The New Mutants #100 [Second Printing "Gold"]
(April 1991)

Marvel, 1983 Series
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Volume
1
Price
1.50 USD; 2.00 CAD; 0.60 GBP
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1991-02
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics
Brand
Marvel Comics
Editing
Bob Harras (editor); Suzanne Gaffney (assistant editor); Tom DeFalco (editor-in-chief)

The End of the Beginning (Table of Contents: 1)

New Mutants / comic story / 38 pages (report information)

Script
Rob Liefeld (credited) (plot); Fabian Nicieza (credited)
Pencils
Rob Liefeld (credited)
Inks
Rob Liefeld (credited)
Colors
Brad Vancata (credited)
Letters
Joe Rosen (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
The underground bunker headquarters of the New Mutants, December 8, 3:15 P.M.
Genre
superhero
Characters
Mutant Liberation Front: Skids Blevins [Sally Blevins] (villain); Rusty Collins (villain); Forearm [Michael McCain] (villain); Kamikaze (villain); Reaper [Pantu Hurageb] (villain); Strobe [Juliana Worthing] (villain); Stryfe (villain); Sumo (first appearance, villain); Tempo [Heather Tucker] (villain); Wildside [Richard Gill] (villain); Zero (villain)
New Mutants: Boom-Boom [Tabitha Smith]; Cable [Nathan Summers]; Cannonball [Sam Guthrie]; Domino [Vanessa Carlysle]; Feral (joins); Shatterstar (first full appearance, joins); Warpath [James Proudstar]
X-Men: Wolverine [Logan] (cameo flashback)
X-Men: Colossus [Piotr Rasputin] (cameo flashback); Rogue [Anna Marie] (cameo flashback); Storm [Ororo Munroe] (cameo flashback)
Brute (villain, death); Hump (villain); Masque (villain); Mojo (cameo flashback); Spiral (cameo flashback); Imperial Protectorate (villain, first appearance)
Synopsis
Shatterstar shows up in the Danger Room and the New Mutants have to help him defeat Mojo's Soldiers. Feral also arrives at the Mansion and Cable helps get Masque off of her back. Agreeing to try Cable's new proactive stance in the mutant struggle, the New Mutants leave X-Mansion behind and officially become X-Force.
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Indexer Notes

Part 3 of 3. Final issue. Domino, Shatterstar, and Feral join. The New Mutants (now called X-Force) appear next in New Mutants Annual #7, and then in X-Force #1; Pages 27 and 28 of the story are the infamous Liefeld swipe of a two page sequence from Frank Miller's Ronin from DC Comics.

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

Report Card / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Characters
Cable

Indexer Notes

Letters from: Bill Anderson, Jess Siegel, Terry Westrum, Vincent Bettes.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 1. The End of the Beginning
    New Mutants
  2. 2. [no title indexed]
    Report Card
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