X-Men: Magneto Testament
Today, the whole world knows him as Magneto, the most radical champion of mutant rights that mankind has ever seen. But in 1935, he was just another schoolboy - who happened to be Jewish in Nazi Germany. The definitive origin story of one of Marvel's greatest icons begins with a silver chain and...
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Today, the whole world knows him as Magneto, the most radical champion of mutant rights that mankind has ever seen. But in 1935, he was just another schoolboy - who happened to be Jewish in Nazi Germany. The definitive origin story of one of Marvel's greatest icons begins with a silver chain and a crush on a girl - and quickly turns into a harrowing struggle for survival against the inexorable machinery of Hitler's Final Solution From X-Men: Phoenix-Endsong writer Greg Pak and award-winning artist Carmine Di Giandomenico. Collects X-Men: Magneto Testament #1-5.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780785126409 (0785126406)
Publish date: October 14th 2009
Publisher: Marvel
Pages no: 152
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
History,
Historical Fiction,
World War II,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Comic Book,
Holocaust,
Superheroes,
Marvel,
X Men
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First of all, there's a story in the back of issue five about a woman who had been coerced to paint for Mengele, and who never got her works back from the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Poland. Which I will never visit or support in anyway. The fact that they kept the paintings that s...
The best thing about this series is that it is not about a superhero/villain or mutant, but about a very human boy forced to become a man during the Holocaust. We've always known about Magneto's past, but we've never seen it. Not like this. I kept wondering if and when his powers would manifest, as ...
I really liked this. Longer review later.
Summary: This comic compendium details Max Eisenhardt's childhood and adolescence as he tries to escape the Nazi regime, only to end up in a concentration camp where he will witness horror upon horror before escaping to one day become Magneto, the X-Men's greatest foe.Verdict: Great as a history les...
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