Alpha Flight
#6
[Direct]
(January 1984)
Marvel,
1983 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.60 USD; 0.75 CAD; 0.25 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1983-09-27
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
- Editing
- Linda Grant (editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #32, with newsstand on-sale date of 1983-10-18.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
Snowblind
Alpha Flight / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- John Byrne (signed as Byrne)
- Inks
- John Byrne (signed as Byrne)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Snowbird
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Assistant Editor's Month. Signature dated 1983.
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Snowblind
Alpha Flight / comic story / 16 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Well, Corporal?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Alpha Flight [Guardian [James MacDonald Hudson]; Snowbird [Corporal Anne McKenzie]; Chief Inspector Hamilton; Doug Thompson; Ed Barrow; Thom; VILLAIN: Kolomaq (first appearance)
- Synopsis
- Snowbird battles the great beast Kolomaq in a snowstorm.
- Reprints
-
in Strange (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #185 (5 mai 1985) [Moins 1 page/Minus 1 page] -
in Superaventuras Marvel (Editora Abril, 1982 series) #52 (08/10/86) [Do original, falta da história, a página 14 ] -
in Marvel Spesial (Semic, 1987 series) #3/1987 (1987) -
in Der unglaubliche Hulk (Condor, 1980 series) #26 -
in Alpha Flight Classic (Marvel, 2007 series) #1 ([April] 2007) -
in Marvel Héroes (Panini España, 2012 series) #56 - Alpha Flight de John Byrne (Septiembre 2014) - in Alpha Flight by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2017 series) (2017)
-
Indexer Notes
As an Assistant Editor's Month Stunt, there are 6 pages with no art, only panels and word balloons (the sequence takes place in a snowstorm).
The Old Ways
Alpha Flight / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A few minutes walk from the townsite of Banff...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Shaman [Michael Twoyoungmen] (origin); Elizabeth Twoyoungmen (introduction, flashback); Katheryn Twoyoungmen (flashback, corpse); Dr. Max Bassara (flashback); Heather Hudson (flashback); Shaman's grandfather (spirit); Doctor Strange (cameo); The Ancient One (cameo)
- Reprints
- in Superaventuras Marvel (Editora Abril, 1982 series) #28 (Ourubro de 1984)
- in Strange (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #185 (5 mai 1985)
- in Grandes Heróis Marvel (Editora Abril, 1983 series) #21
- in Der unglaubliche Hulk (Condor, 1980 series) #26
- in Alpha Flight Classic (Marvel, 2007 series) #1 ([April] 2007)
- in Marvel Héroes (Panini España, 2012 series) #56 - Alpha Flight de John Byrne (Septiembre 2014)
- in Alpha Flight by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2017 series) (2017)
-
Message in a Bottle
illustration / 1 page
- Script
- Linda Grant
- Pencils
- Marie Severin (signed)
- Inks
- Marie Severin (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Linda Grant
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Claims to replace letter's page even though issues #1-5 haven't had any.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Snowblind
Alpha Flight -
1.
Snowblind
Alpha Flight -
2.
The Old Ways
Alpha Flight -
3.
Message in a Bottle
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steve Coates
- Peter Croome
- Kelly Langston-Smith
- Darrel McCann
- Mike Nielsen
- Derek Reinhard
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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