Alpha Flight #16 [Newsstand]
(November 1984)

Marvel, 1983 Series
< Previous Issue |
| Next Issue >
Volume
1
Price
0.60 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1984-08-14
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
Barcode
0714860296711
Editing
Linda Grant (assistant editor); Denny O'Neil (editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #52, with shipping date of 1984-07-24.
This issue is a variant of Alpha Flight (Marvel, 1983 series) #16 [Direct]. There exist further variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Alpha Flight / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
John Byrne
Inks
John Byrne
Colors
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Namor, the Sub-Mariner; Puck; Master of the World
Reprints
Cover Thumbnail for Alpha Flight (Marvel, 1983 series) #16 [Newsstand] Cover Thumbnail for Alpha Flight (1983 series) #16 [Direct] Cover Thumbnail for Alpha Flight (1983 series) #16 [Canadian]
Edit cover
Cover gallery

...And Forsaking All Others... (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script
John Byrne
Pencils
John Byrne; Bob Wiacek (finisher)
Inks
Bob Wiacek
Colors
Andy Yanchus
Letters
Rick Parker
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Beneath the waters of Lake Ontario...
Genre
superhero
Characters
Alpha Flight [Puck [Eugene Milton Judd]; Marrina [Marrina Smallwood] (origin); Heather McNeil Hudson]; Wolverine [Logan]; Namor, the Sub-Mariner [Namor McKenzie]; Madison Jeffries (first full appearance); Box [Roger Bochs]; Master of the World; Guardian [James MacDonald Hudson] (cameo flashback); Aurora (cameo flashback); Northstar (cameo flashback); Sasquatch [Dr. Walter Langkowski] (cameo flashback); Snowbird (cameo flashback); Gladys Smallwood (flashback); Tom Smallwood (flashback)
Synopsis
Roger Bochs meets up with Madison Jeffries in hopes of recreating the Box armor. Wolverine visits Heather in the hospital. The Master of the World has captured Puck and Namor and explains Marrina's origins as he tries to have her mate with one of her alien people. The heroes escape and take the Master down but, disgusted by her own monstrous heritage, Marrina leaves.
Reprints

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

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

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from readers Alexandra Kline, Gary West, David Kuntzler, Dwight Halberstam and D. J. Jenkins.

Guardian Is Dead. Who Will Lead Alpha Flight? (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Alpha Flight / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Alpha Flight
  2. 1. ...And Forsaking All Others...
    Alpha Flight
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Alpha Waves
  4. 3. Guardian Is Dead. Who Will Lead Alpha Flight?
    Alpha Flight
This issue was modified by
  • Steve Coates
  • Peter Croome
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Vik-Thor Rose
  • Ramon Schenk
If you believe any of this data to be incorrect, please let us know.
Cover thumbnails are used for identification purposes only. All rights to cover images reserved by the respective copyright holders.
Creative Commons License All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.
The GCD Privacy Policy. The GCD Web Site code is licensed under the GNU General Public License.