The Irony of Magneto's Mind Control! Avengers 111 & Marvel Feature 9 | Five Minutes of X #114

Welcome back to Five Minutes of X! I'm reading every mutant comic Marvel ever made, month by month. February 1973 brings us two books and a front-loaded dose of Magneto being the most unhinged version of himself. We've got mind-controlled X-Men, a dancing Scarlet Witch (gross), a plane that looks like a spaceship, and a Magneto plan that somehow involves both nuclear keys and chloroform. The Vision also pulls off the sneakiest move in Avengers history, and Piper gets his moment in the sun. Meanwhile in Marvel Feature #9, Hank Pym survives being hunted by his own wife at bug scale. That's it. That's the issue. Hank Pym's research continues. As does his high stakes Honey I Shrunk the Kids adventure. For character info, reading lists, and proof that I have too many nerdy projects going at once, head to http://joerdie.com. New episodes drop Wednesdays at noon and Fridays at 4 Eastern. Credits: The Avengers #111 (February 20th1973) | Steve Englehart (w), Don Heck (a) Marvel Feature #9 (February 20th1973) | Mike Friedrich (w), P. Craig Russell (a) Shanna, the She-Devil #4 (March 13th) | Ross Andru (a), Steve Gerber (w), Carole Seuling (w), http://joerdie.com