Uncanny X-Men #7
"The Return of the Blob"
Written by Stan Lee
Drawn by Jack Kirby

Okay. Now it's becoming almost obvious that Lee's afraid to deviate from the Brotherhood. Is no one else threatening the world? He mangages to bring back the Blob, who apparently Magneto wants to recruit to join his team, "what a valuable addition he'll be to my band of homo superiors!" Obviously, Magneto didn't read issue three or he'd see that the Blob is a bit of a tool who'd do little for his team other than run up their food budget and probably wreck havoc on their septic system. I do respect the Blob for quite quickly realizing that Magneto didn't care about him and giving up on caring about mutantkind.

I enjoy that this issue marks the debut of Cerebro; when Xavier is showing it off to Cyclops he actually describes it as an E.S.P. machine and there is an editor's note explaining that E.S.P. stands for "extra sensory perception." I'm sure it wasn't out of the place then but cut forward three and a half decades, you get writers talking about comprehending space in five dimensions and the reader is just expected to keep up. It just kind of caught me off guard.

Well, at the least the team finally got to graduate. I mean, it's hard to give out diplomas (with nothing written on them apparently) when Namor's attacking you.

C