Beauty and the Beast #4 [Canadian]

(June 1985)

Checkmate (Table of Contents: 1)

Beast; Dazzler / comic story / 23 pages (report information)

Script

Ann Nocenti (credited) (story)

Pencils

Don Perlin (credited)

Inks

Kim DeMulder (credited)

Colors

Petra Goldberg (credited as Petra Scotese); George Roussos (sourced)

Letters

Joe Rosen (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

In a dark, vacant arena beneath the back lots of Hollywood--

Genre

superhero

Characters

Gladiators: Dazzler [Alison Blaire] (featured); Alexander Flynn (antagonist) (leader of the Gladiators); Horns (antagonist); Hugo Longride (antagonist) (Gladiators founding member, body); Max Rocker (antagonist); Ivich Williamson (antagonist)
X-Men: Beast [Hank McCoy] (featured)
Doctor Doom [Victor Von Doom] (antagonist); Link (supporting); Poltergeist (supporting)

Universe

Marvel : mainstream

Synopsis

Dr. Doom arrives and finds Hugo Longride dead at the hands of Flynn. It turns out that Longride was a robot placed by Doom to keep tabs on Flynn who claims to be his son. Flynn tells his fellow mutants that he plans on leading them in the overthrow of Latveria. Realizing the plan is suicidal madness, Max frees the Beast and Dazzler and they lead a revolt against Flynn. Doom warns the fallen Flynn to stop telling people that Doom is his father. With the mutants in control of the arena, they decide to turn it into something more productive. Dazzler and Beast break off their relationship.

Reprints

• in Coleccíon Extra Superheroes (Planeta DeAgostini, 1983 series) #12 (Octubre 1985)
• in Limited Serie (Juniorpress, 1985 series) #4 (1987)
• in Un Récit Complet Marvel (Editions Lug, 1984 series) #15 - La Belle et la Bête ([août] 1987)
• in Essential Dazzler (Marvel, 2007 series) #2 [black and white]
• in X-Men: Beauty & The Beast (Marvel, 2012 series) (2012)
• in Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #7 ([May] 2013) [black and white]
• in Defenders Epic Collection (Marvel, 2016 series) #8 - The New Defenders (2018)

Indexer Notes

The mutant arena and its inhabitants appeared the month after this issue was published in The New Mutants (Marvel, 1983 series) #29 where they were once again under the control of Alexander Flynn, and Sunspot and Magma were captured to fight in the contests.