GCD :: Issue :: Magik (Illyana and Storm Limited Series) (Marvel, 1983 series) #4 [Direct]

Volume: 1

Price: 0.60 USD; 0.25 GBP; 0.75 CAD

Pages: 36

On-sale Date: 1983-11-08

Editing: Louise Simonson (credited as Louise Jones) (editor); Jim Shooter (credited) (editor-in-chief)

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Magik / cover / 1 page

Pencils:	Bret Blevins (signed as BB)
Inks:	Tom Palmer (signed as Tom Palmer)
Colors:	?
Letters:	? typeset

Genre:superhero

Universe:

Marvel : mainstream

Characters:

Illyana Rasputin

Reprints (9)

in Play Book (Play Press, 1990 series) #3
in The Mighty World of Marvel (Marvel UK, 1982 series) #17 (October 1984) [Reprints main figure with a different background]
in X-Men: Magik - Storm & Illyana (Marvel, 2008 series) [premiere edition] (2008)

in X-Men: Magik - Storm & Illyana (Marvel, 2013 series) (2013) [new trade dress]
in The Uncanny X-Men Omnibus (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2016) [1/4 page size sans logo and text]
in New Mutants Omnibus (Marvel, 2020 series) #1 (2020)

in X-Men: Hellbound (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 (July 2010)
in X-Men : l'intégrale (Panini France, 2002 series) #1988 (I) (août 2011), #1988 (I) (août 2011)
in The Uncanny X-Men Omnibus (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2016)
in Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men (Marvel, 2003 series) #10 (2017)
in New Mutants Epic Collection (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 - Renewal (2017)
in New Mutants Omnibus (Marvel, 2020 series) #1 (2020)

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
Printer: Printed in the U.S.A.

Parts of this issue are reprinted:

in X-Men: Magik - Storm & Illyana (Marvel, 2013 series) (2013)

Indexer Notes

On-sale date from Comic Reader #215, with newsstand on-sale date of 1983-11-29.

Darkchild

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Magik / comic story / 23 pages

Script:	Chris Claremont (credited)
Pencils:	Sal Buscema (credited)
Inks:	Tom Palmer (credited)
Colors:	Ken Feduniewicz (credited)
Letters:	Tom Orzechowski (credited)

Genre:superhero

First Line of Dialogue or Text:Ororo came to Belasco's citadel to rescue me.

Universe:

Marvel : Limbo (Demonic - Otherplace)

Marvel : mainstream

Characters:

New Mutants (Marvel : mainstream)

Cannonball [Sam Guthrie]
(mainstream)

(cameo)
Magma [Amara Aquilla]
(mainstream)

(cameo)
Mirage [Dani Moonstar]
(mainstream)

(cameo)
Sunspot [Roberto Da Costa]
(mainstream)

(cameo)
Wolfsbane [Rahne Sinclair]
(mainstream)

(cameo)

X-Men (Marvel : mainstream)

Colossus [Piotr Rasputin]
(mainstream)

(cameo)
Sprite [Kitty Pryde]
(mainstream)

(cameo)
Wolverine [Logan]
(mainstream)

(cameo)

Belasco
(mainstream)

(villain)
Cat [Kitty Pryde]
(Earth-8280)

(ghoul, also as a memory)
Colossus [Piotr Rasputin]
(Earth-8280)

(ghoul, also as a memory)
Dherk
(mainstream)

(cameo) (sculpture)
Ka-Zar [Kevin Plunder]
(mainstream)

(cameo) (sculpture)
Queen Leanne
(mainstream)

(cameo) (sculpture)
Nightcrawler [Kurt Wagner]
(Earth-8280)

(ghoul, also as a memory)
Illyana Rasputin
(mainstream)
Nikolai Rasputin
(mainstream)

(illusion)
Alexandra Rasputina
(mainstream)

(illusion)
S'ym
(mainstream)

(villain)
Shanna the She-Devil [Shanna O'Hara Plunder]
(mainstream)

(cameo) (sculpture)
Storm [Ororo Munroe]
(Earth-8280)

(death, also as a ghoul and a memory)
Wolverine
(Earth-8280)

(ghoul, also as a memory)

Limbo demons (villains)

Synopsis:: Illyana defeats Belasco and becomes ruler of Limbo. Illyana returns to Earth.; in The Savage Sword of Conan (Marvel UK, 1977 series) #90 (April 1985), #91 (May 1985)
in Un Récit Complet Marvel (Editions Lug, 1984 series) #10 - Magie (1986)
in Die Gruppe X (Condor, 1985 series) #15 (1990)
in X-Men: Magik - Storm & Illyana (Marvel, 2008 series) (2008)
in X-Men: Hellbound (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 (July 2010) [Pages 4-14 reprinted. Remainder pages not reprinted.]
in X-Men : l'intégrale (Panini France, 2002 series) #1988 (I) (août 2011)
in The Uncanny X-Men Omnibus (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2016)
in Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men (Marvel, 2003 series) #10 (2017)
in New Mutants Epic Collection (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 - Renewal (2017)
in New Mutants Omnibus (Marvel, 2020 series) #1 (2020)

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