Gallery: Taking Comics Seriously

Believe it or not kids, Gandalf - that's Sir Ian to you - was once more famous for playing Macbeth, Richard III and King Lear. But when he won a Tony award as the villainous Salieri in the Broadway production of Amadeus, he was probably just practising for his proper bad-guy role as Magneto, the metal-bending nemesis of the X-Men. They'll be telling you he's gay next.