#fun fact i learned to do wheelies on a grassy field at work

[comical-wheelchairs]

Uncanny X-Men #2 (1963) - 3/10

This wheelchair is the one that made me start doing historical research! It's a bad chair.

First trouble - the push rims on this are absolute ass. They're so close to the axle that there is no way to manually push this chair effectively - never mind on grass where he is right now!

Also the lack of caster wheels! Given how far his legs go out he'd need those suckers. I think they're seen later on but even then they're super small.

The single anti-tipper on the back is interesting! You can see it on modern dance wheelchairs. But theirs are slightly off the ground to allow for extra mobility and also, critically, are used on dance floors (notorious for their butter-like consistency for chair pushers). Pretty much anywhere else it's somewhere between inconvenience and liability. Just get the man normal anti-tippers!

I try to avoid criticizing things that are more likely just drawing errors, but I do want to point out that the wheel overlaps with his armrest, meaning he has to reach his arm out even further than his arm rest to reach those little push rims. Even more shoulder strain!

The backing is also super high, but given how chairs were in the 60's that less of an issue than if this were like. A chair for Barbara Gordon in the year of our lord 2024.

Lastly, the weight of this chair is still gonna be more than commercial chairs of the time (~40 lbs/~18 kg), and those already suck weight wise. So this chair is annoying to push with the weight of it.

Points given because it's reminiscent of older wheelchairs (like this one in 1865). It also pulls from the professor's canon traits of being. Well. A professor. It's a scholarly chair.