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Never forget. (Panel from X-Men #193. Art by John Romita, Jr. and Dan Green.)In X-MEN #192, Professor X was the victim of a hate crime, attacked and left for dead by a group of anti-mutant college students. When he woke up in the care of the subway-dwelling Morlocks, he found that he’d been outfitted in studded leather straps, with spikes and piercings. According to Jim Shooter, writer Chris Claremont had initially wanted to dress him in “transvestite gear” for the story. “He had this thing for bondage and fetish,” said editor Annie Nocenti. “He wanted to run a story line where Xavier wanted to wear women’s clothes and I said, ‘No fucking way.’” 


I own *all* of these issues. 


Never forget. (Panel from X-Men #193. Art by John Romita, Jr. and Dan Green.)

In X-MEN #192, Professor X was the victim of a hate crime, attacked and left for dead by a group of anti-mutant college students. When he woke up in the care of the subway-dwelling Morlocks, he found that he’d been outfitted in studded leather straps, with spikes and piercings. According to Jim Shooter, writer Chris Claremont had initially wanted to dress him in “transvestite gear” for the story. “He had this thing for bondage and fetish,” said editor Annie Nocenti. “He wanted to run a story line where Xavier wanted to wear women’s clothes and I said, ‘No fucking way.’”

I own *all* of these issues. 

(via brianmichaelbendis)


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    This was one of the funnier Xavier comics I’ve read.
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    oh, that Claremont!
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    Anyone surprised by this? Anyone at all?
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    Mais pelo texto abaixo do q pelo desenho: Ann Nocenti comentando os elementos trans-sexy-gay que
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    I knew it. Been saying this for years.
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    That would have been too fucking weird. I like Chris Claremont but some of his ideas are just too….out there. Like...