Okay, rampant comic history revisionism aside, this is pretty cool …<\/p>\n
<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mixing up the X-Men with the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) seems odd at first blush, but it grounds it in the team’s actual origin period (first published in 9\/63), and has all sorts of cool implications to it. (And, so you don’t have to look it up, the Lockheed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sr-71\">SR-71<\/a> went into service in 1964, after being developed from the Lockheed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lockheed_A-12\">A-12<\/a>, built between ’62 and ’64 … and all still part of the Most Awesomest Aircraft Family Ever.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, rampant comic history revisionism aside, this is pretty cool … Mixing up the X-Men with the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) seems odd at first blush, but it grounds it in the team’s actual origin period (first published in 9\/63), and has all sorts of cool implications to it. 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