"There was a world of mutants, men and women who were more than normal men and women, persons who had certain human talents and certain human understandings which the normal men and women of the world had never known, or having known, could not utilize in their entirety, unable to use intelligently all the mighty powers which lay dormant in their brains.

The people finally know.

They've been told about the mutants.

And they hated the mutants.

Of course, they hated them.

They hated them because the existence of the mutants makes them second-class humans, because they are Neanderthalers suddenly invaded by a bow and arrow people."

Sounds like the X-Men, right? Nope, the above quotes are from a novel by Clifford Simak entitled Ring Around the Sun that was published in the 1950s.

Don't know if Stan Lee or Jack Kirby ever read the novel, but it sure makes you scratch your head and go, "HUH?".


Return to
The Comics Rack
The Comics Rack
Return to
The Nostalgia League
The Nostalgia League