Alpha Flight (Marvel, 1983 series) #4 [Direct]

Volume: 1

Price: 0.60 USD; 0.75 CAD; 0.25 GBP

Pages: 36

On-sale Date: 1983-07-26

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:	John Byrne (signed as BYRNE)
Colors:	?

Genre:superhero

Universe:

Marvel : mainstream

Characters:

Alpha Flight

Marrina

Master of the World [Eshu]
(hand only)

Reprints (6)

in Alpha Flight (Planeta DeAgostini, 1985 series) #3
in Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne (Marvel, 2001 series) #4 ([March] 2005)
in Fantastic Four by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2011 series) #2 (2013)
in Marvel Héroes (Panini España, 2012 series) #56 - Alpha Flight de John Byrne (Septiembre 2014), #60 - Los 4 Fantásticos de John Byrne 2 (Mayo 2015)
in Alpha Flight by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2017 series) (2017)

Indexer Notes

Signature dated 1983.

This issue has 2 variants

Issue Data

Publisher's Brand: Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
Indicia / Colophon Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
Indicia Frequency: monthly
Publisher's Age Guidelines: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Printer: ?

Parts of this issue are reprinted:

in Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 2003 series) #24 (2022)

Indexer Notes

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #29, with newsstand on-sale date of 1983-08-16.

Resolutions!

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Alpha Flight / comic story / 22 pages

Script:	John Byrne
Pencils:	John Byrne
Inks:	John Byrne
Colors:	Andy Yanchus
Letters:	Rick Parker

Genre:superhero

Universe:

Marvel : mainstream

Characters:

Alpha Flight

Aurora [Jeanne-Marie Beaubier]
(featured)
Guardian [James MacDonald Hudson]
(featured)
Northstar [Jean-Paul Beaubier]
(featured)
Sasquatch [Walter Langkowski]
(featured)
Marrina Smallwood
(origin) (featured)
Snowbird [Narya]
(featured)

Invisible Girl [Susan Storm Richards]
(guest)
Master of the World [Eshu; Eshu]
(villain)
Daniel Smallwood
Gladys Smallwood
(flashback)
Sub-Mariner [Namor]
(guest)

Synopsis:: The Master of the World explains Marrina's alien origins to her. Alpha Flight rescues her and destroys the Master's base. Marrina meets Namor and decides to live with the Atlanteans for a while.; in Strange (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #183 (5 mars 1985) [Moins 1 page/Minus 1 page]
in Secret Wars (Marvel UK, 1985 series) #10 (September 7, 1985) [pages 1-11. Panels 1 & 3 & the left half of the the two-pages spread of the page 10/11 centerfold merged into a single page with the other panels omitted. Story pages 4-6 are in colour with the rest in black & white], #11 (September 14, 1985) [pages 13-22. Story pages 2-5 & 10 in 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) #47 (8 de Maio de 1986) [Desta história foram usadas as páginas 2 a 19, 21 e 22.]
in Marvel Spesial (Semic, 1987 series) #2/1987 ([juni] 1987)
in Der unglaubliche Hulk (Condor, 1980 series) #25
in Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne (Marvel, 2001 series) #4 ([March] 2005)
in Alpha Flight Classic (Marvel, 2007 series) #1 ([April] 2007)
in Fantastic Four by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2011 series) #2 (2013)
in Marvel Héroes (Panini España, 2012 series) #56 - Alpha Flight de John Byrne (Septiembre 2014), #60 - Los 4 Fantásticos de John Byrne 2 (Mayo 2015)
in Alpha Flight by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2017 series) (2017)

Indexer Notes

First meeting of Namor and Marrina (the two later wed).

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Alpha Waves / letters page / 0.5 page

Script:	?
Letters:	typeset

Indexer Notes

Rather than place several letters of comment from readers, all readers who sent in a letter of comment on Alpha Flight #1 get named. Placed between pages 18 and 19 of the main sequence.

Editing

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Alpha Flight / cover / 1 page

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Issue Data

Indexer Notes

Resolutions! (Table of Contents: 1)

Alpha Flight / comic story / 22 pages

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Alpha Waves / letters page / 0.5 page

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Resolutions!

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