So Scott isn’t Jeans First love? This is my first time learning of Tedd haha
I'm not surprised, he was around for a handful of issues in the 60s and then disappeared.
Jean thought Scott didn't love her, Scott thought Jean didn't love him, blah, blah, blah:
Jean left the X-Men to go to school at Metro College. This is the sixties, so it's said that her parents wanted her to go to college (since she'd graduated from Xavier's already) and that therefore she had to leave Xavier's, despite being, you know, an adult. In Silver Age X-Men, parents come up a lot as excuses for things.
She meets a cute English major named Ted who is in her psychology class. He's an athlete, he's cute, and he loves complimenting her (he calls her "the cutest coed on campus" more than once).
Sparks fly, I guess? Anyway, here's her in the next issue (X-Men #26), and Warren being the only person in the Jean/Scott relationship who knows what's going on:
Nevertheless, she does seem to really like Ted, and he makes her feel more comfortable among the world outside the X-Men.
(Despite what Jean says, she leaves college to help the X-Men fight bad guys every single issue during this era. So she hasn't really "left" the X-Men and she's still very much doing the super-heroine thing.)
Relationships in sixties comics were not always on a binary of together/not together, so Jean and Ted were dating and obviously interested in each other, but they weren't official or whatever. You know, like you might see a guy for dates but you're not his girlfriend yet.
So here's Jean, at the height of her relationship with Ted, desperately hoping Scott will ask her out on a date:
Anyway, Ted sort of susses out Jean's secret identity as Marvel Girl after his brother becomes a radioactive Iron-Man-esque supervillain and the X-Men show up to defeat him. Later, Ted asks them to save his brother (not currently a supervillain) from the Mole Man and they do. And then Ted disappears from X-Men comics entirely forever!
Ted exists mostly to fuel the Jean/Scott angst (since I guess they felt that they'd exhausted the Warren angle) and to represent the appeal of a world outside the X-Men. Jean can be a normal college kid with him and they can go on dates and study together for psych tests. He highlights Jean's love for Scott but also her desire for a normal relationship - exactly the kind of thing that Scott thinks he can't give her.
