Stan Lee's original title of the comic book series The
X-Men. However, the title was discarded by his superiors and replaced with the alternate name now famously synonymous with
mutants. Manager types at the
Marvel Comics Group thought "the mutants" would scare or warp young minds. I don't see how they thought "
X-Men" was going to be any better, but that's life. The original Mutants included
Cyclops,
Marvel Girl aka Jean Grey or
Phoenix, the wise and wooly
The Beast,
Angel and a very young
Ice Man.
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