Alpha Flight #38 [Direct]
(September 1986)

Marvel, 1983 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.75 USD; 0.95 CAD; 0.40 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1986-05-13
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel 25th Anniversary
Editing
Carl Potts (editor); Rosemary McCormick-Lowy (assistant editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #94.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Alpha Flight / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
David Ross (signed as dr)
Inks
Randy Emberlin (signed)
Colors
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Alpha Flight: Northstar [Jean-Paul Beaubier]; Shaman [Michael Twoyoungmen]; Snowbird [Narya] (in Sasquatch's form); Vindicator [Heather Hudson]
Kariooq; Kolomaq; Pestilence [F. R. Crozier]; Tolomaq
Universe
Marvel : mainstream
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Pestilence! (Table of Contents: 1)

Alpha Flight / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Bill Mantlo
Pencils
David Ross
Inks
Gerry Talaoc
Colors
Bob Sharen
Letters
Jim Novak
Genre
superhero
Characters
Alpha Flight: Aurora [Jeanne-Marie Beaubier]; Box [Roger Bochs]; Northstar [Jean-Paul Beaubier]; Puck [Eugene Judd]; Shaman [Michael Twoyoungmen]; Snowbird [Narya]; Talisman [Elizabeth Twoyoungmen]; Vindicator [Heather Hudson]
Attuma; Byrrah; Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange] (flashback); Kariooq; Kolomaq; Pestilence [F. R. Crozier]; Ranaq; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Douglas Thompson; Tolomaq; Tundra
Universe
Marvel : mainstream
Synopsis
Namor attacks Atlantis to free Marrina but is repulsed by Attuma's forces. Alpha Flight battles Pestilence who has absorbed the essence of Snowbird's child to power his evil. Things get worse when Pestilence calls the Great Beasts to his aid. Shaman puts on the coronet of enchantment and becomes the new Talisman to defeat the beasts and Pestilence, but their main quarry escapes with the soul of Snowbird's baby still a part of him.
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Alpha Waves / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
? (letterhead)
Inks
? (letterhead)
Colors
? (letterhead)
Letters
typeset
Characters
Vindicator [Heather Hudson]

Indexer Notes

Letters from: Matt Sewell, Jim Cunningham, David LaGassa, Paul Ferrell Brown and E. Judd.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Alpha Flight
  2. 1. Pestilence!
    Alpha Flight
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Alpha Waves
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