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Institute of higher living marvel comics

The Institute for Higher Living, or the Institute, is a laboratory associated with the School and Itexicon, creating mutant experiments and hybrids.

History[]

In The Angel Experiment, Max was led there by a vision of architectural drawings, blueprints, and subway maps. The Flock broke in, found new files on their parents, and freed numerous other experiments. This was where they discovered Total.

Location[]

The Institute is located in New York, with its labs beneath a business office located at 433 East 31st Street. The building on 433 East Street was about forty-five floors tall, and had a greenish, old-fashioned facade. There were revolving doors. Inside, the lobby was all polished wood, brass, and big tropical plants. The floor was smooth granite tiles.

The Flock accessed it by entering the sewers from 33rd Street, not far away. The sewer entrance opened into a room with a carpeted floor. The lab was very similar to the School in California. It was filled with computer banks, lab equipment, and dry-erase boards covered with diagrams. Behind a glass wall covered by a curtain were more lab stations, computers, and dozens of cages and dog crates where mutant children were kept.

Trivia[]

  • The "second Flock" is never heard from after The Angel Experiment, the book in which the Flock infiltrated the Institute.
  • In ANGEL, Max mentions that Maya was "liberated from her cage in New York." This would indicate that at some point Maya was held at the Institute for Higher Living, but the timing is unclear.
  • In the files at the end of the first book, Fang's blog describes scouting Washington D.C. with Nudge and finding a similar lab called The Institute of Higher Aeronautics. This is where the flying Erasers originated.
  • In the files at the end of School's Out - Forever, a letter was addressed from "T. Gomy" at the Institute for Higher Living, located on the 24th floor of 433 E. 31st Street.
  • This address (433 East 31st Street, New York, NY 10016) exists in real life and is located in the Manhattan neighborhood of Kips Bay. E 31st Street is located in the middle of a commercial strip mall called Kips Bay Plaza, including locations such as a movie theater and a Staples store. There is also a 433 E 31st Street in Brooklyn (a street which consists mostly of apartment buildings).
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