The New Mutants #9 [Direct]
(November 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
1983-07-05
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
Editing
Louise Simonson (credited as Louise Jones) (editor); Eliot R. Brown (credited as Eliot Brown) (assistant editor); Jim Shooter (credited) (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #29, with newsstand on-sale date of 1983-07-26.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

New Mutants / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Bob McLeod (signed as Bob McLeod)
Inks
Bob McLeod (signed as Bob McLeod)
Colors
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
New Mutants [Cannonball; Sunspot; Danielle Moonstar; Wolfsbane]
Reprints

Arena (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script
Chris Claremont (credited)
Pencils
Sal Buscema (credited)
Inks
Tom Mandrake (credited)
Colors
Glynis Oliver (credited as Glynis Wein)
Letters
Tom Orzechowski (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Behold, barbarians -- the glory that is Nova Roma!
Genre
superhero
Characters
New Mutants [Cannonball; Danielle Moonstar; Sunspot; Wolfsbane]; Selene (villain, introduction); Senator Marcus Domitius Gallio (villain, introduction); Castro; Amara Aquilla [Magma]; Senator Lucius Antonius Aquilla (introduction); Professor X (image by Dani's power); Melantha; Falco; Rogier
Synopsis
The New Mutants and Amara are taken to Nova Roma, a hidden city near the headwaters of the Amazon, where they are caught in a power struggle involving Amara's father. The boys are forced to fight in the arena. Wolfsbane is hailed as a god.
Reprints

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

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

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Mutant Mail-Box / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Chris Claremont; ?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from David Schifferdecker, John Brittan, Charles Fields, Kevin J. Dooley, Jim Scribner, and Warren Folse; house ad for The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    New Mutants
  2. 1. Arena
    New Mutants
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Bullpen Bulletins; Hype Box; Mighty Marvel Checklist
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Mutant Mail-Box
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Ken Austin
  • Chris Boyko
  • Steve Coates
  • Peter Croome
  • Darrel McCann
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Per Sandell
  • Richard Thomson
  • Jim Van Dore