Alpha Flight #2 [Direct]
(September 1983)

Marvel, 1983 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.60 USD; 0.75 CAD; 0.25 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1983-05-24
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
Editing
Denny O'Neil (editor); Linda Grant (assistant editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #26, with newsstand on-sale date of 1983-06-14.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Alpha Flight / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
John Byrne (signed as Byrne)
Inks
Terry Austin (signed as austin)
Colors
?
Letters
Rick Parker ?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Alpha Flight [Guardian [James MacDonald Hudson]; Sasquatch [Dr. Walter Langkowski]; Aurora; Northstar; Shaman; Marrina; Puck]
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Cover Thumbnail for Alpha Flight (Marvel, 1983 series) #2 [Direct] Cover Thumbnail for Alpha Flight (1983 series) #2 [Newsstand] Cover Thumbnail for Alpha Flight (1983 series) #2 [Canadian]
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Shadows of the Past (Table of Contents: 1)

Alpha Flight / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script
John Byrne
Pencils
John Byrne
Inks
John Byrne
Colors
Andy Yanchus
Letters
Tom Orzechowski
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Twenty miles south and west of Fort Albany, Ontario...
Genre
superhero
Characters
Alpha Flight [Guardian [James MacDonald Hudson; also as Vindicator]; Shaman; Snowbird; Aurora; Northstar; Puck; Marrina (partial origin); Sasquatch [Dr. Walter Langkowski]]; Chief Inspector Hamilton; Thompson; Gary Cody; Angus (flashback); Tom Smallwood (flashback); Glad Smallwood (flashback); Dan Smallwood (flashback); Master of the World (cameo)
Synopsis
Vindicator decides to rename himself Guardian. During a training session, Marrina goes feral and eviscerates Puck.
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Indexer Notes

Vindicator changes his name to ‘Guardian.’ It’s the third alias of the character within five years, since his first appearance in X-Men #109, Feb. 1978, under the pseudonym ‘Weapon Alpha.' James Hudson was back in X-Men #120, April 1979, under the new alias of ‘Vindicator.’ At the end of Alpha Flight #1, in Alpha Waves John Byrne’s editorial, the subject of the evolution of the character’s aliases is evoked and suggests the third and last change to come. To note that on page 5 - panel 2 of this episode, Shaman draws from words used in Byrne’s editorial published in Alpha Flight #1 to express his feeling about how inappropriate ‘Vindicator’ is from now on.

In The Beginning... (Table of Contents: 2)

Alpha Flight / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
John Byrne
Pencils
John Byrne
Inks
John Byrne
Colors
Andy Yanchus
Letters
Tom Orzechowski
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Jerry, no! You really can't be doing this to me!
Genre
superhero
Characters
James MacDonald Hudson (origin); Heather McNeil; Jerry Jaxon
Synopsis
Distraught with his technology being sold to the US Army, James decides to use the suit and take back the helmet, which was developed before joining Am-Can.
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Indexer Notes

Beginning a series of back-up stories on the origins of Alpha Flight.

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Alpha Flight
  2. 1. Shadows of the Past
    Alpha Flight
  3. 2. In The Beginning...
    Alpha Flight
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