DEFENDERS (1972) #142

At Fontane College, the Beast is faced with the responsibility of being an advocate for mutant rights! The student Adrian Castorp is playing the piano in a room when Helen Williams says to him that he has to go to a student meeting, but he says no. The meeting is about how to stop the mitigate the public’s concern about the « growing mutant menace » around the country–the students think the mutants are being treated like abused minorities and want to help them. One of the leaders points out that Senator Robert Kelly, the proponent of the Mutant Registration Act, will be there soon, as will mutant Hank McCoy. Some days later Beast, Iceman and Cloud arrive at the campus and meet up with Adrian.…