Professor X is a Jerk!: Playing Possum

Professor Charles Xavier has been injured! He's lost his mighty mutant mental power! Well, that brings the mutant count down to 197, right? Also: minus one jerk!


Panels from [Uncanny] X-Men #4 (March 1964), script by Stan Lee, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Paul Reinman, letters by Artie Simek

Now it's time for the X-Men to care for him...for the rest of their lives! And as we all know, half of them will come back from the dead two or three times, so that's a pretty long time.


Panels from [Uncanny] X-Men #5 (May 1964), script by Stan Lee, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Paul Reinman, letters by Sam Rosen

In a comic book filled fuller of angst than a Twinkie is with Polysorbate 60, the X-Men are pretty broken up about their shiny-headed instructor. Scott can't even manage the strength to get up and shut a door, Hank has problems focusing on Tropic of Cancer, and Bobby takes longer than usual to point to someone's rear!



But guess what? Xavier was just fooling. He hasn't lost his powers at all! And check out that smug piehole as he sparks up and begins to give his teenager students second-hand smoke cancer!



And that's another reason why Professor X is a jerk.