Alpha Flight
#51
[Direct]
(October 1987)
Marvel,
1983 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.75 USD; 0.95 CAD; 0.40 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics
- Brand
-
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
- Printer
- Printed in the U.S.A.
- Editing
- Joanne Spaldo (assistant editor); Carl Potts (credited) (editor); Jim Shooter (credited) (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Alpha Flight / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Hilary Barta (signed as
BARTA) - Inks
- Kevin Nowlan (signed as NOLAN)
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Alpha Flight: Box [Madison Jeffries]; Sasquatch [Walter Langkowski] (Wanda Langkowski); Vindicator [Heather Hudson]
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
in ![Cover Thumbnail for Alpha Flight (Marvel, 1983 series) #51 [Direct]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/18/w200/18714.jpg?-4452075615623981158)
![Cover Thumbnail for Alpha Flight (1983 series) #51 [Newsstand]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1204/w100/1204868.jpg?694076103929152442)
Friends in High Places!
Alpha Flight / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Bill Mantlo (credited)
- Pencils
- Jim Lee (credited)
- Inks
- Whilce Portacio (credited)
- Colors
- Bob Sharen (credited)
- Letters
- Janice Chiang (credited)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Alpha Flight: Box [Madison Jeffries]; Manikin [Whitman Knapp]; Purple Girl [Kara Killgrave]; Sasquatch [Walter Langkowski] (Wanda Langkowski); Vindicator [Heather Hudson]
Aurora [Jeanne-Marie Beaubier] (cameo flashback); The Black Knight [Dane Whitman] (cameo flashback); Black Raazer (cameo flashback); Roger Bochs (cameo flashback); Captain America [Steve Rogers] (cameo flashback); Gary Cody; Deadly Ernest [Ernest St. Ives] (cameo flashback); Diablo [Esteban Corazón de Ablo] (cameo flashback); Diamond Lil [Lillian Crawley] (cameo flashback); Flashback [Gardner Monroe] (cameo flashback); Gilded Lily [Lillian von Loont] (cameo flashback); Guardian [James MacDonald Hudson] (cameo flashback); Hercules (cameo flashback); Hulk [Bruce Banner] (cameo flashback); Lady Deathstrike [Ana Cortés] (cameo flashback); Loki (cameo flashback); Marrina (cameo flashback); Master of the World [Eshu] (cameo flashback); Namor the Sub-Mariner [Namor] (cameo flashback); Nemesis [Isabel St. Ives] (cameo flashback); Northstar [Jean-Paul Beaubier] (cameo flashback); Omega [Lionel Jeffries] (cameo flashback); Pink Pearl [Pearl Gross] (cameo flashback); Puck [Eugene Judd] (cameo flashback); Scramble [Lionel Jeffries] (cameo flashback); Shaman [Michael Twoyoungmen] (cameo flashback); Smart Alec [Alexander Thorne] (cameo flashback); Snowbird [Narya] (cameo flashback); Talisman [Elizabeth Twoyoungmen] (cameo flashback); Tundra (cameo flashback); Wild Child [Kyle Gibney] (cameo flashback); Wolverine [Logan] (cameo flashback); Sentinel (cameo flashback) - Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- The Canadian government puts the new Alpha Flight through their paces and Gary Cody gets to know the team better.
- Reprints
-
in Strange (Semic S.A., 1989 series) #232 (avril 1989) [-1 page]
-
Indexer Notes
Jim Lee's first work at Marvel. The last panel notes that the series will only be available in comic stores beginning with the next issue.
[no title indexed]
Alpha Waves / letters page / 1 page
- Characters
- Vindicator [Heather Hudson]
Indexer Notes
Letters from: Delmo Walters Jr., Lori Anderson, K. Coples, Gary Strassberg, Curt Craddock, Michael Hanson and Christopher Corallo.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Alpha Flight -
1.
Friends in High Places!
Alpha Flight -
2.
[no title indexed]
Alpha Waves -
3.
[no title indexed]
Bullpen Bulletins
This issue was modified by, among others
- Henry Andrews
- CTGarry
- Tom de Jong
- Katy Hayhurst
- Kelly Langston-Smith
- Darrel McCann
- Derek Reinhard
- Tony R. Rose
- Gregg Whitmore
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