Appearing in "Assault on -- Fortress Magneto!"
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Synopsis for "Assault on -- Fortress Magneto!"
Bridging material.
Appearing in "The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants!"
X-Men #4
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (First appearance)
- Toad (Mortimer Toynbee) (First appearance)
- Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff) (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff) (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Mastermind (Jason Wyngarde) (First appearance)
- Magneto (Max Eisenhardt) (Main story and flashback)
- Magneto's Army (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Two unnamed businessmen
- Transian townspeople (Only in flashback)
- Santo Marcan citizens
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Mutants (Main story and flashback)
- Pigs (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Cows (Mentioned)
- Flies (Mentioned)
- Seagulls (Mentioned)
- Sheep (Mentioned)
- Spiders (Mentioned)
- Rats (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- North America
- United States of America
- New York
- Shipping Line's Office (Unnamed)
- United States of America
- Atlantic Ocean
- Bermuda Triangle (First appearance)
- Magneto's Uncharted Island Base (First appearance)
- Bermuda Triangle (First appearance)
- Europe (Only in flashback)
- South America
- Santo Marco (First appearance)
- Magneto's Palace (First appearance)
- Santo Marco (First appearance)
- North America
- Astral Plane
Items:
Vehicle:
- Stolen Navy freighter
Synopsis for "The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants!"
X-Men #4
The X-Men are in the middle of their latest training session. Marvel Girl is given the task of lifting a lid from a box using her telekinetic powers. Once it is opened, she finds a cake stashed inside! Professor Xavier explains that it has been one year since classes first started at the school, and he felt that the date should be celebrated.
Meanwhile, four other mutants, known as Toad, Mastermind, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, are seen having dinner. Mastermind tries to impress the Scarlet Witch, but she is not interested in him. Mastermind threatens her, but Quicksilver intervenes to protect his sister. Magneto is elsewhere, seen stealing a freighter and returning it to his secret headquarters somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. When Magneto returns, Toad informs him that Quicksilver and Mastermind were fighting. Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch tell Magneto that they do not want to be members of his group anymore, but Magneto informs them that they are forever in his debt. The group has a flashback to a town in Europe where Magneto saves the Scarlet Witch from an angry mob that wants to kill her for burning down a barn with her mutant powers.
Magneto and his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants use the stolen freighter to attack the small nation of Santo Marco in South America. Professor Xavier learns of the attack and contacts Magneto on the astral plane using his telepathic powers. Professor Xavier and Magneto dispute their different views on mutant and human relations; Professor Xavier believes that they should coexist with one another, while Magneto believes that homo-superior should rule the world. Mastermind creates an imaginary army to frighten Santo Marco's populace so that the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants can easily take over the country.
Professor Xavier and the X-Men travel to Santo Marco under the guise of an American professor and his students on a goodwill mission. Once they are in the country, the X-Men change into their costumes and attack the Brotherhood. Mastermind tries to scare the X-Men away by creating an illusion of a fire wall in the X-Men's path. Professor Xavier realizes that the fire is not real, so he enters it to show his students that there is nothing to fear.
The X-Men devise a plan to attack the Brotherhood, but do not realize that the palace door has been booby trapped with a bomb. Just before Beast opens the door, Professor Xavier senses the danger and hurls himself in front of the X-Men to protect them! The Brotherhood escape from the palace, but not before Quicksilver disarms a second bomb intended to destroy the entire nation along with the X-Men. Professor Xavier regains consciousness only to learn that his telepathic powers were damaged by the explosion.
Appearing in "And the Mob Cried...Vengeance!"
X-Men #45
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Anti-Mutant mob
- Jack
- Charlie (First appearance)
- Numerous unnamed others
Other Characters:
- Nassau County Police Department (First appearance)
- Nassau County Sheriff (First appearance)
Races and Species:
Locations:
Items:
Vehicles:
- Suzy (First appearance)
Synopsis for "And the Mob Cried...Vengeance!"
X-Men #45
Continued from last issue...
Cyclops is attempting to break young Bobby Drake out of jail after he's been arrested for defending himself against a school bully with his mutant powers. However, Bobby, trusting in the justice system, refuses to leave with Cyclops knowing that the courts will find him innocent. However, the townspeople have other ideas in mind, namely lynching the young mutant so that they do not have to deal with his menace again.
As a mob organizes and prepares to attack, Cyclops goads Bobby into a fight, knocking them out into the streets where they begin to fight each other before the gathered crowd. When Bobby manages to get a moment to get away from Cyclops, the young boy flees to the docks with Scott and the mob following. When the mob attempts to shoot both mutants, Cyclops uses his optic blast to break the pier and land the mob into the water.
Catching up with Bobby, their fight resumes and the two fight to a stand still ending with both collapsing out of breath. With their guard down, one of the men in the mob manages to get the drop on Bobby with a gun trained on him ready to fire.
This story is continued next issue...