{"product_id":"9781250103222","title":"Eighteen Below: A Fabian Risk Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003ePurchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Baxter Building, Batcave, Fortress of Solitude, Power Chamber, X-Mansion, Asteroid M, Justice League Watchtower, Helicarrier, the Pit, Stark Tower, Titans Tower, Hall of Justice, Justice League Satellite, List of Fictional Secret Bases in Comics and Animation, Honeycomb, Graymalkin Industries, Cloudbase, Skull Cave, Government Warehouse, Tracy Island, Hydro-Base, Mimura's Lair, Maison Alpha, Monolith Base, Seattle Core, Henneth Annûn. Excerpt: Asteroid M Asteroid M is the name of several fictional settings, each an asteroid converted by the mutant Magneto into his home\/orbiting base, in the Marvel Comics Universe . It was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby , in X-Men #5 (May 1964). History Asteroid M has been destroyed and reconstructed by the Master of Magnetism many times since it was first introduced. Each iteration has had several internal levels, including an observation deck, hangar bays and medical facilities. The various facilities have had technology that keep the asteroid concealed from standard detection technology. They have all been positioned in a low geosynchronous orbit . Each asteroid was relatively small yet large enough that it could not be shot down, or destroyed externally, without the risk of massive devastation to Earth . First version Magneto completes construction on Asteroid M just before recruiting his children, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch into his group, the Brotherhood of Mutants , as seen in X-Men vol. 2, -1 (July, 1997). This first version is destroyed in a battle with the original team of X-Men in X-Men #5 (May, 1964). Second version Asteroid M is reconstructed just after Magneto imprisons the X-Men in his Antarctic citadel, reducing them to the level of six-month-old babies, around the time of X-Men #113 (September, 1978). The space statio...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47046952845552,"sku":"9781250103222","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781250103222_p0.jpg?v=1763702942","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781250103222","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}