The New Mutants #22 [Direct]
(December 1984)

Marvel, 1983 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.60 USD; 0.30 GBP; 0.75 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1984-08-07
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
Editing
Ann Nocenti (credited) (editor); Peter Sanderson (credited) (assistant editor); Jim Shooter (credited) (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

Disney Sleeping Beauty tribute. On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #53, with newsstand on-sale date of 1984-08-28.
This issue has variants:

Once upon a Time... (Table of Contents)

New Mutants / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Bill Sienkiewicz (signed as BS) (painting)
Inks
Bill Sienkiewicz (signed as BS) (painting)
Colors
Bill Sienkiewicz (signed as BS) (painting)
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Wolfsbane [Rahne Sinclair]
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Indexer Notes

Painted cover; Sleeping Beauty tribute.

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The Shadow Within (Table of Contents: 1)

New Mutants / comic story / 18 pages (report information)

Script
Chris Claremont (credited)
Pencils
Bill Sienkiewicz (credited)
Inks
Bill Sienkiewicz (credited)
Colors
Glynis Oliver (credited as Glynis Wein)
Letters
Tom Orzechowski (credited)
First Line of Dialogue or Text
All limbered up?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Professor X; New Mutants [Cannonball; Magma; Mirage [Dani Moonstar]; Sunspot; Warlock; Wolfsbane]]; X-Men [Nightcrawler; Colossus]; Moira MacTaggert; Alystraea; Prince Duncan; Rumblebun; Silver Sorceress; Black Baron; Hellfire Club [Selene; Sebastian Shaw; Fredrich von Roehm (introduction); Emmanuel DaCosta] (villains)
Synopsis
Sunspot starts acting funny while training with Colossus. Professor X and Moira study Warlock. Selene makes a connection with the Hellfire Club. Wolfsbane writes a fairy tale, in which her beloved is consumed by shadow, and she kills the one responsible.
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Indexer Notes

Part 1 of 4. This story is a sequel to the New Mutants' first meeting with Cloak and Dagger in Marvel Team-Up Annual (Marvel, 1976 series) #6. The New Mutants appear here following New Mutants Annual #1.

Wolfsbane (Table of Contents: 2)

New Mutants / character profile / 1 page (report information)

Script
Chris Claremont
Pencils
Bill Sienkiewicz (signed as Bill Sienkiewicz)
Inks
Bill Sienkiewicz (signed as Bill Sienkiewicz)
Colors
Glynis Oliver
Letters
Tom Orzechowski
Genre
superhero
Characters
Wolfsbane [Rahne Sinclair]
Reprints

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

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

Script
Jim Shooter
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Tribute to Sol Brodsky, The Hype Box, untitled check list.

Mirage (Table of Contents: 4)

New Mutants / character profile / 1 page (report information)

Script
Chris Claremont
Pencils
Bill Sienkiewicz (signed as Bill Sienkiewicz)
Inks
Bill Sienkiewicz (signed as Bill Sienkiewicz)
Colors
Glynis Oliver
Letters
Tom Orzechowski
Genre
superhero
Characters
Mirage [Danielle Moonstar]
Reprints

Magma (Table of Contents: 5)

New Mutants / character profile / 1 page (report information)

Script
Chris Claremont
Pencils
Bill Sienkiewicz (signed as Bill Sienkiewicz)
Inks
Bill Sienkiewicz (signed as Bill Sienkiewicz)
Colors
Glynis Oliver
Letters
Tom Orzechowski
Genre
superhero
Characters
Magma [Amara Juliana Olivians Aquilla]
Reprints
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Once upon a Time...
    New Mutants
  2. 1. The Shadow Within
    New Mutants
  3. 2. Wolfsbane
    New Mutants
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Bullpen Bulletins; Hype Box; Mighty Marvel Checklist
  5. 4. Mirage
    New Mutants
  6. 5. Magma
    New Mutants
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