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I have decided that you, the X-Man known as Cyclops, shall be group leader until I return!

—Professor X

Appearing in "The Return of the Blob"

Reprint of the 1st story from
X-Men #7

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  • Numerous unnamed carnies and carnival guests
  • Jumbo the elephant
  • Coffee A Go-Go patrons
  • Sam Hill (Invoked)
  • Romeo (Mentioned)

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  • X-Men jetcopter (Destruction)
  • Magna-Car (First appearance)

Synopsis for "The Return of the Blob"

Reprint of the 1st story from
X-Men #7
Professor Xavier takes a photograph of his students during their graduation. Afterward, he informs them that they must continue their fight against evil mutants without him, while he takes care of some unfinished business. He tells his students that he will select a new leader from amongst them soon.
First appearance of Cerebro

First appearance of Cerebro

Across town at another mansion, the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants regroups. Mastermind and the Scarlet Witch are the first to arrive. Mastermind offers the Scarlet Witch a life of luxury, but she refuses since she cannot stand him. Magneto and the rest of the group arrive.

Back at the school, Professor Xavier asks Cyclops to accompany him to a previously off-limits section of the school. There he shows Cyclops his invention, Cerebro, which is used to detect mutant brainwave activity. Cyclops wonders why a telepath such as Professor Xavier would need such a device, so Professor Xavier informs him that it is intended to be used by the new leader of the X-Men, Cyclops. Cyclops questions his mentor's decision, considering Angel's aggressiveness and Beast's intelligence, so Professor Xavier informs him that it is because of Cyclops' leadership abilities. The next morning, the X-Men awaken to learn that Professor Xavier has already departed. They congratulate Scott on becoming their new leader. The group goes to New York City that night to celebrate, but Scott refuses, saying that he has to stay and monitor Cerebro.

At a carnival, Magneto seeks out the Blob, suspecting that he is a mutant, due to his inability to be moved by an elephant or a cannonball. Magneto tries to perform a mind probe of the Blob, but is stopped by a mental block put on him by Professor Xavier.[1] Suddenly the Blob's manager appears and tries to fend off Magneto, not wanting him to talk to his client. Magneto orders the Brotherhood to attack the carnival workers. They all run off, leaving Magneto alone with the Blob. Magneto orders the Blob to join the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.

At first the Blob refuses and attacks Magneto. Magneto then magnetically lifts pipes from under the ground, hurling the Blob through the air. The force of impact from landing loosens the mental block in his mind, and his memory returns. Wanting revenge against the X-Men, the Blob agrees to join the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.

At the mansion, Cerebro's alarm suddenly goes off, alerting Cyclops to the Blob's recent activities. Cyclops tries to contact the rest of the X-Men, successfully reaching Warren. Warren gathers Hank and Bobby so they can meet back up with Scott and Jean.

Magneto challenges the X-Men to a fight at an abandoned factory. Cyclops' leadership skills quickly show, as he leads the X-Men in successful counter attacks to everything that the evil mutants throw at them, including missiles. With the X-Men standing together, Magneto fires a second round of missiles at the group, even though the Blob is standing next to them.

The X-Men hide behind the bulky villain and let him take the full force of the missiles. Magneto orders the rest of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants to retreat, seeing that his plans have failed. The X-Men offer to help the Blob, since his teammates abandoned him. The Blob refuses, telling them that he's fed up with fighting other people's fights, and that he just wants to return to the carnival.

Appearing in "Bullpen Bedlam!"

Featured Characters:

  • Marvel Comics
    • Hass Yusuf
    • Bernie

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Synopsis for "Bullpen Bedlam!"

  • Synopsis not yet written

Appearing in "Journey To The Centre Of The Ants!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Devil Dinosaur #5

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  • Sky-Demons
  • Swarmers

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  • Land Crusher

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  • Sky Demons spaceship

Synopsis for "Journey To The Centre Of The Ants!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Devil Dinosaur #5
Moon-Boy finds himself locked in a glass case, and the aliens knock him unconscious in order to further investigate his intelligence and its future potential. Meanwhile, Devil Dinosaur, White-Hair and Stone-Hands are on there way to the Tower of Death when they are attacked by two of the aliens. Using a geyser, Devil seemingly kills them and they carry on there journey, he in fact has only destroyed one of them and as they arrive at the tower the second one catches up and attempts to kill the trio again. Just as the alien begins to charge up he is destroy by Swarmers, which are giant ants that have the tower as there home.

Retruning to the ship, Moon-Boy is still being experimented on and the aliens find that he has the greatest intelligence potential of all the races they have analysed. Worrying about the same potential for intelligence possible in Devil, they send out a land crusher to destroy him.

Back with Devil and the others, the swarmers have begun there attack on the trio for trespassing, and climbing onto the back of the Devil. They all head inside the tower with White-Hair speculating that Devil had done this before as he is largely able to avoid the bulk of swarmers. Just as they are discovered by the Swarmers, the land crusher destroys the tower, which sends the Swarmers into a frenzy and they attack the crusher destroying it, with the swarmers then carrying onto the spacecraft. Leaving the trio alone, tired and weary from there ordeal.

Appearing in "Today Earth Died!"

Reprint of the 2nd story from
Strange Tales #168

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  • Vaengr (Dream) (First appearance)

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  • Humans
  • Robots (Mentioned in narration or thoughts)
  • Unidentified alien species (Dream)

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  • Warp-Vest (Mentioned in narration or thoughts)
  • Prism of Miracles (First appearance; dream)
  • Mold Coccoon Pellet (First appearance; dream)

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Synopsis for "Today Earth Died!"

Reprint of the 2nd story from
Strange Tales #168
In this surreal story, Nick Fury appears to dream that a gold skinned alien lands in New York and no one is able to stop him from annihilating the earth, or was this a strange premonition of things to come?

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