Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Re: Ketchup Comments #1 Message-ID: <5012@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Feb-85 21:18:10 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.5012 Posted: Mon Feb 4 21:18:10 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Feb-85 21:18:10 EST References: <583@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP>, <5964@rochester.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 19 > ... Xavier is a little different. He has always appeared > older because of his bald head, but recent X-Men stories say he was > only in maybe his late twenties when he founded the X-Men. > I think the confrontation with the bad guy who crippled Prof. X's > legs has been set at 1960. Unfortunately, I'm not sure this can be reconciled with the Gabrielle Haller business. Her original trauma was very firmly tied to WW2. It is difficult to realistically put her birthdate later than perhaps 1935, and it should probably be a bit earlier. And she was definitely still a young woman when Xavier cured her. Furthermore, their contact was relatively brief, and resulted in a child who is now an adolescent. Unless one makes *some* kind of strange assumption somewhere, Charles Xavier must have been a young adult not too long after WW2, and the current year in the Marvel universe cannot be much later than 1970. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry