The Untold Truth Of Marvel's Cannonball

Since his introduction in 1982, Cannonball has been at the center of some of the X-Men's wildest, strangest, and most compelling stories, and despite having one of the most straightforward powers in comics, his history is as complicated as they come.

In the early '80s, the X-Men were in the dead center of a long and extremely profitable reign as the biggest thing in comics. Legendary stories like the "Dark Phoenix" saga and the time-bending "Days of Future Past" had cemented the team as having a scope that was truly epic, while the ongoing superhero soap opera kept readers hooked with a web of relationships and heartache that ran through the stories. These years unquestionably brought some of the most important comics in Marvel's long history, but along the way, something about the X-Men had been lost.

As originally created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1963, the X-Men were based around a school where teenage mutants could learn to hone their powers between their missions as a superhero team. By 1975, Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum's introduction of the "All-New, All-Different" X-Men, had changed. Sure, they had a single teenager hanging around in the form of superhero trainee Kitty Pryde, but the rest of the team were adults who had very adult problems, like dealing with the mistakes they'd made in the past, or being seduced by Dracula.

Marvel had been built on the backs of coming-of-age teen superhero stories thanks to characters like Spider-Man, and with the merry mutants of the X-Men becoming the hottest thing in the industry, that probably seemed like a good thing to revisit. The only problem was that Uncanny X-Men itself was too popular to take a step backwards. If they were going to do a story with teenage X-Men, they needed some new mutants...which is exactly what Claremont and artist Bob McLeod did in the appropriately titled Marvel graphic novel The New Mutants. Keep watching to learn more about The Untold Truth Of Marvel's Cannonball!

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