The New Mutants #70 [Direct]
(December 1988)

Marvel, 1983 Series
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Volume
1
Price
1.00 USD; 1.25 CAD; 0.50 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1988-08-11
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics
Brand
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
Editing
Bob Harras (editor); Daryl Edelman (assistant editor); Tom DeFalco (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

On sale date from Amazing Heroes #147.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

New Mutants / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Bret Blevins (signed)
Inks
Bret Blevins (signed)
Colors
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
New Mutants [Cannonball [Sam Guthrie]; Magik [Illyana Rasputina]; Mirage [Dani Moonstar]; Sunspot [Roberto Da Costa]; Warlock; Wolfsbane [Rahne Sinclair]]
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Self-Fulfilling Prophesy (Table of Contents: 1)

New Mutants / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Louise Simonson
Pencils
Terry Shoemaker
Inks
Al Milgrom
Colors
Glynis Oliver
Letters
Joe Rosen
Genre
superhero
Characters
Hellfire Club [Black King [Sebastian Shaw]; Black Queen; White Queen [Emma Frost]]; New Mutants [Cannonball [Sam Guthrie]; Magik [Illyana Rasputina]; Mirage [Dani Moonstar]; Sunspot [Roberto Da Costa]; Warlock; Wolfsbane [Rahne Sinclair]]; Lila Cheney; Magneto [Erik Lehnsherr]; Spyder (villain); S'ym (villain); Gosamyr
Synopsis
Something strange is happening in New York City. Gosamyr helps the New Mutants escape. Gosamyr's "family" is revealed. Lila sacrifices herself to save everybody else. Magik teleports the New Mutants and Gosamyr to Limbo, where S'ym now rules supreme.
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Indexer Notes

Part 4 of 4. Lila Cheney appears next in Uncanny X-Men #273.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Report Card / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Dear New Mutants, Well, what can I say...

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from readers Shane Sahadi, Gregg Sherman, Charles Novinskie, Ed Bloemendaal, Jeff Mitchell, and Chris Barchuk.

Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    New Mutants
  2. 1. Self-Fulfilling Prophesy
    New Mutants
  3. 2. ["Dear New Mutants, Well, what can I say..."]
    Report Card
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