Alpha Flight (Marvel, 1983 series) #2 [Direct]

Volume: 1

Price: 0.60 USD; 0.75 CAD; 0.25 GBP

Pages: 36

On-sale Date: 1983-05-24

Editing: Denny O'Neil (editor); Linda Grant (assistant editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

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Alpha Flight / cover / 1 page

Pencils:	John Byrne (signed as Byrne)
Inks:	Terry Austin (signed as austin)
Colors:	?
Letters:	Rick Parker ?

Genre:superhero

First Line of Dialogue or Text:Puck, be careful!

Characters:

Alpha Flight

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This issue has 2 variants

Issue Data

Publisher's Brand: Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
Indicia / Colophon Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
Indicia Frequency: monthly
Publisher's Age Guidelines: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Printer: Printed in the U.S.A.

Indexer Notes

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #26, with newsstand on-sale date of 1983-06-14.

Shadows of the Past

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Alpha Flight / comic story / 17 pages

Script:	John Byrne
Pencils:	John Byrne
Inks:	John Byrne
Colors:	Andy Yanchus
Letters:	Tom Orzechowski

Genre:superhero

First Line of Dialogue or Text:Twenty miles south and west of Fort Albany, Ontario...

Characters:

Alpha Flight

Aurora [Jeanne-Marie Beaubier]
Guardian [James MacDonald Hudson]
(also as Vindicator)
Marrina
(partial origin)
Northstar [Jean-Paul Beaubier]
Puck [Eugene Judd]
Sasquatch [Walter Langkowski]
Shaman [Michael Twoyoungmen]
Snowbird [Narya]

Chief Inspector Hamilton; Thompson; Gary Cody; Angus (flashback); Tom Smallwood (flashback); Glad Smallwood (flashback); Dan Smallwood (flashback); Master of the World (cameo)

Synopsis:: Vindicator decides to rename himself Guardian. During a training session, Marrina goes feral and eviscerates Puck.; in Strange (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #181 (5 janvier 1985)
in Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars (Marvel UK, 1985 series) #6 (July 6, 1985) [pages 1-6. Pages 1-2 in black & white with the rest in colour], #7 (July 20, 1985) [Pages 7-17. Story pages 3-6 & 10 are colour with the balance in black & white. Story page 1 reduced in size to add a title & side banner with a depiction of Alpha Flight]
in Superaventuras Marvel (Editora Abril, 1982 series) #46 (8 Abril 1986)
in Marvel Spesial (Semic, 1987 series) #2/1987 ([juni] 1987)
in Der unglaubliche Hulk (Condor, 1980 series) #25
in Alpha Flight Classic (Marvel, 2007 series) #1 ([April] 2007)
in Marvel Héroes (Panini España, 2012 series) #56 - Alpha Flight de John Byrne (Septiembre 2014)
in Alpha Flight by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2017 series) (2017)

Indexer 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.