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From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: Re: Ketchup Comments #1
Message-ID: <1245@shark.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 9-Feb-85 03:43:12 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  9 03:43:12 1985
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Reply-To: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
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In article <5012@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> ...  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

Ummmmmm.  Lest we forget, folks, Xavier's body is younger now than
any of his pupils' .... Remember, he was cloned and mind-transplanted
at the end of the Sleazoid Wars?

They force-grew his recipient body to a comfortable level of maturity
(like, about 22) and then did the transplant.  Still, he is literally
less than a year old.

Continuity, anyone?

-Hutch