Who's Who? is Comic Book Beginner's Info's very simple column where you can attach faces to the name (and/or names to the faces) with brief introductions. Think of it as Comic Book Flash Cards (no not that Flash!).

Please note that, in general, these are not complete lists because A. This page would take forever to load and B. You will more than likely learn the rest of the characters as you read through the books! These are just the main ones you are going to frequently encounter. :-)

With the X-Men To cover all of the key characters in one entry would take not only forever but would probably crash your browser. So, I have decided to cover this in separate parts.

Check out the previous parts:
Part 1: The Original X-Men.

In this edition, we are simply going to introduce the characters in Giant Size X-Men #1, the comic where the X-Men were reinvented into more of the team that the general public is familiar with. Instead of a vanilla team that they once were, X-Men were going international.

I am going to have to say that putting the summary of most of these particular X-Men characters is a little harder to do than the Original X-Men as the characters backstories, quirks, and overall dynamics is a a little more deep.

Be on the lookout for the next edition, where we are going to start with some of the spin-off teams!

So let us begin!

Logan aka James Howlette aka Wolverine

Wow? Where exactly do you begin with this guy when this is supposed to be just a summary paragraph? Well, let us start off with the basics, his powers are his ultra healing powers or "healing factor," heightened sense of smell, agility, reflexes, and strength... plus he has skeleton laced with an unbreakable metal called adamantium, which his skeletal structure to begin with has retractable claws.

From Canada, Wolverine is perhaps the most popular X-Man due to his rather tortured and uncertain past and tough guy attitude who still has a big heart. He doesn't like to follow authority. Due to experiments on him, his memory had been wiped for quite some time. Really, this summary just doesn't do Wolverine justice. I guess I will cover this more in an eventual "all Wolverine edition" of Who's Who in X-Men?

To cover all of the key characters in one entry would take not only forever but would probably crash your browser. So, I have decided to cover this in separate parts. We are first starting off with the Original "Pre-Giant Sized X-Men" team. This era is from Uncanny X-Men #1 to #93).

The one thing you gotta know is that the original X-Men were a lot different than the team they are now. The team was more of the clean cut heroes that everyone was familiar with in the golden and very early silver age. In fact, the book was not a success at all, and was nearly canceled.

So, we are covering the main characters in that era, including the original team and the first version of The Brotherhood of Mutants.

The Original X-Men

Professor X aka Charles Francis Xavier

The paraplegic founder and leader of the X-Men, and also the Headmaster of the X-Mansion (which has gone by several different names over the years). He has very advanced telepathic powers. His hope for the world is for humans and mutants to co-exist. Also has more skeletons in the closet than you can shake a stick at.

By Jeff Hughes

When I think back in my days in school as my friends and I hid our comics in our desks or lockers so the teachers would not confiscate them or we would get a lecture of how comics would rot our brains

"These books have zero educational value!"

But I can tell you that comics actually enhanced my learning in such subjects as: English and Grammar, Teachers always thought that their were a lot of slang words and a lot of misspelling, however comics were and still are proof read and checked for misspellings, grammar and punctuation. Also while there is some slang words, this could be a good topic to bring up since comics can reflect the language of the time.

Comic Books peeked my interest in reading, and they also helped me in the subject of English,

Who's Who? is Comic Book Beginner's Info's very simple column where you can attach faces to the name (and/or names to the faces) with brief introductions. Think of it as Comic Book Flash Cards (no not that Flash!).

Please note that these are not complete lists because A. This page would take forever to load and B. You will more than likely learn the rest of the characters as you read through the books! These are just the main ones you are going to frequently encounter. :-)

With The Dark Knight out, I am sure we have several new potential readers of the Batman comic. Its a great read, guys, and I highly recommend starting off with Batman: Year One by Frank Miller.

Anyway, some of you might need introductions to the main characters you will run into. So here you go...

The Good Guys

Batman

Bruce Wayne, our hero. His parents were killed by a mugger. Now he is out to strike fear in the harts of criminals by being scary, using his gadgets, and using martial arts training.

Who's Who? is Comic Book Beginner's Info very simple article where you can attach faces to the name (and/or names to the faces) with brief introductions. Think of it as Comic Book Flash Cards (no not that Flash!).

Please note that these are not complete lists because A. This page would take forever to load and B. You will more than likely learn the rest of the characters as you read through the books! These are just the main ones you are going to frequently encounter. :-)

THE HEROES

Superman:

Our Hero... The Man of Steel.

Who's Who? is Comic Book Beginner's Info very simple article where you can attach faces to the name (and/or names to the faces). Think of it as Flash Cards.

Please note that these are not complete lists because A. This page would take forever to load and B. You will more than likely learn the rest of the characters as you read through the books! These are just the main ones you are going to frequently encounter. :-)

SpiderMan: