The New Mutants #50 [Direct]
(April 1987)

Marvel, 1983 Series
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Volume
1
Price
1.25 USD; 1.50 CAD; 0.40 GBP
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1986-12-02
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
Editing
Ann Nocenti (credited) (editor); Jim Shooter (credited) (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

No letters column this issue.
On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #107.
This issue has variants:

Magik Loses Control of Limbo! The Mutants Lost in Time! The Return of Xavier! All This and the Starjammers, Too! (Table of Contents)

New Mutants / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Rick Leonardi (signed as Leonardi)
Inks
Dan Green (signed as Green)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
Magik [Illyana Rasputina]; S'ym; Limbo demons
Universe
Marvel : mainstream
Reprints

Father's Day! (Table of Contents: 1)

New Mutants / comic story / 40 pages (report information)

Script
Chris Claremont (credited)
Pencils
Butch Guice (credited as Jackson Guice)
Inks
John Beatty (credited)
Colors
Glynis Oliver (credited)
Letters
Tom Orzechowski (credited as Orzechowski); Lois Buhalis (credited as Buhalis)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Time has no meaning in Limbo...
Genre
superhero
Characters
New Mutants (mainstream): Cannonball [Sam Guthrie] (mainstream); Cypher [Doug Ramsey] (mainstream); Karma [Xi'an Coy Manh] (mainstream); Magik [Illyana Rasputina] (mainstream); Magma [Amara Aquilla] (mainstream); Mirage [Dani Moonstar] (mainstream); Sunspot [Roberto Da Costa] (mainstream); Warlock (mainstream); Wolfsbane [Rahne Sinclair] (mainstream)
New Mutants (Earth-87050): Cannonball [Sam Guthrie] (mainstream); Cypher [Doug Ramsey] (mainstream)
Starjammers (mainstream): Binary [Carol Danvers] (mainstream) (guest); Ch'od (mainstream) (guest); Corsair [Christopher Summers] (mainstream) (guest); Cr'reee (mainstream) (guest); Hepzibah (mainstream) (guest); Lilandra Neramani (mainstream) (guest); Professor X [Charles Xavier] (mainstream); Raza (mainstream) (guest); Sikorsky (mainstream) (guest); Waldo (mainstream) (guest)
Magma [Amara Aquilla] (Earth-87050); Magus (mainstream) (villain); S'ym (mainstream) (villain); Sunspot [Roberto Da Costa] (Earth-87050) (Chief Arbitrator); Haggard
Universe
Marvel : mainstream; Marvel : Earth-87050
Synopsis
S'ym, now infected with the transmode virus, challenges Magik. Magik flees to Professor Xavier and updates him on recent events. They rescue the other New Mutants. Cypher figures out a way to defeat Magus. Warlock "adopts" Professor X as his father.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Double-sized issue. Professor X appears here following Uncanny X-Men (Marvel, 1981 series) #203.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Magik Loses Control of Limbo! The Mutants Lost in Time! The Return of Xavier! All This and the Starjammers, Too!
    New Mutants
  2. 1. Father's Day!
    New Mutants
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