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Issue: X-Men / Alpha Flight #1

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Publication Date: May 1998

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Issues: #1 of 2 Issues (3 Printings)

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Variant: Newsstand

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Publisher: Flag

Marvel

Brand: Marvel Comics

Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 38

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 07447003505301

Price: $4.05 CAD
$2.99 USD

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Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
3 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Mark Powers; Bob Harras (editor-in-chief)

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.

Paper Stock: glossy

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: limited series

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Variants2

2 X-Men / Alpha Flight #1 [Direct Edition]

X-Men / Alpha Flight #1 [Newsstand]

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Content Items (3 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): John Cassaday [as JC] (signed)

Inker(s): John Cassaday [as JC] (signed)

Colorist(s): Liquid! (signed)

Letterer(s): Todd Klein

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): X-Men; Alpha Flight

Character(s): X-Men [Storm; Wolverine; Colossus]; Alpha Flight [Guardian; Northstar; Aurora; Puck]

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Pages: 1

Notes: Gatefold Marvel Universe Guide front cover.

Letters credit from Todd Klein via http://kleinletters.com/.

Recap and Roll Call

Reprise on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Penciller(s): various (illustrations)

Inker(s): various (illustrations)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: superhero

Feature(s): X-Men; Alpha Flight

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Pages: 2

Notes: Inside gatefold front cover.
Design by Comicraft's John Marasigan.

Survivors

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Ben Raab; John Cassaday

Penciller(s): John Cassaday

Inker(s): John Cassaday

Colorist(s): Jason Wright

Letterer(s): Michael Heisler

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): X-Men; Alpha Flight

Character(s): X-Men [Professor X [Charles Xavier]; Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Storm [Ororo Munroe]; Wolverine [Logan]; Colossus [Piotr Rasputin]; Nightcrawler [Kurt Wagner]; Kitty Pryde]; Alpha Flight [Guardian [James MacDonald Hudson]; Shaman [Michael Twoyoungmen]; Snowbird [Anne McKenzie]; Aurora [Jeanne-Marie Beaubier]; Northstar [Jean-Paul Beaubier]; Sasquatch [Walter Langkowski]; Puck]; Gary Cody; Heather Hudson; Baron von Strucker; Hydra; Jean Grey (in photograph); Iceman (in photograph); Beast (in photograph); Tundra (Flashback); Master of the World (Flashback); Marrina (Flashback)

Synopsis: Cody sells the design for Mac's power suit to fund the Alpha Flight program, not realizing he is selling it to Hydra. On their first date, Kitty and Colossus are abducted, along with the rest of the X-Men, by Hydra and Strucker as vengeance for Xavier's interfering in the good Baron's plans in the past. Alpha Flight is called in to the rescue.

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Pages: 32