The New Mutants #81 [Newsstand]
(November 1989)

Marvel, 1983 Series
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Volume
1
Price
1.00 USD; 1.25 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics
Brand
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
Barcode
071486022077 11
Editing
Bob Harras (editor); Tom DeFalco (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

New Mutants / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Louis Williams (signed as L W)
Inks
Joe Rubinstein (signed as JR)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
Hercules; Magma [Amara Aquilla]; Jaime Suarez
Universe
Marvel : mainstream
Reprints

Faith (Table of Contents: 1)

New Mutants / comic story / 25 pages (report information)

Script
Chris Claremont (credited)
Pencils
Louis Williams (credited) (pp. 4-24); Terry Shoemaker (credited) (pp. 1-3, 25)
Inks
Joe Rubinstein (credited as Josef Rubinstein) (Guest Inker)
Colors
Gregory Wright (credited as Greg Wright)
Letters
Tom Orzechowski (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Four hundred-fifty years ago, the Church of Rome came to this land.
Genre
superhero
Characters
New Mutants: Cannonball [Sam Guthrie] (flashback); Cypher [Doug Ramsey] (flashback); Karma [Xi'an Coy Manh] (flashback); Magik [Illyana Rasputina] (flashback); Magma [Amara Aquilla] (also in flashback); Mirage [Dani Moonstar] (flashback); Sunspot [Roberto Da Costa] (flashback); Warlock (flashback); Wolfsbane [Rahne Sinclair] (flashback)
Apollo; Ares (cameo); Empath [Manuel de la Rocha]; Hercules (guest); Pluto [Hades]; Zeus; other Olympian gods; Jaime Suarez (introduction, death); Bennie; Sydney
Universe
Marvel : mainstream
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.
Reprints

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).

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    New Mutants
  2. 1. Faith
    New Mutants
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