2 December 2020
correspondent JP asks: Hey, is your name pronounced “Jean Gray”?
Are you an X-Man and just not telling us?
That is the correct pronunciation, and while Stan and Jack tagged their issue “Jean” in 1963, my creators tagged me with “Gene” in 1956. Is it a happy coincidence? Not as much as I’d like. There ARE red pigments in my hair, but my telekinesis remains undeveloped, and my entrance into a room does NOT excite adolescent boys (nor adolescent middle-aged men who ride in wheelchairs).
featured graphic, 220820:
Superboy’s Super Girlfriends, by Fred Hembeck
characters claimed by DC Comics and WarnerCom