America Annual #4 (1977), written and pencilled by Jack Kirby, inked by John Tartaglione and John Verpoorten, coloring by George Roussos, lettering by Jim Novak


...It's this guy:






The heck with another Wolverine or X-Teens spin-off...it's high time to give Tiny Mutant Who Lives In a Wristwatch Guy his own series. Bring him back as the new Professor X. Bring him back as the new X-pionage Secret Weapon. Heck, bring him back as The Beast's fashion consultant, I don't care. Just bring him back.

Jack Kirby's world: holy cow, it's amazing. I'm not certain I wanna live in The World of Kirby, but it's a heckuva place to spend a holiday, isn't it? Or, to paraphrase J. B. S. Haldane: "Not only is Jack Kirby's universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine."