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Issue: Alpha Flight #2
Publication Date: September 1983
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Issues: #2 of 126 Issues (224 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct Edition
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 05/24/1983
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.75 CAD
£0.25 GBP
$0.60 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 3 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #26, with newsstand on-sale date of 1983-06-14.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Disclose Reprinted In8
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Alpha Flight [Guardian [James MacDonald Hudson]; Sasquatch [Dr. Walter Langkowski]; Aurora; Northstar; Shaman; Marrina; Puck]
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Héroes #56 published September 2014
as Beginning: The Mystery of Marrina! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Shadows of the Past

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Alpha Flight [Guardian [James MacDonald Hudson; also as Vindicator]; Shaman; Snowbird; Aurora; Northstar; Puck; Marrina (partial origin); Sasquatch [Dr. Walter Langkowski]]; Chief Inspector Hamilton; Thompson; Gary Cody; Angus (flashback); Tom Smallwood (flashback); Glad Smallwood (flashback); Dan Smallwood (flashback); Master of the World (cameo)
First Line: Twenty miles south and west of Fort Albany, Ontario...
Synopsis: Vindicator decides to rename himself Guardian. During a training session, Marrina goes feral and eviscerates Puck.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagDer unglaubliche Hulk #25 published May 1989
as Schatten der Vergangenheit [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAlpha Flight Classic #1 published April 2007
as Shadows of the Past [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Héroes #56 published September 2014
as Sombras del Pasado [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 17
Disclose Notes: Vindicator changes his name to ‘Guardian.’ It’s the third alias of the character within five years, since his first appearance in X-Men #109, Feb. 1978, under the pseudonym ‘Weapon Alpha.' James Hudson was back in X-Men #120, April 1979, under the new alias of ‘Vindicator.’ At the end of Alpha Flight #1, in Alpha Waves John Byrne’s editorial, the subject of the evolution of the character’s aliases is evoked and suggests the third and last change to come. To note that on page 5 - panel 2 of this episode, Shaman draws from words used in Byrne’s editorial published in Alpha Flight #1 to express his feeling about how inappropriate ‘Vindicator’ is from now on.
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In The Beginning...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): James MacDonald Hudson (origin); Heather McNeil; Jerry Jaxon
First Line: Jerry, no! You really can't be doing this to me!
Synopsis: Distraught with his technology being sold to the US Army, James decides to use the suit and take back the helmet, which was developed before joining Am-Can.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Marvel Saga the Official History of the Marvel Universe #1 [Direct Edition] published December 1985
as Book I: The Saga Begins...! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDer unglaubliche Hulk #25 published May 1989
as Der Ursprung von Alpha Flight: Wie alles begann [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAlpha Flight Classic #1 published April 2007
as In the Beginning [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Héroes #56 published September 2014
as En el Comienzo... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Beginning a series of back-up stories on the origins of Alpha Flight.

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