Alpha Flight #22 [Direct]

(May 1985)

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Alpha Flight / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

John Byrne

Pencils

John Byrne

Inks

Bob Wiacek

Colors

Andy Yanchus

Letters

Rick Parker

First Line of Dialogue or Text

J-j-jean-Paul... 'elp me, please! Aidez-moi...!

Genre

superhero

Characters

Alpha Flight [Heather Hudson; Aurora [Jeanne-Marie Beaubier]; Northstar [Jean-Paul Beaubier]; Talisman [Elizabeth Twoyoungmen]; Dr. Walter Langkowski [Sasquatch] (flashback)]; Madison Jeffries; Box [Roger Bochs]; Clementine D'Arbanville; Pink Pearl [Pearl Gross]; Bones; James MacDonald Hudson (false) [MX39147; Delphine Courtney]; Rhonda;

Synopsis

Heather thinks she sees her dead husband, Mac, in a crowd. Jeffries and Bochs make a new and improved Box suit. With her Jeanne-Marie persona dominant, Aurora seeks out her brother, Northstar, for help. They visit one of Jean-Paul's old friends at a circus only to find it is being overtaken by a tyrannical "fat lady" and her cohorts.

Reprints

• in Strange (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #204 (5 décembre 1986) [10 pages seulement/Only 10 pages]
• in Der unglaubliche Hulk (Condor, 1980 series) #32
• in Alpha Flight Classic (Marvel, 2007 series) #3 (2007)
• 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

Pink Pearl’s character is almost redrawn identically in 1989 as Big Bertha [Ashley Crawford]. Big Bertha’s first appearance is in West Coast Avengers #46, July 1989.
First appearance of the new Box armor model 2.

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Alpha Waves / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

Denny O'Neil

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from readers Juan Sanchez, Anonymous, Brian Tate, Miles Lewis, Michael Betti, Brad Junca, Tony Backs, David Gomshay and R. VanSchoyck.