Fantastic Four #28: Guys, Maybe You Should Question Xavier Sometimes

Chronology Note: This one should have been placed quite a bit earlier. It clearly isn't in the right spot here, as Angel isn't injured, It released between X-Men #5 and #6 in April of 1964. It definitely goes after Strange Tales #120, as it mentions Human Torch meeting Iceman, so it probably should have been right after Strange Tales #120. Anyway, the person who made the chronological order I'm following put it here, so I guess this is where it will go.

In this issue of Fantastic Four, they team up with the X-Men... well eventually. The FF villains Thinker and Puppet Master work together to try to defeat the FF by using the X-Men. Thinker has "deduced" what the X-Men's secret leader must look like (Yeaaaah, I don't care how smart you are that doesn't work), so that Puppet Master can make a puppet to manipulate Xavier. Xavier commands the X-Men to attack the FF and refuses to elaborate, and the X-Men just... go do that. Idk, man, I'd need more explanation than "cause I said so" but I guess I'm just a young'n with no respect for authority. X-Men win, kidnap Sue (of course they kidnap Sue) and lure the FF to another location. They then win the fight there due to Thinkers traps, the true villains reveal themselves, Puppet Master uses Xavier's powers to try to incapacitate the X-Men, Beast resists, breaks the puppet, and the FF and X-Men team up to fight a big robot that Thinker had stolen from Mister Fantastic while the supervillain pair escape. They win when Xavier psybolts the robot. Which of course makes sense, cause back then Xavier's powers could do whatever they needed (even though he directly had problems with robots in previous comics). Apologies all around and everyone is friends. Reed speculates that the mysterious leader of the X-Men must be super powerful.

X-tra Notes: I actually liked this one more than the recent X-Comics I've read. It feels less like a throwaway and because it is an FF comic, I don't mind that the villains aren't your standard X-Villains. Overall the plotting is pretty decent, though it is silly that all the X-Men are just cool with attacking an established superteam just cause Xavier tells them to.