Released June 1982

Marvel Team-Up #118

Synopsis

MEETING OF THE MINDS After fighting Professor Power's Roman soldiers upstate, Wolverine invites Spider-Man to a training session in X-mansion. Spider-Man finds the session to hard and mentally ask Professor X for stopping the session: he would have preferred a donut and a cup of coffee. So soon Spider-Man shares the breakfast table with Colossus, Wolverine, Kitty Pryde and Professor X, himself. After breakfast Spider-Man accompanies Professor X in his trip to Professor Power's mansion where Charles was invited for a meeting. They do not know still that Professor Power is the man who attacked them in the previous issue of the series. While Professor X talks with Professor Power about their later political ideas, Spider-Man senses something troubling in the mansion and enters secretly, but he is attacked by the same Roman soldiers he fought in the previous issue. Professor Power reveals that his real intention meeting Professor Xavier is to ask him for trying to heal the mind of his son, which was seriously injured in the Vietnam war. Professor X finds the young man's mind is beyond healing, and also that Power's mind is hidden. When he tells Power that he is not able to heal his son, Professor Power captures Professor X inside a psycho-plastic cage. And then Power explains how he has been able to hide his mind to Professor X's scanner: he controls Mentallo's mental powers. But he needs also to feed Mentallo's mind and he needs Professor X's mind to do it. Professor Power then drains Professor x's powers into Mentallo's mind and plans to activate a machine to propagate a mind war against the Soviet Union. But Spider-Man enters and fights Fixer (an agent of Power) while Mentallo and Professor X fight a mind battle. In the end, Professor X wins, but some remaining connection among his mind, Power's draining machine and the young boy's mind makes this later be injured again. Professor X frees himself after defeating Mentallo and explains Professor Power that his machinations may have destroyed his son's mind forever.