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Issue: Alpha Flight Classic #3
Publication Date: January 2012
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Issues: #3 of 3 Issues
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Rating: T
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MarvelView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Worldwide Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/07/2012
Volume: 3
Pages: 284
ISBN: 9780785162926
UPC/EAN: 978078516292652999
Price: $27.99 CAD
$24.99 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 33 (12 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: cardstock cover
Binding: squarebound; trade paperback
Publishing Format: collected edition
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Genres: superhero
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Alpha Flight Classic

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Synopsis: Title page and table of contents with nine images from Alpha Flight drawn by John Byrne.
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Mysterious... Menacing... Macabre... Gilded Lily: Try to Forget Her!

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Gold and Love Affairs!

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Character(s): Alpha Flight [Heather Hudson; Puck; Shaman; Snowbird; Aurora; Sasquatch; Talisman [Elizabeth Twoyoungmen]]; Calvelli; Gilded Lily
Synopsis: Elizabeth tries to take off her mystic coronet and discovers she is fated to be Talisman forever as she cannot remove it. Aurora and Walter head to one of his old haunts to discover if it will be a good home base for Alpha Flight only to find it is already inhabited by the mysterious Gilded Lily whose touch turns men to gold.
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Bet on Diablo-- He's Been Doing This for Centuries!

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Character(s): Alpha Flight [Sasquatch; Aurora]; Diablo
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Love Wrought New Alchemy...

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Character(s): Alpha Flight [Sasquatch; Aurora; Snowbird]; Gilded Lily; Diablo (flashback)
Synopsis: Sasquatch and Aurora battle the Gilded Lily, a disciple of Diablo whose touch turns men to gold.
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Meet Pink Pearl... Such a Nice Lady!

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Character(s): Alpha Flight [Aurora; Northstar]; Pink Pearl
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Rub-Out

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Character(s): Alpha Flight [Heather Hudson; Aurora; Nortstar; Talisman [Elizabeth Twoyoungmen]; Walter Langkowski [Sasquatch] (flashback)]; Madison Jeffries; Box [Roger Bochs]; Clementine D'Arbanville; Pink Pearl; Bones; James MacDonald Hudson (False)
Synopsis: Heather thinks she sees her dead husband, Mac, in a crowd. Jeffries and Bochs make a new and improved Box suit. With her Jeanne-Marie persona dominant, Aurora seeks out her brother, Northstar, for help. They visit one of Jean-Paul's old friends at a circus only to find it is being overtaken by a tyrannical "fat lady" and her cohorts.
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The Unbelievable Secret of Sasquatch!

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Character(s): Alpha Flight [Sasquatch; Snowbird; Aurora; Puck; Talisman [Elizabeth Twoyoungmen]]
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Night of the Beast

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Character(s): Alpha Flight [Snowbird [Narya; Anne McKenzie]; Sasquatch (Death); Puck; Aurora; Talisman [Elizabeth Twoyoungmen]]; Douglas Thompson; Caliber; Tanaraq
Synopsis: Snowbird is tortured by the elder gods for allowing a Great Beast to roam free. As Alpha Flight battles Caliber, Snowbird shows up and attacks Sasquatch. Sasquatch stands revealed as the great beast Tanaraq and Snowbird takes on his form and rips out his heart.
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Character(s): Alpha Flight [Shaman; Puck; Aurora; Northstar; Talisman]; Somon
First Line: Join them in the strangest journey ever...
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Final Conflict

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Character(s): Alpha Flight [Heather Hudson; Shaman; Snowbird; Puck; Aurora; Northstar; Talisman; Box [Walter Langkowski]]; Douglas Thompson; Roger Bochs; Somon; Tundra; Kariooq; Tolamaq
Synopsis: Alpha Flight travels to the realm of the Great Beasts in order to recover Walter Langkowski's soul. They succeed in defeating Somon and his cohorts but, when they return to Earth with Walter's essence, they find his physical body has crumbled. The soul of Walter is placed into the Box robot. With the Great Beasts vanquished, Snowbird lets Alpha Flight believe that she has left the realm of Earth when she has really decided to settle down with her love, Doug Thompson.
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Doctor... Sorceror... Hero... Alpha Flight's Shaman

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Character(s): Alpha Flight [Heather McNeil Hudson; Shaman; Puck; Aurora; Northstar; Box [Walter Langkowski]; Talisman [Elizabeth Twoyoungmen]; Roger Bochs]; Guardian (silhouette only)
First Line: But he's dead --
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... And Graves Give Up Their Dead...

