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Issue: Rom #56
Publication Date: July 1984
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Issues: #56 of 75 Issues (202 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MarvelView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 03/20/1984
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.75 CAD
£0.30 GBP
$0.60 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 4 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #44, with newsstand on-sale date of 1984-04-10.

Ralph Macchio is credited on both the comic story and the letters page. Bob Harras is credited on the letters page only.
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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 series
Format Notes:  
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Some/all of Issue reprinted as/in another Issue:
FlagRom: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus #3 [unnamed variant] published January 2024
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Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
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Enter: Alpha Flight... and Something Lurking Beneath the Sea

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction, superhero
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Clear Waters Remembered!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction, superhero
Character(s): Dire Wraiths (villains)
Synopsis: Rom and Starshine are drawn to the mining town of Beaver Falls in Canada. Alpha Flight also arrives and helps the Spaceknights battle Wraithcreatures that crawl from Beaver Lake which the Dire Wraiths have created from salmon. Once the monsters are destroyed, the Wraiths use the polluted waters of the lake to form a tidal wave that bursts the nearby dam.
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Pages: 22
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[untitled]

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (The Hype Box)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Bulletins, Hype Box, and Check List.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Paul Higgins, Kirk Gartside, D. J. Oliver, Tony Hunter, Donovan Ice, Troy Wilson, and Patrick Reynolds with uncredited replies.

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