I've been going through Uncanny X-Men from the beginning, and there's something about the cover of #11. It's very different from the 10 covers that came before it; no raucous blurbs filling up an action-packed scene, just a subtle "Introducing the Stranger" on a billboard in the background with the Stranger air-walking and advancing on Professor X while the X-Men look on, baffled; the grey buildings in the background and the confused crowd. It's like the cover promises something completely otherworldly, and in a certain sense the issue delivers on that score. The Brotherhood of Mutants is taken out after having been the book's main recurring villains-- we won't see them again until #43. Defeated by a cosmic entity so powerful, he whisks Magneto and the Toad away with a gesture for the sole purpose of having Earthen mutant specimens to study. Perhaps the book's first turning point.
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