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Oh, did someone visit the character's Wikipedia page?
The Magneto: Testament graphic novel (which is available in some libraries -- and I understand it's being used as study material in a few schools as well) is a fairly intense reading experience. Not as strong as Maus, where you know the events are biographical -- but it's still the story of a Jewish German teenager living through the Holocaust. Not exactly a casual flip-through. (It's also very light in the powers department: at the time, Max had no conscious awareness of what he was capable of -- and so it's the story of a normal teenager.) You might want to check your local library and see if you get reading-lucky. And if they don't have that, they're almost guaranteed to have Maus -- which is the superior read and well-worth your efforts to find. In fact, if at all possible, grab both. (Note that Maus is two volumes: don't miss one.)
On a side trope note, Max is one of the characters under the Frozen In Time entry, and another for whom it's a problem. Figure realistically that he was born around 1922 or so, and that date is fixed. It's increasingly harder to get him up to Marvel's current day -- and he never spent any time in an iceberg.
He can also be an ironic figure in that he's always on the verge of becoming what he hates: the persecuted minority who turns things around and puts others into camps....
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