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Episode 7: The Bomb In Man’s Heart Today we’ll be covering Fantastic Four (1961) 62 & 63, and X-Men (1963) 53 Preface: Covering the first appearances of Blastaar-The Living Bomb Burst Dark Ages of X-Men Fantastic Four 62: “--And One Shall Save Him!” Reed is in the Negative Zone following a confrontation with Sandman Ben talks to Reed on the Trans-Barrier Phone and tells Reed that as long as there is life there is hope but Reed is despondent Reed is headed for the Earth’s explosive belt! Crystal of the Inhumans seeks air from the Inhuman Royals In the Negative Zone, Art Deco red shirts pitch some dangerous cargo into the explosive belt fearing that he will still escape, but relieved that he is heavily sedated The discarded person ends up on the same space rock as Mr. Fantastic Reed pontificates Crystal convinces the Royal Family to send Triton to assist Automatic Translators are a thing, thank goodness! Reed is rescued thanks to the Inhuman! Fantastic Four 63: “Blastaar, the Living Bomb-Burst!” The F4 are immediately attacked Blastaar has followed Reed through the portal and has teamed up with Sandman Bedlam ensues Our heroes manage to get a disabling helmen onto Blastaar and knock him out and pitch him back into the Negative Zone X-Men 53: “The Rage of Blastaar!” Blastaar gets all kinds of extra while floating around in the Negative Zone This is our intro to the X-Men. Cyclops-Scott Summers; Marvel Girl-Jean Grey; Iceman-Bobby Drake; Hank McCoy-Beast; Warren Worthington III-Angel Professor X is recently inhumed and Jean is trying to learn to fill his shoes with some high-tech machinery which will change her thoughts into radio-waves This goes badly and Blastaar escapes into our world The X-Men try to stop him but he uses finger-blasts to fly into the air to beat up Angel Cyclops becomes Flyclops using his optic blasts… how is this not a thing he does more? Iceman gets extra YIKES Jean has Iceman make ice statues that she animates using her telekinesis to attack Blastaar with “Wherever men live with hate in their hearts--Blastaar lives there too!” If you want to read the issues we covered today you can find them collected in: Essential Fantastic Four Vol 3 Marvel Masterworks Fantastic Four Vol 7 Fantastic Four Epic Collections Vol 4 Fantastic Four Omnibus Vol 3 Essential Classic X-Men Vol. 2 Marvel Masterworks The X-Men Vol 5 X-Men Epic Collections Vol 3 X-men Omnibus Vol 2 Comixology and Marvel Unlimited Ask your local library. If you would like to know more about Blastaar: Marvel Two-in-One (1975) 75 (Not available digitally) Annihilation, all of them GO READ X-MEN! Shout-out to Crushing Krisis, with ComicBookDB gone, his work is some of the most comprehensive! Creators of these issues: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Joe Sinnott, Stan Goldberg, Sam Rosen, Arnold Drake, Barry Windsor-Smith, Michael Dee, Herb Cooper, Mike Esposito Find us on Twitter @ArtifactsOfI and ArtifactsOfInfinity.com