I particularly recall a cover in which one of the Kubert Kidz swipes, I mean, pays homage to a Frazetta painting of a barbarian catching lighting with his sword on a mountaintop. The cover starred Cyclops, as beefy as the Frazetta guy and striking a similarly defiant pose.

That was such a betrayal of the character and the book, that my stomach turned.

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Yes -- after Juggernaut is BLINDED by the Human Torch's flames!

I mean, even though the Beast has some super-strength, he wasn´t the X-Men´s Thing (like Colossus, later). He was mostly used as an acrobat.

Edited by Flavio Sapha on 16 August 2010 at 10:12am

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Based on. . . ?

I mean, even though the Beast has some super-strength, he wasn´t the X-Men´s Thing (like Colossus, later). He was mostly used as an acrobat.
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Not only was Hank agile and strong, but as his character developed, we learned that the bouncing Beast was also the "smartest" of the group!

I like the references early in this post about the "non-hairy" Beast, knowing what was meant by that.  However, if you look at the art in the early X-Men issues, the Beast actually was "hairy" but in the human sense.  I always thought that image was unique in comparison to super heroes of the day (e.g. Superman in the 50's and 60's had no chest hair).