MAGNETO WAS SAVED FROM SHARKS BY A FISHING CAPTAIN — AND FELL FOR HER: LEE FORRESTER, CYCLOPS' EX, MELTED THE MASTER OF MAGNETISM!
Uncanny X-Men #188 (1984) and New Mutants #23–24: after Asteroid M falls, trawler captain Lee Forrester rescues a shark-bitten Magneto, nurses him back to health, and their romance sets him on the gentler road toward his trial and the headmaster's chair.
READ THE FULL FACT →MAGNETO'S FAMOUS NAME IS A FORGED ALIAS — HE WAS BORN MAX EISENHARDT, AND MARVEL KEPT IT SECRET FOR 45 YEARS!
X-Men: Magneto Testament #1 (2008): Greg Pak's researched account finally reveals Magneto's birth name — Max Eisenhardt, born to a German Jewish family in the late 1920s; Erik Lehnsherr was a post-war alias.
READ THE FULL FACT →MAGNETO'S FIRST CHILD WASN'T A MUTANT AT ALL — AND KRAKOA COULD NEVER BRING HER BACK!
Classic X-Men #12 (1987), “A Fire in the Night!”: Anya Eisenhardt dies in the Vinnitsa inn fire, Magda flees, and decades later Krakoa's Waiting Room cannot resurrect her because she was human.
READ THE FULL FACT →BEFORE THEY WERE ENEMIES, MAGNETO AND XAVIER WERE CO-WORKERS WHO FOUGHT HYDRA TOGETHER — AND MAGNETO KEPT THE NAZI GOLD!
Uncanny X-Men #161 (1982): Xavier meets Magnus working as an orderly at a Haifa hospital for Holocaust survivors; they revive Gabrielle Haller, fight Baron Strucker's HYDRA together, and Magnus keeps the hidden Nazi gold to fund his coming war.
READ THE FULL FACT →MAGNETO USED TO BE A TELEPATH — HIS BRAIN WAS "SECOND ONLY TO PROFESSOR X"!
X-Men #4 and #6 (1964); astral projection against Xavier and in search of Namor; Stan Lee's narration ranks his brain power second only to Professor X; revived in X-Men: The Hidden Years (1999).
READ THE FULL FACT →MAGNETO DIDN'T FIND HIS NEXT ARMY — HE MANUFACTURED IT IN THE SAVAGE LAND!
X-Men #62 (1969): Magneto's mutator machine transforms Savage Land tribesmen into Amphibius, Barbarus, Brainchild, Gaza, Lupo, and Piper. X-Men #63 (1969): Lorelei debuts, Marvel Girl destroys the machine, and the Mutates devolve.
READ THE FULL FACT →THE VILLAIN WHO BECAME HEADMASTER — MAGNETO TOOK OVER XAVIER'S SCHOOL!
Uncanny X-Men #200 (1985): tried before the World Court, then handed Xavier's school and the New Mutants. New Mutants #35: "His last wish was that I take his place."
READ THE FULL FACT →MAGNETO'S SECRET CLONE JOINED THE X-MEN — THEN DIED FIXING WHAT MAGNETO BROKE!
Uncanny X-Men #327 (1995): Joseph debuts as an amnesiac Magneto double. X-Men #86 (1999): exposed as Astra's clone; sacrifices himself repairing Earth's magnetosphere. Magneto still got Genosha.
READ THE FULL FACT →IN ONLY HIS SECOND APPEARANCE, MAGNETO CONQUERED AN ENTIRE COUNTRY!
X-Men #4 (1964): the Brotherhood's debut — a stolen freighter, Mastermind's phantom army, and a bloodless coup in Santo Marco. The X-Men took it back the same week.
READ THE FULL FACT →IT TOOK MARVEL 44 YEARS TO SETTLE WHETHER MAGNETO WAS POLARIS'S FATHER!
X-Men #50 (1968) claimed it; X-Men #58 (1969) debunked it as a robot; Uncanny #431 (2003) DNA-tested it; X-Factor #243 (2012) closed the case.
READ THE FULL FACT →MAGNETO WAS ONCE TURNED INTO A LITERAL CRYING BABY — BY HIS OWN CREATION!
Defenders #16 (1974): Alpha the Ultimate Mutant judges his creator an egotistical child.
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