Alpha Flight #33 [Direct]
(April 1986)

Marvel, 1983 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.75 USD; 0.95 CAD; 0.40 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel 25th Anniversary
Printer
Printed in the U.S.A.
Editing
Rosemary McCormick-Lowy (assistant editor); Carl Potts (editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

This issue has variants:

[In this issue The Uncanny X-Men] (Table of Contents)

Alpha Flight / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Mike Mignola (signed as Mignola)
Inks
Mike Mignola (signed as Mignola)
Colors
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Alpha Flight [Vindicator [Heather Hudson]; Box [Roger Bochs]; Aurora; Northstar; Snowbird; Puck]; X-Men [Magneto; Wolverine; Storm; Rogue; Phoenix [Rachel Summers]; Colossus; Nightcrawler; Kitty Pryde]
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Cover Thumbnail for Alpha Flight (Marvel, 1983 series) #33 [Direct] Cover Thumbnail for Alpha Flight (1983 series) #33 [Newsstand] Cover Thumbnail for Alpha Flight (1983 series) #33 [Canadian]
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A Friend in Need (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script
Bill Mantlo (credited)
Pencils
Sal Buscema (credited)
Inks
Gerry Talaoc (credited)
Colors
Bob Sharen (credited)
Letters
Jim Novak (credited)
Genre
superhero
Characters
Alpha Flight [Vindicator [Heather Hudson]; Snowbird; Aurora; Northstar; Puck; Marrina; Box [Roger Bochs]; Madison Jeffries]; Douglas Thompson; Wolverine (partial origin); X-Men [Magneto; Colossus; Storm; Nightcrawler; Rogue; Kitty Pryde; Phoenix [Rachel Summers]]; Lady Deathstrike (cameo); Attuma (cameo); Namor, the Sub-Mariner (illusion)
Synopsis
Attuma tracks Marrina. Heather flies to the U.S. in order to get Wolverine to help her figure out how to work in the new Vindicator suit. After the pair reminisce about her part in Wolverine’s origin, they are attacked by Lady Deathstrike.
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script
?
Pencils
? (illustration)
Inks
? (illustration)
Colors
? (illustration)
Letters
typeset
Characters
Vindicator [Heather Hudson]

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from readers Stephen Scott Beau Smith, Tom Voytas, Ariel Solivar, and Brenda Robnett.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [In this issue The Uncanny X-Men]
    Alpha Flight
  2. 1. A Friend in Need
    Alpha Flight
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Alpha Waves
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