Beauty and the Beast #2 [Newsstand]

(February 1985)

Heartbreak Hotel (Table of Contents: 1)

Beast; Dazzler / comic story / 23 pages (report information)

Script

Ann Nocenti (credited)

Pencils

Don Perlin (credited)

Inks

Kim DeMulder (credited)

Colors

Petra Goldberg (credited as Petra Scotese)

Letters

Joe Rosen (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Society disdains the misfits it has birthed.

Genre

superhero

Characters

Gladiators: Alexander Flynn (villain, also in flashback); Horns (villain); Hugo Longride (villain, also in flashback); Max Rocker (also in flashback); Ivich Williamson (first appearance)
Beast [Hank McCoy] (also in flashback); Dazzler [Alison Blaire] (also in flashback); Doctor Doom [Victor Von Doom] (villain); Kate; Link (first appearance); Poltergeist; Lucy

Universe

Marvel : mainstream

Synopsis

Dazzler's powers are out of control and she is recuperating under the watchful eye of Beast at a residence for displaced mutants. The pair begin to foster a romance. Alexander Flynn arrives at the hotel and promises to help Dazzler with her power problems if she will come perform. She agrees, Beast follows and attends Dazzler's first performance and is horrified to find that the theater is a arena where mutants fight. Alex promises Dazzler it is staged but a mutant is killed. Beast tries to get Dazzler to leave with him but she begins to feel at home with her fellow misfit mutants and refuses.

Reprints

• in Coleccíon Extra Superheroes (Planeta DeAgostini, 1983 series) #12 (Octubre 1985)
• in Limited Serie (Juniorpress, 1985 series) #4 (1987)
• in Un Récit Complet Marvel (Editions Lug, 1984 series) #15 - La Belle et la Bête ([août] 1987)
• in Essential Dazzler (Marvel, 2007 series) #2 [black and white]
• in X-Men: Beauty & The Beast (Marvel, 2012 series) (2012)
• in Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #7 ([May] 2013) [black and white]
• in Defenders Epic Collection (Marvel, 2016 series) #8 - The New Defenders (2018)