Height: 5'10"

Weight: 150lbs.

Place of Birth: Long Island, New York

First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #1, September 1963

Mutant Powers:Ice man has the ability to freeze any liveing or non-living organizime. He can transform himself into some sort of ice and can also make Ice shield around him which is good for far combat.

History: Bobby Drake discovered his mutant power to create ice while he was in his early teens, but kept it a secret from everyone except his parents. One night, however, Drake and his girlfriend Judy Harmon were attacked by a bully named Rocky Beasely and his friends. To save Harmon, Drake temporarily encased Beasely in ice. When they heard what had happened, the local townspeople thought Drake was the real menace. They formed a lynch mob who broke into his home and overpowered him. The local sheriff took Drake into custody for the boy's own protection.

Meanwhile, Professor Charles Xavier learned what had happened and sent Cyclops, his only X-Man at that time, to contact Drake. Cyclops broke into Drake's cell, but when Drake refused to go with him, the two began fighting until they were caught by the lynch mob. Cyclops and Drake were about to be hanged when they broke free. Professor Xavier used his mental powers to stop the mob, and afterwards to erase their memories of Drake's powers. The grateful Bobby Drake then accepted Xavier's invitation to join the X-Men and took the code name Iceman. He was the youngest of the original five X-Men. Years later, after Xavier had recruited a new group of students, Iceman and other veteran X-Men quit the team. Soon afterwards he joined the Champions of Los Angeles, a short-lived super hero team founded by his fellow former X-Man the Angel. After the Champions disbanded, Drake went to college to study accounting. Eventually, however, he rejoined his fellow former X-Men Angel and the Beast as members of another super hero team, the Defenders. The Defenders, though, came to an end when several of their members apparently perished in a climactic battle. Iceman and the other original members of the X-Men then founded a new team based in New York City. This was the original version of X-Factor.

When Professor Xavier returned to Earth after an extended absence in outer space, Iceman and his fellow X-Factor members rejoined the X-Men. Recently, Emma Frost, the White Queen, took mental possession of Iceman's body and was able to activate the full extent of his powers, turning his body into all ice. Since then, under Frost's prodding, Iceman has learned to transform his body into its "ice" state on his own. More recently, Bobby Drake infiltrated the presidential campaign organization of Graydon Creed, the head of the anti-mutant organization Friends of Humanity. After Drake's father spoke out against Creed's bigotry, he was nearly killed by Creed's thugs.

Current Status: Iceman is currently on leave from the X-Men, and is at home spending time woth his father, who is recuperating from an attack by mutant-hater Graydon Creed.