Alpha Flight
#14
[Newsstand]
(September 1984)
Marvel,
1983 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.60 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1984-06-12
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
- Barcode
- 0714860296709
- Editing
- Linda Grant (assistant editor); Denny O'Neil (editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #48, with shipping date of 1984-05-22.
This issue is a variant of Alpha Flight (Marvel, 1983 series) #14 [Direct]. There exist further variants:
This issue is a variant of Alpha Flight (Marvel, 1983 series) #14 [Direct]. There exist further variants:
What Lurks in Lake Ontario?
Alpha Flight / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- John Byrne (signed as John Byrne)
- Inks
- John Byrne (signed as John Byrne)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Puck; Heather McNeil Hudson
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Signature dated 1984.
![Cover Thumbnail for Alpha Flight (Marvel, 1983 series) #14 [Newsstand]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/18/w200/18677.jpg?-8594565036051957905)
![Cover Thumbnail for Alpha Flight (1983 series) #14 [Direct]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/747/w100/747788.jpg?5618884219056680127)
![Cover Thumbnail for Alpha Flight (1983 series) #14 [Canadian]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1100/w100/1100258.jpg?99942374078319802)
Biology Class
Alpha Flight / comic story / 22 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Snowbird is returning home.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Alpha Flight [Shaman; Snowbird; Aurora; Puck; Marrina; Heather McNeil Hudson]; Namor the Sub-Mariner; Elizabeth Twoyoungmen; Ramin; Inspector MacMurry; Plodex
- Synopsis
- The members of Alpha Flight break up and do their own thing with no leader to guide them. Heather tries to rescue a woman who has fallen into Lake Ontario but is attacked by a tentacle. Puck meets up with Marrina and and informs her that he thinks the attacker was one of her alien race.
- Reprints
-
in Alpha Flight Classic (Marvel, 2007 series) #2 -
in Der unglaubliche Hulk (Condor, 1980 series) #29 -
in Strange (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #194 (février 1986) -
in Superaventuras Marvel (Editora Abril, 1982 series) #60 (8 Junho 1987) -
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
This is the first time Elizabeth Twoyoungmen is seen as an adult; she becomes Talisman in #18.
The Plodex is the alien race whom Marrina belongs to. This race is never named in this issue nor in Alpha Flight #16, November 1984, when it reappears and in which Marrina refers to it as her 'mate'.
The first time the 'Plodex' name is revealed is in Marvel Team-Up Annual #7, October 1984.
Page 2 - Splash: Snowbird’s drawing is accompanied by an extract from a famous poem in Canada The Spell of The Yukon (Robert W. Service - Songs of a Sourdough, 1907).
[no title indexed]
Alpha Waves / letters page / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from readers Brooke Steenbraum, R. J. Malcolme, Dwight Campbell, Tom Standlman, Name withheld and Venus V. Zylowski.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
What Lurks in Lake Ontario?
Alpha Flight -
1.
Biology Class
Alpha Flight -
2.
[no title indexed]
Alpha Waves
This issue was modified by
- Steve Coates
- Peter Croome
- Mike Nielsen
- Derek Reinhard
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