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Issue: Alpha Flight #7
Publication Date: February 1984
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Issues: #7 of 126 Issues (221 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct Edition
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MarvelView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 10/25/1983
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.75 CAD
£0.25 GBP
$0.60 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 4 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Denny O'Neil; Jim Shooter (Editor-in-Chief); Linda Grant (Assistant Editor)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #34, with newsstand on-sale date of 1983-11-15.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
Format Notes:  
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Aurora is back-- --but Northstar isn't sure he's happy about it..!!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): John Byrne (signed)
Inker(s): John Byrne (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Michael Higgins ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Alpha Flight
Character(s): Aurora; Northstar
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Héroes #56 published September 2014
as Aurora is Back-- --but Northstar isn't sure he's Happy about it..!! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Importance of Being Deadly

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): John Byrne
Penciller(s): John Byrne
Inker(s): John Byrne
Colorist(s): Andy Yanchus
Letterer(s): Michael Higgins
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Alpha Flight
Character(s): Alpha Flight [Aurora; Northstar]; Dr. Bosson; Raymonde Belmonde (Death); Danielle Belmonde; Deadly Ernest [Ernest St. Ives] (Introduction); Alex Thorne; Delphine Courtney (Introduction)
Synopsis: Northstar takes Aurora to a psychologist to see what can be done about her having two separate personas. He then takes her to see a good friend of his, Raymonde Belmonde. There they find out that the restaurant is being blackmailed by local crime lord Deadly Ernest. When Ernest's thugs barge in, Ernest kills Belmonde with a touch and kidnaps Aurora. Northstar does not dare reveal his powers before Belmonde's daughter Danielle, but swears revenge. Meanwhile, Delphine Courtney invites Alec Thorne to join her and her employer in a new project.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAlpha Flight Classic #1 published April 2007
as The Importance of Being Deadly [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Héroes #56 published September 2014
as La Importancia de Ser Letal [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
Disclose Notes: The title is a play on The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde, 1895). The adjective is used as a pun as it is interchanged with the name ‘Ernest,’ given to the antagonist in this issue.

John Byrne had to misread the spelling of ‘Raymond’ phonetically. Unlike French, the English pronunciation uttering the ‘d,’ [/de/] and Byrne indeed anxious to respect the use of French for his Quebecker characters, he added an ‘e’ at the end of Raymond, feminizing by mistake the first name.
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Let A Child Be Born

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): John Byrne
Penciller(s): John Byrne
Inker(s): John Byrne
Colorist(s): Andy Yanchus
Letterer(s): Michael Higgins
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Origins of Alpha Flight
Character(s): Professor David Camperton; Doctor Efford; Richard Lawrence Easton; Nelvanna; Hodiak; Lars; Carmichael; Snowbird (unnamed, origin); Shaman [Michael Twoyoungmen]
Synopsis: At an archeological dig in the Arctic Circle, an ancient headband is discovered. At night, it beckons to its finder and puts him in contact with two gods, who ask him to give up his "seed of humanity". Accepting, the man finds himself returned to earth fifteen years later. A year later, Shaman feels himself summoned to the site, where the goddess Nelvanna reveals herself to him, pregnant. Shaman performs the role of midwife to the goddess and a young infant is entrusted to his care.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSuperaventuras Marvel #31 published January 1985
as Origens da Tropa Alfa: Propósito [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAlpha Flight Classic #1 published April 2007
as Let a Child Be Born [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Héroes #56 published September 2014
as Que Nazca una Niña [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Although it is clearly a separate story, with separate story title and cast, this story continues the page numbering of the main Alpha Flight story.
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Alpha Waves

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Denny O'Neil
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Alpha Waves
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters of comment from readers Suzanne Crawbuck, Mary Reeves, Jay Tuttle, Jay West and Anthony Famularo, with replies from O'Neil.

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