Alpha Flight
#4
[Direct]
(November 1983)
Marvel,
1983 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.60 USD; 0.75 CAD; 0.25 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1983-07-26
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
- Editing
- Denny O'Neil (editor); Linda Grant (assistant editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #29, with newsstand on-sale date of 1983-08-16.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
[no title indexed]
Alpha Flight / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- John Byrne (signed as
BYRNE) - Inks
- John Byrne (signed as BYRNE)
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Marrina; Master of the World (hand only)
- Reprints
-
in Alpha Flight (Planeta DeAgostini, 1985 series) #3 -
in Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne (Marvel, 2001 series) #4 ([March] 2005) - in Fantastic Four by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2011 series) #2 (2013)
- in Marvel Héroes (Panini España, 2012 series) #56 - Alpha Flight de John Byrne (Septiembre 2014), #60 - Los 4 Fantásticos de John Byrne 2 (Mayo 2015)
- in Alpha Flight by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2017 series) (2017)
-
Indexer Notes
Signature dated 1983.
![Cover Thumbnail for Alpha Flight (Marvel, 1983 series) #4 [Direct]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/18/w200/18667.jpg?-6557800569060950435)
![Cover Thumbnail for Alpha Flight (1983 series) #4 [Newsstand]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/732/w100/732537.jpg?-9168241579658683326)
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Resolutions!
Alpha Flight / comic story / 22 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Alpha Flight [Guardian [James MacDonald Hudson]; Snowbird; Aurora; Northstar; Marrina (partial origin); Sasquatch [Dr. Walter Langkowski]]; Invisible Girl; Namor the Sub-Mariner; Master of the World; Gladys Smallwood (flashback); Dan Smallwood
- Synopsis
- The Master of the World explains Marrina's alien origins to her. Alpha Flight rescues her and destroys the Master's base. Marrina meets Namor and decides to live with the Atlanteans for a while.
- Reprints
-
in Strange (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #183 (5 mars 1985) [Moins 1 page/Minus 1 page] -
in Superaventuras Marvel (Editora Abril, 1982 series) #47 (8 de Maio de 1986) [Desta história foram usadas as páginas 2 a 19, 21 e 22.] -
in Marvel Spesial (Semic, 1987 series) #2/1987 ([juni] 1987) -
in Der unglaubliche Hulk (Condor, 1980 series) #25 - in Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne (Marvel, 2001 series) #4 ([March] 2005)
- in Alpha Flight Classic (Marvel, 2007 series) #1 ([April] 2007)
- in Fantastic Four by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2011 series) #2 (2013)
- in Marvel Héroes (Panini España, 2012 series) #56 - Alpha Flight de John Byrne (Septiembre 2014), #60 - Los 4 Fantásticos de John Byrne 2 (Mayo 2015)
- in Alpha Flight by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2017 series) (2017)
-
Indexer Notes
First meeting of Namor and Marrina (the two later wed).
[no title indexed]
Alpha Waves / letters page / 0.5 page
Indexer Notes
Rather than place several letters of comment from readers, all readers who sent in a letter of comment on Alpha Flight #1 get named. Placed between pages 18 and 19 of the main sequence.
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