Comics:X-Men Vol 1 53

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You are one who must learn thru sorrowful experience, I see! Then let it be so! Blastaar shall be your teacher!

-- Blastaar

Appearing in "The Rage of Blastaar!"

Featured Characters:

• The X-Men

• Cyclops (Scott "Cyke")
• Marvel Girl (Jean)
• Angel (Warren)
• Beast ("Hank")
• Iceman ("Bobby")

Villains:

• Blastaar

Locations:

• Negative Zone
• New York

• Westchester County

• Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters

Items:

• Cyclops' Visor, version 1
  
  

Synopsis for "The Rage of Blastaar!"

Blastaar (Earth-616) rages in his extradimensional prison. Meanwhile, Jean Grey is experimenting with a strange machine in the X-mansion. It overloads, knocking Jean out briefly. The X-men, distracted by Jean, notice too late that the machine didn't stop working, and has opened a portal out of which Blastaar emerges. Blastaar and the X-Men tussle, and Blastaar generally gets the better of them. For the final confrontation, Iceman creates a number of ice men that Jean telekinetically controls. However, Blastaar beats them off and all seems lost when suddenly Blastaar is zapped by 'wild energy' from the same machine that released him travelling along the melted remains of one of the ice men, killing him.

Appearing in "Welcome to the Club, Beast!"

Featured Characters:

• The X-Men

• Cyclops
• Iceman
• Angel

• Beast ("Hank" McCoy) - (Joins Team)
• Professor X

Supporting Characters:

• Norton McCoy
• Edna McCoy

Villains:

• El Conquistador
• Chico, Conquistador's Lieutenant
• Conquistador's henchmen

Locations:

• El Conquistador's headquarters
• Illinois

• Dunfee
  
  

Synopsis for "Welcome to the Club, Beast!"

Beast fights the Conquistador, but is over-matched until the X-Men (Cyclops, Angel, Iceman) arrive. Henchmen join in the fight and are quickly overpowered, but the Conquistador gets his machine going. Unexpectedly, rather than powering his suit it courses through him, a feat which Professor X reveals was his doing. After being rescued, Beast joins the team.

Notes

• Iceman can awaken unconscious people with a 'whiff of frozen oxygen'.
• In Beast's origin story, Professor X claims he has telekinetic powers.
• This issue is reprinted in many other comics and books, see references for more info.^[1]
  

Trivia

• Blastaar appears to be killed at the end of the first story, but it is later revealed that his "lifeless" body is restored in an upstate lab.

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