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Magneto
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fictional character in Marvel Comics
Key facts
- Publisher
- Marvel Comics
- First appearance
- The X-Men #1, (September 1963)
- Created by
- Stan Lee (writer), Jack Kirby (writer/artist)
- Alter ego
- Max Eisenhardt
- Species
- Human mutant
- Place of origin
- Germany
- Team affiliations
- Brotherhood of Mutants , X-Men , New Mutants , Hellfire Club , Acolytes , Astonishing Avengers , Quiet Council of Krakoa , Great Ring of Arakko , Brotherhood of Arakko
- Notable aliases
- Magnus , Erik Lehnsherr , White King (later Grey King ) of the Hellfire Club, Michael Xavier , Erik the Red , Henryk Gurzsky , White Pilgrim
- Abilities
- Magnetism manipulation Astral projection Psychic shield via helmet Genius intelligence
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.marvel.com/characters/magneto-ultimate
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- Commons category
- Magneto (comics)
- birth name
- Max Eisenhardt
- catalog code
- Max_Eisenhardt_(Earth-616)
- date of birth
- 1920-00-00
- name in native language
- Magneto
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Magneto (/mæɡˈniːtoʊ/) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the X-Men. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in The X-Men #1 (cover-dated September 1963) as an adversary of the X-Men.
Magneto is a powerful mutant, one of a fictional subspecies of humanity born with superhuman abilities, who has the ability to generate and control magnetic fields. Magneto regards mutants as evolutionarily superior to humans and rejects the possibility of peaceful human-mutant coexistence; he initially aimed to conquer the world to enable mutants, whom he refers to as Homo superior, to replace humans as the dominant species, and occasionally advocated for human genocide.