{"id":340,"date":"2005-05-31T21:17:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-31T21:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2005\/05\/31\/x-men-the-early-years-2-no-one-can-stop-the-vanisher\/"},"modified":"2005-05-31T21:17:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-31T21:17:00","slug":"x-men-the-early-years-2-no-one-can-stop-the-vanisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/340","title":{"rendered":"X-men – The Early Years #2 [1994]"},"content":{"rendered":"

This issue reprints X-MEN #2 (1963), more early adventures of the strangest super-team of all when they learn “No One Can Stop the Vanisher”. This issue seems to spend a lot of time setting up the powers of each character, with an opening scene of them making their way to the mansion to answer a call from Professor X, where he tells them about a new threat, a super-thief named the Vanisher with teleportation powers. He then takes the team to the Danger Room to work on their powers.<\/p>\n

Eventually the X-Men face the Vanisher in Washington DC (this is back when they had a good working relationship with the government), but despite all their powers are unable to prevent him from making off with some military secrets.<\/p>\n

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Prof X steps in for the next confrontation, and is able to use his mental powers to make the Vanisher forget everything, including his powers, while the X-Men make short work of his recruited criminal henchmen. Still mostly setting up the series, but I really liked a lot of the scenes showing the powers, as well as some of the characterization worked into the dialogue.<\/p>\n

Paul Reinman inks Kirby on the 22-page story and the cover (reprinted as an interior pin-up). Not a huge fan of Reinman’s inks in general, but there are several nice pages. Very nice Mike Parobeck cover up front.<\/p>\n

The Bullpen page for this issue contains a tribute to Jack Kirby, who passed away a few months earlier, with a Ben Grimm illustration by Joe Sinnott and words by Sinnott, John Buscema, Marie Severin, Curt Swan, Sal Buscema, Gene Colan, Don Heck and Tom DeFalco.<\/p>\n

Published 1994<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This issue reprints X-MEN #2 (1963), more early adventures of the strangest super-team of all when they learn “No One Can Stop the Vanisher”. This issue seems to spend a lot of time setting up the powers of each character, with an opening scene of them making their way to the mansion to answer a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genre","category-superhero"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}