New Brevoort Formspring

kurtbusiek:

buckrogersinthe21stcentury:

kurtbusiek:

brevoortformspring:

Nope, sorry.

How would Warren and Scott manage to be 7 years or so older than someone they went to prep school with?

The original 5 X-Men were all high-school age when the series started, except for Hank, who had been in his first year of college. So he was 18-19, and the others were 15-17. Bobby, the youngest, turned 18 in #32. Jean went to college shortly before that, which was shortly after Peter Parker went to college.

So Bobby’s a little younger than Peter, Hank is a little older, and the others are within a year of his age. Johnny started college about a semester after Peter did, so he’s the same age.

Don’t get me started on the ages of Hank and Jan…

I have spent way more time than anyone probably should wondering about these things and the one that always gets me is professor X. If he is just out of college, (early-twenties) during the Korean War, he would be in his early thirties in X-Men #1, but seems to be portrayed as a good deal older than that.

He was younger than that; he was still in short pants at the time of the Alamagordo nuclear test. He must have lied about his age to be in the Korean War.

People think he’s older because he’s bald, but he lost his hair while still in his teens.