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Character(s): Alpha Flight [Heather McNeil Hudson; Shaman; Puck; Aurora; Northstar; Talisman [Elizabeth Twoyoungmen]; Box [Walter Langkowski]; Roger Bochs]; Guardian [Delphine Courtney, also as James MacDonald Hudson]; Caliber
Synopsis: As Alpha Flight is grilling Northstar about his old life as a terrorist, they get the news that Guardian, their dead leader, is battling Caliber. Talisman helps Guardian defeat his foe and "Mac" explains to his teammates and his wife how he survived the explosion of his suit during a battle with Omega Flight (in Alpha Flight #12): He was discovered by aliens who rebuilt him by integrating him with his suit. Walter tries out his new Box body.
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Defeated!

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Character(s): Alpha Flight [Heather Hudson; Puck; Northstar]; Omega Flight [Guardian [Delphine Courtney]; Wildchild; Diamond Lil; Flashback]
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If at First You Don't Succeed...

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Character(s): Alpha Flight [Heather McNeil Hudson; Shaman; Puck; Aurora; Northstar; Talisman; Box [Walter Langkowski]]; Macro System; Omega Flight [Guardian [Delphine Courtney]; Wildchild; Diamond Lil; Flashback]
Synopsis: Guardian trains once again with his old Alpha Flight team but a few members still have some reservations about his return from the dead. When the news comes in that Omega Flight has taken over a mall, the Alphans charge in only to be soundly defeated by the bad guys. Heather is confronted by Guardian who turns out, not to be her dead husband Mac, but the evil robot Delphine Courtney.
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Character(s): Alpha Flight [Shaman; Snowbird; Talisman [Elizabeth Twoyoungmen]]; Guardian [Delphine Courtney]
First Line: The choice is yours, Shaman! If you save Snowbird your daughter dies!!
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Betrayal

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Character(s): Alpha Flight [Heather Hudson; Shaman; Snowbird; Puck; Aurora; Northstar; Talisman [Elizabeth Twoyoungmen]; Box [Walter Langkowski]; Roger Bochs]; Douglas Thompson; Omega Flight [Guardian [Delphine Courtney]; Wildchild; Diamond Lil; Flashback]; Hulk [Bruce Banner] (cameo)
Synopsis: Most of Alpha Flight captured by Omega Flight at the Edmonton Mall, Shaman, Aurora & Box ride in to the rescue. Snowbird also leaves Doug to help her friends. The remainder of Alpha Flight learns too late that Guardian is really an evil robot as the villain snatches Shaman's medicine pouch & roots around inside for Smart Alec. Things get worse when Guardian turns the medicine pouch inside out which unleashes magical forces which threaten to destroy the world. Talisman is able to use her abilities to contain the madness but Shaman fails to rescue her & she is pulled into the pouch.
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Disclose Notes: Continued in Secret Wars II #4 and Incredible Hulk #313.
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Character(s): Alpha Flight [Heather Hudson; Puck; Box [Walter Langkowski]]; Beyonder; Hulk [Bruce Banner]
First Line: As if the Beyonder wasn't bad enough...
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Cross-Over

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Character(s): Alpha Flight [Heather McNeil Hudson; Shaman; Snowbird; Puck; Aurora; Northstar; Talisman [Elizabeth Twoyoungmen]; Box [Walter Langkowski]; Roger Bochs]; Madison Jeffries; Omega Flight [Guardian [Delphine Courtney]; Wildchild; Diamond Lil; Flashback]; Beyonder; Hulk [Bruce Banner]
Synopsis: Omega Flight tries to escape from their encounter with Alpha Flight but run into Madison Jeffries in the parking lot of the mall and he dispatches them singlehandedly. The Beyonder has rescued Talisman from Shaman's medicine pouch (in Secret Wars II #4), but Elizabeth is really angry with her father and magically sends the team back to their base without her. Roger Bochs "hooks" what looks to be a more suitable body for Walter than the Box robot but, unfortunately, the body already belongs to the incredible Hulk.
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Disclose Notes: Continued from Secret Wars II #4 and Incredible Hulk #313; The creative teams for Alpha Flight and Incredible Hulk switch next issue.
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Cut Bait & Run!

