Charles Xavier

Professor X
Professor Charles Xavier Art by Aaron Lopresti
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	The X-Men #1 (September 1963)
Created by	Stan Lee (Writer) Jack Kirby (Artist)
In-story information
Alter ego	Charles Francis Xavier
Species	Human mutant
Team affiliations	X-Men Illuminati
Notable aliases	Onslaught, Consort-Royal, Founder, Doctor X, Warlord, Entity, Prisoner M-13
Abilities	Vast telepathic abilities, extending to mind reading, memory manipulation, mind control, astral projection, genius level-intellect, and offensive psychic attacks.

Professor Charles Francis Xavier (also known as Professor X) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics and is the founder and leader of the X-Men. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in The X-Men #1 (September 1963).

Xavier is a member of a subspecies of humans known as mutants who are born with superhuman abilities. The founder of the X-Men, he himself is an exceptionally powerful telepath who can read and control minds of others. While running a private school in Westchester County, New York to both shelter and train mutants from around the globe, Xavier also fights to serve the greater good by promoting peaceful coexistence and equality between humans and mutants in a world where often zealous anti-mutant bigotry is widespread.

Throughout much of the character's history in comics, Xavier is a paraplegic variously using either a wheelchair or a form of personal hovercraft. One of the world's most powerful telepathic mutant minds, Xavier is also a scientific genius, being an expert in genetics, biophysics, psychology, anthropology, and psychiatry. He's put his combined talents to use by serving as a leading authority on genetics, mutations, and psionic powers. Furthermore, he has shown noteworthy talents in devising equipment to greatly enhance psionic powers. Xavier is perhaps best known in this regard for the creation of a device called Cerebro, a technology that serves to detect and track those individuals possessing the mutant gene, at the same time greatly expanding the gifts of those with existing psionic abilities.