The New Mutants
#81
[Direct]
(November 1989)
Marvel,
1983 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 1.00 USD; 1.25 CAD; 0.60 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics
- Brand
-
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
- Editing
- Bob Harras (editor); Tom DeFalco (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
No letters column this issue.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
in [no title indexed]
New Mutants / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Louis Williams (signed as L W)
- Inks
- Joe Rubinstein (signed as JR)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Magma; Hercules
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Faith
New Mutants / comic story / 25 pages
- Script
- Chris Claremont
- Pencils
- Louis Williams (pp. 4-24); Terry Shoemaker (pp. 1-3, 25)
- Inks
- Joe Rubinstein
- Colors
- Gregory Wright
- Letters
- Tom Orzechowski
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Magma; Empath; New Mutants [Cannonball; Cypher; Karma; Magik; Magma; Mirage; Sunspot; Warlock; Wolfsbane] (Flashback); Hercules (guest-star); Zeus; Apollo; Ares; other Olympian gods; Jaime Suarez (introduction, death)
- Synopsis
- Magma tells Empath about how she met her god: when she once doubted her faith, Hercules visited her, but she did not believe he was real until he saved a boy from a fire and told him stories all night until he died, a hero, like Jason and the Argonauts.
Indexer Notes
A fill-in issue. Most of this story is a flashback to events that probably occurred between issues #35 and #36 (since this seems to be the New Mutants' first meeting with Hercules, before issue #40).
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