The New Mutants #3 [Direct]
(May 1983)

Marvel, 1983 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.60 USD; 0.25 GBP; 0.75 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1983-01-23
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
Editing
Louise Simonson (credited as Louise Jones) (editor); Jim Shooter (credited) (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #19.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

New Mutants / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Mike Gustovich
Inks
Mike Gustovich
Colors
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
New Mutants: Cannonball [Sam Guthrie]; Karma [Xi'an Coy Manh]; Psyche [Dani Moonstar]; Sunspot [Roberto Da Costa]; Wolfsbane [Rahne Sinclair]
Demon Bear
Universe
Marvel : mainstream
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Art credits from Bob McLeod via the GCD Error List.

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Nightmare (Table of Contents: 1)

New Mutants / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Chris Claremont
Pencils
Bob McLeod
Inks
Mike Gustovich
Colors
Glynis Oliver (credited as Glynis Wein)
Letters
Tom Orzechowski
First Line of Dialogue or Text
It's only a storm -- nothing to be afraid of.
Genre
superhero
Characters
New Mutants: Cannonball [Sam Guthrie]; Karma [Xi'an Coy Manh]; Psyche [Dani Moonstar]; Sunspot [Roberto Da Costa]; Wolfsbane [Rahne Sinclair]
Banshee [Sean Cassidy] (guest); Demon Bear (first appearance); Moira MacTaggert; Professor X [Charles Xavier]; Illyana Rasputina; Professor X's Brood embryo (villain)
Universe
Marvel : mainstream
Synopsis
Psyche wonders whether the monster that attacked her is the Demon Bear that killed her parents. Illyana remembers how she killed some of the X-Men. Psyche's monster strikes again, this time attacking all the New Mutants.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

The New Mutants appear next in Uncanny X-Men #167, where they meet the X-Men and Prof. X's Brood embryo is destroyed. Illyana's story is told in the Magik miniseries. The Demon Bear story is told in issues #18-20.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Bullpen Bulletins; Hype Box; Items; Mighty Marvel Checklist / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

Script
Jim Shooter; ?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Items; The Mighty Marvel Checklist; The Hype Box.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    New Mutants
  2. 1. Nightmare
    New Mutants
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Bullpen Bulletins; Hype Box; Items; Mighty Marvel Checklist
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