X-Men (1963) #11

Cover by Jack Kirby

Cover Date: May 1965

On-Sale Date: March 1965

Synopsis: The Brotherhood try to recruit an alien called the Stranger, and it doesn't go well for them. Mastermind is turned to stone, and Magneto and the Toad are taken into outer space. Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch decide to go home to Europe.

CHRONOLOGICAL NOTES:

Page 1

The X-Men are reacting to the professor's new radar-image beam, which is an addition to Cerebro that allows it to project an image of the being that it has detected.  I assume that the professor has been working on it since he returned to the team in X-Men (1963) #9, and finished it some time after #10.

Page 9, panels 1 to 3

The Brotherhood tries to recruit an alien called the Stranger, and this is the first indication that it's not going to go their way.  After a demonstration of his power of illusion, Mastermind is turned to stone by the Stranger.  He won't return until X-Men (1963) #37.  The organisation known as Factor Three cures him of being a statue behind the scenes (somewhere around issue #20 I'd guess), but he shouldn't be making any high-profile appearances between this issue and #37.

Page 15, panel 2

Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch finally decide that they've had enough of Magneto and his Brotherhood. They leave for their home in central Europe, but they won't stay there long: they join the Avengers in Avengers (1963) #16, which was published a mere week later.

Page 18

The Stranger takes Magneto and the Toad back to his homeworld as mutant specimens.  Magneto will briefly return to Earth in X-Men (1963) #17, and both of them will make their permanent returns in Avengers (1963) #47.  Needless to say, they shouldn't be making generic appearances in the interim.

The Stranger's account of his people here is vague, and doesn't really fit with his later origin stories. There are a bunch of conflicting stories about the Stranger, but luckily for me they take place in comics I don't have to consider for this project.  Despite making his first appearance in X-Men, the bulk of his appearances take place outside of the x-titles.

Page 20, panels 5 to 7

This issue ends on a cliff-hanger, with the approach of a powerful new menace. There's some leeway for time to pass between this issue and the next, but I'm pretty sure the intention is that they continue fairly closely.

COUNTING THE DAYS:

The entirety of this story takes place in a single day, an unspecified amount of time after X-Men (1963) #10.