Let’s dig a few pages from X-Men #7 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Here they introduced Cerebro, a mainstay of the X-mythos ever since. But while Cyclops and the Professor are having guy time with their geeky gadgets, Beast and Iceman are “enjoying a taste of the bohemian side of New York.” In just a few panels they become the stars of the beatnik bopper parade, and Hank gets his feet painted. Crazy, man, crazy!
X-Men 7: The First Cerebro, and a Beatnik Shin-dig!
28 Friday Sep 2012
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Funnily enough, Xavier calls it Cyberno in that same issue, just a few panels after he introduces it as Cerebro. A back-up story in X-Men #40 had Cyberno as a prototype for Cerebro.
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Good catch, Xpert! Lee, Kirby, Ditko and the gang cranked stories out so quickly and furiously in the 1960s that proofreading sometimes got tossed to the side – as in the classic “Peter Palmer” mistakes. We didn’t know about the Cyberno story in #40 so thank you!
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