Issue(s): Amazing Adult Fantasy #14
Published Date: Jul 62
Title: "The Man In The Sky!"
Credits:
Stan Lee - Writer
Steve Dikto - Penciler

Review/plot: Upen reaching puberty, Tad Carter finds out that he has telekinesis and telepathy. However, despite the fact that he wants to use his gifts to help humanity, they shun and attack him, and he is spirited away by a mysterious powerful mutant who rescues mutants in trouble and keeps them hidden until the day that mankind is ready to welcome them.

It's a quirky little horror/fantasy story like the ones we read throughout the monster age.

Quality Rating: C+

Historical Significance Rating: 3 - First mutants.

Chronological Placement Considerations: This was originally meant to be a one-off story that had nothing to do with the super-hero stories they were kicking off, but everything here is the starting point for the mutant theme. I'd love for someone to pick up on Tad Carter and the mutant that contacted him, and the secret society of mutants that was being built. Update: It turns out John Byrne did that in his X-Men: The Hidden Years series, but from what i've read, it isn't very good.

References: N/A

Cross-over: N/A

Continuity Implant? N

Reprinted In: X-Men Rarities