The New Mutants #5 [Direct]
(July 1983)

Marvel, 1983 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.60 USD; 0.25 GBP; 0.75 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1983-03-01
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
Editing
Louise Simonson (credited as Louise Jones) (editor); Danny Fingeroth (credited) (assistant editor); Jim Shooter (credited) (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #22, with newsstand on-sale date of 1983-03-22.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

New Mutants / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Armando Gil (signed as Armando Gil)
Inks
Armando Gil (signed as Armando Gil)
Colors
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Psyche; Viper; Silver Samurai
Reprints
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Heroes (Table of Contents: 1)

New Mutants / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Chris Claremont (credited)
Pencils
Sal Buscema (credited) (layouts); Bob McLeod (pages 1-8, finisher); John Tartaglione (pages 9-22, finisher, uncredited)
Inks
Bob McLeod (credited) (pages 1-8); John Tartaglione ? (pages 9-22, uncredited)
Colors
Glynis Oliver (credited as Glynis Wein)
Letters
Tom Orzechowski (credited)
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Ahhrr!!
Genre
superhero
Characters
Professor X; New Mutants [Cannonball; Karma; Psyche; Sunspot; Wolfsbane]; Viper (villain); Silver Samurai [Keniuchio Harada] (villain); Team America [Cowboy (guest-star); Georgianna Hebb (guest-star); Honcho [McDonald] (guest-star); R.U. Reddy (guest-star); Wolf (guest-star); Wrench [Hebb] (guest-star)]; Dark Rider (guest-star); Stevie Hunter; Majestrix Lilandra; Colonel Michael Rossi
Synopsis
The New Mutants meet Team America at a fair, where they are attacked by Viper and the Silver Samurai. Viper captures Psyche and blackmails Team America into stealing a certain object. The New Mutants and Team America join up to go to the rescue.
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Indexer Notes

Inking credited to Bob McLeod but changes after eight pages. Style is the same as for issue #6.

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

Bullpen Bulletins; Hype Box; Items; Mighty Marvel Checklist / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

Script
Jim Shooter; ?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Items; The Hype Box; The Mighty Marvel Checklist.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Mutant Mail-Box / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from Dustan Leary, David Puckett, Charles B. Cockett, Jr., Beverly Ramsgate, Martyn Fogg, and Quah Kung-Khoon.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    New Mutants
  2. 1. Heroes
    New Mutants
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Bullpen Bulletins; Hype Box; Items; Mighty Marvel Checklist
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Mutant Mail-Box
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  • Ken Austin
  • Chris Boyko
  • Steve Coates
  • Peter Croome
  • Axel Kahlstorff
  • Darrel McCann
  • Stéphane PETIT
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Per Sandell
  • Richard Thomson
  • Steven Tice
  • Jim Van Dore
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