Alpha Flight
#17
[Direct]
(December 1984)
Marvel,
1983 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.60 USD; 0.75 CAD; 0.30 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1984-08-14
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
- Editing
- Denny O'Neil (editor); Linda Grant (assistant editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #53, with newsstand on-sale date of 1984-09-04.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Alpha Flight / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- John Byrne (signed as
BYRNE) - Inks
- John Byrne (signed as BYRNE)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The X-Men and Alpha Flight -- How They Met and What Happened Later
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Weapon Alpha [James MacDonald Hudson]; X-Men [Wolverine [Logan]; Storm; Banshee; Colossus]
- Reprints
-
in Alpha Flight (Planeta DeAgostini, 1985 series) #13 -
in Alpha Flight Classic (Marvel, 2007 series) #2 -
in Marvel (Semic, 1988 series) #5/1995 -
in Superaventuras Marvel (Editora Abril, 1982 series) #36 (Maio de 1985) - in Marvel Héroes (Panini España, 2012 series) #56 - Alpha Flight de John Byrne (Septiembre 2014)
- in Alpha Flight by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2017 series) (2017)
-
Indexer Notes
Cover art is an homage to the cover of X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #109 (February 1978).
The cover bears the signature: 'Byrne 1984 (after Cockrum 1977)', as John Byrne copied Cockrum’s cover. Note that there was a time lag between the drawing of the original Cockrum's cover as the corner box indicates '1977', and the publication of the comic, in February 1978.
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Dreams Die Hard...
Alpha Flight / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- John Byrne; Chris Claremont (reprint pages)
- Pencils
- John Byrne
- Inks
- John Byrne; Terry Austin (reprint pages)
- Colors
- Andy Yanchus
- Letters
- Joe Rosen
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Well, how do I look?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Alpha Flight [Weapon Alpha [James MacDonald Hudson, also as Vindicator and Guardian] (flashback); Aurora; Dr. Walter Langkowski [Sasquatch]; Heather McNeil Hudson (also in flashback, joins)]; Moira MacTaggert (flashback); X-Men [Wolverine [Logan]; Storm; Colossus; Banshee (all but Wolverine in flashback only)]; Gary Cody (flashback); Major Chasen (flashback); Minister (flashback); Krakoa (cameo flashback); Magneto (cameo flashback); Sentinels (cameo flashback); Phoenix (cameo flashback)
- Synopsis
- After reflecting with Wolverine on Mac's origins and his first encounter with the X-Men, Heather decides to lead Alpha Flight. Aurora alters her powers and changes her look.
- Reprints
- from The X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #109 (February 1978) [8 pp.]
- in Alpha Flight Classic (Marvel, 2007 series) #2
- in Superaventuras Marvel (Editora Abril, 1982 series) #36 (Maio de 1985) [Do original, faltam da história, as páginas: 4 (vinhetas 1 a 4), 6 (vinheta 5) e 17 a 22.], #65 ([Novembro 1987]) [Usadas as páginas 17 a 19.], #67 (Janeiro de 1988) [Do original usadas as páginas 20, 21 e da página 22 as 3 primeiras vinhetas e parte da última]
-
in Der unglaubliche Hulk (Condor, 1980 series) #30 ([1991]) - in Marvel Héroes (Panini España, 2012 series) #56 - Alpha Flight de John Byrne (Septiembre 2014)
- in Alpha Flight by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2017 series) (2017)
- The flashback sequence (pp. 10-15; 18-19 [p. 19, panels 1-2]) is mostly a reprint of the back half of X-Men #109, February 1978. Scripter Chris Claremont and inker Terry Austin are credited for the reprinted parts in the indexer.
-
[no title indexed]
Alpha Waves / letters page / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from readers Reed Cockrell, Amy Sacks, Robert B. Clark, Kevin Frazer, Angelia Pitman and Evelyn Arroyo.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["The X-Men and Alpha Flight -- How They Met and What Happened Later"]
Alpha Flight -
1.
Dreams Die Hard...
Alpha Flight -
2.
[no title indexed]
Alpha Waves
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steve Coates
- Peter Croome
- Katy Hayhurst
- Kelly Langston-Smith
- François Manardo
- Darrel McCann
- Mike Nielsen
- Derek Reinhard
- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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