{"id":4763,"date":"2025-02-03T08:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T16:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=4763"},"modified":"2024-12-02T20:59:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T04:59:19","slug":"848-another-marvel-mutant-pre-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/848-another-marvel-mutant-pre-x\/","title":{"rendered":"848 &#8211; Another Marvel Mutant, Pre-X"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/196204-mutant-tad-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"692\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/196204-mutant-tad-1.png\" alt=\"Tad Carter, another Marvel mutant in Amazing Adult Fantasy #14, April 1962\" class=\"wp-image-4764\" style=\"width:580px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/196204-mutant-tad-1.png 692w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/196204-mutant-tad-1-300x211.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tad Carter, another Marvel mutant in Amazing Adult Fantasy #14, April 1962<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Amazing Adult Fantasy #14 (April 1962) includes the short story &#8220;The Man In The Sky!&#8221;. In it, <a href=\"https:\/\/marvel.fandom.com\/wiki\/Tad_Carter_(Earth-616)\">Tad Carter<\/a> is born to an atomic scientist and later develops mutant powers of telepathy and telekinesis. As a young socially awkward college student, he approaches apparent acquaintances and uses his powers on them, trying to convince them he can teach them how to do it (??). Even though Tad clearly wants to help humanity, his behavior naturally leads to feelings of resentment, creepiness, and fear.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/196204-mutant-tad-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"496\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/196204-mutant-tad-2.png\" alt=\"Tad doesn't make friends in Amazing Adult Fantasy #14, April 1962\" class=\"wp-image-4765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/196204-mutant-tad-2.png 500w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/196204-mutant-tad-2-300x298.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/196204-mutant-tad-2-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tad doesn&#8217;t make friends in Amazing Adult Fantasy #14, April 1962<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>But before they can beat the snot out of him for being different, Tad is mysteriously lifted up into the sky and taken away. He receives the thoughts from more powerful mutants who are holed up waiting for mankind to learn to accept mutants.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/196204-mutant-tad-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/196204-mutant-tad-3.png\" alt=\"Tad is contacted by powerful mutants in Amazing Adult Fantasy #14, April 1962\" class=\"wp-image-4766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/196204-mutant-tad-3.png 500w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/196204-mutant-tad-3-300x294.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tad is contacted by powerful mutants in Amazing Adult Fantasy #14, April 1962<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Maybe he was pulled away by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/705-marvel-mutants\/\">Vincent Farnsworth<\/a> and his acquaintances? Well, it&#8217;s definitely not the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/488-mutant-prejudice\/\">first mutants shouldn&#8217;t be trusted<\/a> story, nor is it the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/621-uncanny-future-men\/\">mutants live among us<\/a> story, but it does pull almost all the pieces together, all that&#8217;s left are some flashy costumes, megalomaniac mutants, and the letter X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing Adult Fantasy #14 (April 1962) includes the short story &#8220;The Man In The Sky!&#8221;. In it, Tad Carter is born to an atomic scientist and later develops mutant powers of telepathy and telekinesis. As a young socially awkward college student, he approaches apparent acquaintances and uses his powers on them, trying to convince them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[754,90,584,493,329,592],"class_list":["post-4763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-754","tag-marvel","tag-mutants","tag-prejudice","tag-super-powers","tag-x-men"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4763"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4770,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions\/4770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}