Review by Paul Steven Brown
“Curse of the Mutants - Part One”
Writer: Victor Gischler
Penciler: Paco Medina
Inker: Juan Vlasco
Colorist: Marte Gracia
Letterer: Joe Caramagna
Published by Marvel Comics
Way back in the ‘60s, Stan Lee needed a new concept on which to hang a team of teenage superheroes he had created. At the time radiation was a nice, modern excuse to empower characters with unique gifts that allowed them to fight crime. Usually this was employed though the bite of an eradiated spider, gamma bomb explosion, or cosmic rays. He took the easy way out and decided that this new team, the X-Men, were mutants and they were born with their powers that would lay dormant until adolescences. Thus, in late 1963
X-Men #1 hit the stands. The book is still around, having been renamed
Uncanny X-Men at some point in the ‘80s.