{"id":28192,"date":"2019-03-10T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T05:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=28192"},"modified":"2019-03-10T17:46:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T21:46:17","slug":"marvel-legends-mystique-addendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/03\/marvel-legends-mystique-addendum\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Legends Mystique addendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today's review of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/hmlx_xmyst.php\">the Walgreens-exclusive <i>Marvel Legends<\/i> Mystique action figure<\/a> spoke of how Dave Cockrum had designed the character before Chris Claremont decided to use her in the comics.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/myst1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/myst1-195x300.jpg\" title=\"click to embiggen\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\"This drawing was done for fun and hung in my office until my partner Chris Claremont wandered in one day, saw her, and started to drool. 'I want her!' he said. He named her Mystique, gave her powers and added her to the <i>Uncanny X-Men<\/i> rogues gallery.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So that's the true origin of Mystique. As a bonus, here's a Marvel house ad for <i>Ms. Marvel<\/i>, featuring her soon-to-be archenemy in the background:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/myst3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/myst2.jpg\" title=\"click to embiggen\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Minimate Mini-Review #72 - X-Force Wolverine &#038; Hydra Agent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/minimate-mini-review-72-x-force-wolverine-hydra-agent\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Minimate Mini-Review #72 - X-Force Wolverine &#038; Hydra Agent<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"\"Secret Wars: E is for Extinction\" #1 variant\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/06\/secret-wars-e-is-for-extinction-1-variant\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">\"Secret Wars: E is for Extinction\" #1 variant<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Minimate Mini-Review #366 - Captain Marvel exclusives\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/03\/minimate-mini-review-366-captain-marvel-exclusives\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Minimate Mini-Review #366 - Captain Marvel exclusives<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"\"Captain Marvel\" Movie Series: Captain Marvel Binary Form exclusive review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/captain-marvel-movie-series-captain-marvel-binary-form-exclusive-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">\"Captain Marvel\" Movie Series: Captain Marvel Binary Form exclusive review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"I'm just a Teenage Warhead, baby\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/im-just-a-teenage-warhead-baby\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">I'm just a Teenage Warhead, baby<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today's review of the Walgreens-exclusive Marvel Legends Mystique action figure spoke of how Dave Cockrum had designed the character before Chris Claremont decided to use her in the comics. \"This drawing was done for fun and hung in my office &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/03\/marvel-legends-mystique-addendum\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,160,25],"tags":[321,74],"class_list":["post-28192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-comics","category-marvel","tag-captain-marvel","tag-x-men"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28198,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28192\/revisions\/28198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}