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Character(s): Alpha Flight [Heather Hudson; Shaman; Snowbird; Puck; Aurora; Northstar; Box [Roger Bochs]; Madison Jeffries]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Gary Cody; Talisman (cameo flashback)
Synopsis: Alpha Flight has tried to obtain a more suitable body than Box for Walter but, not only do they lose Walter, but they also hook the Hulk. With the Hulk rampaging through Canada, the Alphans have to overcome their individual fears and weaknesses to take down the jade giant. Alpha Flight becomes the official super hero team of Canada.
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Hook, Line, and Sinker

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Character(s): Hulk; Walter Langkowski [Sasquatch]; Alpha Flight [Heather Hudson; Shaman; Puck; Aurora; Northstar; Box [Roger Bochs]; Madison Jeffries] (cameo); Dr. Strange (cameo flashback); Nightmare (cameo flashback); Snowbird (cameo flashback)
Synopsis: Hulk is trying to do away with himself in the dimensional crossroads where he is trapped when he is tagged in the back by a mysterious force. Unable to shake the line, the Hulk's body is possessed by Walter Langkowski who explains that Alpha Flight is trying to find him a new body in another dimension. The displaced spirit of Bruce Banner agrees to let Walter have his body but, touched by the sacrifice, Walter refuses and leaves the Hulk. Banner is sucked into the Hulk's body once again and his body is pulled back to Earth by Alpha Flight.
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Disclose Notes: Continued in ALPHA FLIGHT #29; The creative teams for both Alpha Flight and Hulk make a permanent switch next issue.
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Character(s): the Avengers [the Black Knight [Dane Whitman]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Captain Marvel [Monica Rambeau]; Hercules; Starfox; the Wasp]; the Beyonder; Dazzler
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Love Is the Answer!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Alpha Flight [Aurora; Box; Heather Hudson; Northstar; Puck; Shaman; Snowbird; Talisman]; the Avengers [the Black Knight [Dane Whitman]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Captain Marvel [Monica Rambeau]; Hercules; Starfox; the Wasp](all illusions); the Beyonder; Dazzler; the Molecule Man; Sharon Ing; Brandy Clark (cameo); Cindy Adams (cameo); a Dire Wraith (cameo); Kurse [Algrim the Elf] (cameo); O.Z. Chase (cameo); President Ronald Reagan (cameo); Rom (cameo); the Silver Surfer (cameo); the Thing (cameo); Volcana (cameo)
Synopsis: The Beyonder wishes to explore the human concept of desire and picks Dazzler (whom he calls possibly the most powerful mutant to walk the planet) as his new love interest. Despite all of his best efforts at wining and dining, gift giving, emotional manipulation and showing off with his powers, he finds that the only way he can make her fall for him is to control her mind and force her. Finding this to be unfulfilling, he releases her from his control and abandons his quest.
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Disclose Notes: Continued in Dazzler (Marvel, 1981 series) #40, Alpha Flight (Marvel, 1983 series) #28, Rom (Marvel, 1979 series) #72 and the Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #261.
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X-Men and Alpha Flight #1-2

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Synopsis: Tells the story of X-Men / Alpha Flight (1985) #1-2, including a reprint of the cover of Alpha Flight (1983) #17 published without text.
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The Unbelievable Secret of Sasquatch!

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Character(s): Alpha Flight [Sasquatch; Snowbird; Aurora; Puck; Talisman [Elizabeth Twoyoungmen]]
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Character(s): Alpha Flight [Shaman; Snowbird; Talisman [Elizabeth Twoyoungmen]]; Guardian [Delphine Courtney]
First Line: The choice is yours, Shaman! If you save Snowbird your daughter dies!!
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Disclose Notes: Signature dated 1985.
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Character(s): Guardian
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Concluding John Byrne's Legendary Run!

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Synopsis: Back cover blurb includes hype text and a reprint of the cover of Alpha Flight (1983) #23.
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