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Warning : contains spoilers forGiant - Size Gwen Stacy # 1 !
Marvel’sSpider - Mankeeps his secret identity cautiously guard , and even Professor X of theX - Menguessed the humanity behind the mask completely wrongly - even as he thought the webslinger was actually a mutation . Peter Parker is something of an outlier among the many superheroes of the Marvel Universe - he did n’t get his powers from a mutation , he is n’t an Inhuman , an Eternal , or a extremity of any other team ( like the Fantastic Four ) that suffer a collective accident . Instead , he ’s alone - butGiant - Size Gwen Stacy # 1explains that the Adam - man almost recruited him into their ranks .
In the early days of the hug drug - Men , there were only four members : Cyclops , Angel , Beast and Iceman . The fifth -Jean Grey , alias Marvel Girl- arrived at Professor X ’s school in the first issue , snipe out the so - called First Class of students . As the year go on , more and more variation would join the squad ( specially with the release ofGiant - Size XTC - valet # 1 in 1975 ) , but the ten - Men were forced to physically attempt out additional mutation in the interim - either to save them from anti - mutant hysteria or to stop their flak on world .
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InGiant - Size Gwen Stacy # 1 , save by Christos Gate with artistic creation by Todd Nauck and colour by Rachelle Rosenberg , the Green Goblin is set to attack a football game where his business familiar may be located - but before that , Jean Grey , Beast and Iceman ascertain their seats and are on the outlook for Spider - Man . “[Midtown High ’s ] field general ’s incredibly agile . Professor X suppose they could be the same person,“says Jean , noting that this would n’t be the first mutant they found on a football bailiwick ( pertain to Beast ) . The Midtown eminent quarterback isnone other than Flash Thompson- who just so happen to be Spider - Man’sschool bullyand not Spider - Man himself .
Flash Thompson is not a mutant nor a superhero ( at least not yet ; in succeeding issues he would be inhale by Spider - Man to struggle in Vietnamand finally become Anti - Venom ) . But this is one example of Professor X ’s knowledge failing him in the worst possible way . In fact , he is so off the mark that the gathered go - piece terminate up saving the day without Spider - Man at all , and apace write off Flash as a campaigner for a next member of the team .
Spider - Man is not a mutant , but that has n’t stop theDaily Buglefrom report him as such whenthe X - Men ’s Resurrection of Christ protocols were discoveredby humanity . Professor X would go on to recruit hundred more mutants , and Spider - Man would eventually work with the decade - adult male on many occasions . But this is one representative where theX - Men’sleader , for all his vast knowledge and experience , guessedSpider - Man’sidentity and came up hilariously brusque .
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