Typed up a record of the most memorable/significant quotes from the Silver Age--
September 1963, X-Men #7
P2 - X-Men Graduation
Xavier: Nonsense Scott! All I did was take the talent all of you already had, and channel it in the right direction! You youngsters did all the work!
Jean: But without you, we’d have remained misfits in a world that could never understand us-- with no purpose, no goals!
P3-4 Brotherood HQ
Wanda: You Lie! You have no real power-- merely the gift of creating illusions! But, I care not for power! Once I have paid my debt to Magneto, I hope to leave this dreadful band-- to be free at last… With you, even a palace would seem like a hovel to me!
Jason: Magneto! Magneto! Am I always to be plagued by that name?! He doesn’t feel about you as I do! He has no emotions-- no heart--!
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Magneto: Bah! Loyalty is for homo sapiens! I expect no loyalty! I only demand fear-- and blind obedience!!
P6-7 Xavier Departs
Xavier: I have decided that you, the X-Man known as Cyclops, shall be group leader until I return!
Slim: Me?? But, sir-- the Beast is a better scholar-- while Angel is more aggressive and--!
Xavier: But it is you who posses the rare quality of leadership! My decision stands!
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Hank: Of course! It was a logical selection!
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Slim: I shudder to think of what would happen if [the power beam which emanates from my eyes] ever accidentally gets out of control! I had hoped to visit various doctors-- to seek a cure! But, the Professor convinced me it is my duty to remain-- to use my power against all evil-- no matter how I dread the task!
Jean: Oh, schott-- we all understand! But you made the right decision! We’ve studied together so long, worked os hard-- we just can’t split up now!
Warren: The way she looks at him! How can he be so unmoved? Can’t he see how she feels about him??
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Slim: They’ve gone! And here I sit-- alone! Now for the fist time, I can realize how it must have been for the Professor all those long moths-- always apart-- always alone… Now to listen to the steady drone of Cyberno’s ‘voice’== unable to leave my post unless an alarm is sounded-- and yet, dreading the moment I hear that alarm, for it can only mean-- the mance of-- Magneto!!
Meanwhile , at a noisy carnival at the edge of town…
Magneto: This is the one place I can appear in public with impunity! All who see me think I am merely another costumed performer!
P8-10 Blob's Recruitment
Silently, one of the most powerful mutant minds on Earth beigins to prove The Blob’s brain…
Magneto: Strange!! There is a mental block there! I cannot penetrate his mind!
[Strange!! You attempt a mental probe lacking the gift of telepathy and whilst you wear your telepathy-blocking helm!!]
Magneto: Who am I?? I am== power!! But you may call me-- Magneto!! Mark that name well Homo sapien-- soon you, and all your inferior kind shall pay it homage!!
Jason: So! You call my great powers mere illusions, do you?? See how they throw an entire group of fighting men into sheer panic, my lovely!
Wanda: But you cannot thro those accursed images everywhere at once! Even now some roustabouts are approaching us from behind the wagon!
Humans: Grab those two!!
Jason: No! Don’t hurt us!
Wanda: Quiet, you shameless coward! My own hex power is enough to save us! All I need do is cause continual mishaps to befall our attackers!
P12 Counter Culture
Chick #1: Do you like the Zen poetry Bernard is reading, big boy?
Hank: Poetry? I assumed he was checking a housewife’s shopping list aloud!
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Hank: My most vexing problem is this pair of tight brogans I’m wearing! The agony is excruciating!
Chick #1: Take ‘em off, neighbor! In this place nobody’ll even notice!
Hank: Ah! What a blessed relief!!
Chick #1: Ulp! I spoke too soon! Are those real, or is it some kinda gag?
Hippie #1: Say! Dig that crazzzy paper-weight!
Hippie #2: Don’t move, stranger! I’ve got to make a sketch of those feet! They should be immortalized on canvas!
Hippie #3: Wait till Bernard sees them!! He’ll write a new poem immediately!
Chick #2: This could start a whole new culture-- we’ll call ourselves barefoot beats!
Hippies: Hail to the new leader! King of the Barefoot Beats!... Free coffee for everybody!
Hank: I appreciate these accolades, but I think you’re all totally bereft of sanity!
Hippies: Not only does he have the world’s greatest feet, but he talks, too!
P13 Blob Recruited
Blob: Yeah! Yeah! I don’t even need all of you! I can handle those overrated weaklings by myself!
Jason: Don’t be a fool! They’ve beaten all of us in the past! Me, I want all the help I can get!
P14 X-Men! Scramble!
Bobby: Whoops! Too fast! My shirt, shoes, and socks froze up, too, and cracked clean off!! Goash! And Zelda always like that ol’ shirt!
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Jean: Henry P. McCoy!! You’ve got your nerve running ahead of me like that! Didn’t you ever hear of ladies first??
Hank: But of course, Jean, my sweet! In the same place that I heard “Time and tide wait for no man!”
Jean: Well! It seems that even the scholarly Beast has to me taught some manners now and then!
Hank: Hmmm! To paraphrase an old cliché-- never underestimate the telekinetic power of a woman!
P16 Confrontation
Hank: Are you aware that you talk almost as much as I do, Blob? Although your vocabulary is either as varied or as erudite!
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Slim: Jean!! You shouldn’t have strained yourself against impossible odds like that! Leave him to me now!! Only my power beam can beat him!
Bobby: Boy! You’ve got one qualification for a group leader, Scotty! You’ve sure got confidence!
P21 Resolution
Magneto: At last! They’re all in one group! Now my torpedoes can finish them all off!
Jason: But-- the Blob! He’s there with them, too!
Magneto: That’s his hard luck! He’s served his purpose!
Wanda: No!!
Pietro: You can’t! You musn’t!
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Slim: It’s ironic! One of our most deadly enemies shield us from a fatal blast!
P22 Closure
Fred: I’m thru with mutants-- thru with fighting other people’s fights! I’ll never trust anyone again!
Slim: I seem to remember something the Professor once said-- long ago-- there are good mutants, and bad mutants! And there are also some who hate being mutants== some who turn away from the great responsibility their power imposes upon them!
Fred: I’ve not hate left in me! I’m just weary! I’m going back-- to the only place I belong-- to the carny!
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