X-men magneto biography

Fictional character appearing in Marvel Comics publications and related media

Comics character

Magneto (; birth name: Max Eisenhardt; alias: Erik LehnsherrGerman pronunciation:[ˈeːʁɪkˈleːnshɛʁ] and Magnus) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the X-Men.

X-men magneto biography

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 fo