lmaher@uokvax.UUCP (08/23/84)
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uokvax!lmaher Aug 23 02:36:00 1984
Re the discussion about U.S. Government records on the X-Men, and
how they were erased, I thought I'd post this quote from an
interview with Len Wein, who (as we all know :-) wrote Giant Size
X-Men #1 and plotted X-Men #94-95. In the interview he also
talks about how the series would have gone had he remained -
considerably different. For you reference freaks, this is on
page 51 of _The X-Men Companion Volume I_, and is copyright 1982
by Fantagraphics Books.
"But [Professor X] was also going to use his powers to erase
knowledge of [the X-Men] from the rest of the world, any record
of Colossus and Nightcrawler: the people in charge of those
records would wander into the room one day and put them in the
paper shredder and burn away the files and never notice they
weren't there anymore. I was going to have Professor X solve the
problems of this international group by eliminating evidence.
And then eventually someone was going to stumble over something
and go. There was going to be a big conflict. He'd erased the
evidence of their existence from the rest of the world, and other
people would discover that these characters had been elsewhere
first."
Carl
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