- Script
- Chris Claremont (credited)
- Pencils
- Sal Buscema (credited)
- Inks
- Bob McLeod (credited)
- Colors
- Glynis Oliver (credited as Glynis Wein)
- Letters
- Tom Orzechowski (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Big Sur, 120 miles south of San Francisco...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Professor X; New Mutants [Cannonball; Psyche; Sunspot; Wolfsbane]; Sebastian Shaw (villain); Emmanuel Da Costa (villain, Sunspot's father); Hellfire Club soldiers (villain); Axe (villain, introduction); X-Men [Storm; Nightcrawler; Colossus] (guest-star); Lilandra; Nina Da Costa (introduction, Sunspot's mother); Simon; Goulart
- Synopsis
- Prof. X, suspecting foul play in Karma's disappearance, sends the New Mutants to Rio de Janiero with Sunspot's archaeologist mother, who is captured by the Hellfire Club. The New Mutants rescue her, unaware that Sunspot's father is plotting against her.
- Reprints
This is the last issue in which Dani uses the code-name "Psyche." In issue #22 she begins using "Mirage." Axe next appears in issue #29.
- Script
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
Letters from Lionel English, G. H. Tebutt, Roy Veldboom, and Suzanne Stone.