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Issue: Alpha Flight #22
Publication Date: May 1985
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Issues: #22 of 126 Issues (224 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct Edition
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MarvelView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 01/08/1985
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.75 CAD
£0.30 GBP
$0.65 USD
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Content Items: 3 (1 story, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #63.
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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
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Meet Pink Pearl... Such a Nice Lady!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Alpha Flight [Aurora; Northstar]; Pink Pearl
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Héroes #56 published September 2014
as Meet Pink Pearl... Such a Nice Lady! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Alpha Flight [Heather Hudson; Aurora [Jeanne-Marie Beaubier]; Northstar [Jean-Paul Beaubier]; Talisman [Elizabeth Twoyoungmen]; Dr. Walter Langkowski [Sasquatch] (flashback)]; Madison Jeffries; Box [Roger Bochs]; Clementine D'Arbanville; Pink Pearl [Pearl Gross]; Bones; James MacDonald Hudson (false) [MX39147; Delphine Courtney]; Rhonda;
First Line: J-j-jean-Paul... 'elp me, please! Aidez-moi...!
Synopsis: Heather thinks she sees her dead husband, Mac, in a crowd. Jeffries and Bochs make a new and improved Box suit. With her Jeanne-Marie persona dominant, Aurora seeks out her brother, Northstar, for help. They visit one of Jean-Paul's old friends at a circus only to find it is being overtaken by a tyrannical "fat lady" and her cohorts.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Héroes #56 published September 2014
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Pages: 22
Disclose Notes: Pink Pearl’s character is almost redrawn identically in 1989 as Big Bertha [Ashley Crawford]. Big Bertha’s first appearance is in West Coast Avengers #46, July 1989.
First appearance of the new Box armor model 2.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Disclose Notes: Letters of comment from readers Juan Sanchez, Anonymous, Brian Tate, Miles Lewis, Michael Betti, Brad Junca, Tony Backs, David Gomshay and R. VanSchoyck.

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