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Issue: Alpha Flight #2

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Publication Date: September 1983

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Issues: #2 of 126 Issues (221 Printings)

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Variant: CA Cover Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0714860296709

Price: $0.75 CAD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
3 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Denny O'Neil (Editor); Jim Shooter (Editor-in-Chief)

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Color

Dimensions: Standard Modern Age US

Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: Was ongoing

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Alpha Flight #2 [Direct Edition]

Alpha Flight #2 [CA Cover Price]

Alpha Flight #2 [Newsstand]

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (3 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): John Byrne (signed)

Inker(s): Terry Austin (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Rick Parker ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Alpha Flight

Character(s): Alpha Flight [Guardian [James MacDonald Hudson]; Sasquatch; Aurora; Northstar; Shaman; Marrina; Puck]

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Pages: 1

Shadows of the Past

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): John Byrne

Penciller(s): John Byrne

Inker(s): John Byrne

Colorist(s): Andy Yanchus

Letterer(s): Tom Orzechowski

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Alpha Flight

Character(s): Alpha Flight [Guardian [James MacDonald Hudson; also as Vindicator]; Shaman; Snowbird; Aurora; Northstar; Puck; Marrina (Partial Origin); Sasquatch]; Chief Inspector Hamilton; Thompson; 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.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 17

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.

In The Beginning...

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): John Byrne

Penciller(s): John Byrne

Inker(s): John Byrne

Colorist(s): Andy Yanchus

Letterer(s): Tom Orzechowski

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Origins of Alpha Flight

Character(s): James MacDonald Hudson (Origin); Heather McNeil; Jerry Jaxon

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.

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Pages: 5

Notes: Beginning a series of back-up stories on the origins of Alpha Flight.