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No. 9543
Marvel has repeatedly explained this as a sliding timeline. The problem is, characters like Magneto and Xavier (among a few others with no possibility of extending their lives) are historically attached to a specific date, or rough dates in the past. Magneto, obviously, is stuck to WWII, while through association, so is Xavier. Characters like Spider-Man and Iron Man can mostly ignore specific dates in their origins and history (obviously anything that brings up famous events can be dismissed as non-canon), but Magneto is one of those characters that can't be explained away by a sliding timeline. Some that get away with the specific date issue include Captain America who was an adult in WWII, but he got frozen and reanimated "10 years ago" or whatever they want to say in that issue. Wolverine, due to his powers, is effectively immortal. Namor is truly immortal. Another explanation that has been tossed out is that each storyline exists in its own continuity so that WWII in modern comics happened only, say, 20 years ago.
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