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| I don’t see Xavier as David Koresh, I see him as Father Flannagan, the founder of the Boy’s Club of America. ~ Chuck Austen |
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| Alpha Flight | ||
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| My thoughts on this series as a whole have not entirely been formed yet, at least not so far as I
would feel comfortable making them public. But anyway, I highly doubt that you came here to read what it is that I
may or may not have thought. Take note that the following summaries are not mine, in an attempt to get some major holes filled, I have stolen The following issue summaries from here, they were originally written by Robert Diehl as a part of Chronology.Net. This information is being reproduced without permission of the authors. I intend to replace these with summaries of my own creation, but until then... | ||
| Issues Owned: | -1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 27, 29, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 46, 47, 48, 49, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 81, 94, 105, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 121, 122, 124, 125, 126 |
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| #-1 | July, 1997 |  | |
| Writer | Pencils | Inks | |
| Steve Seagle | Anthony Winn | Alquiza & Ryan & Conrad | |
Vows
... I have unfortunately not yet had the chance to summarise Marvel's issue #-1 of Alpha Flight. While
the cover image and credit information are mostly present, an issue summary has thus far managed to elude me. If you
would like to contribute to the Comic Gnome's comic book resource, this is an example of one of those places where
it could definately come in handy. If you also own or are overly familiar with issue number -1 of Alpha Flight
published in July, 1997 and you feel like putting your ol' book reporting skills to work, please visit the
Contact form and submit an issue summary today. Of course I'll check over what you submit before
I'll post your summary of Alpha Flight issue -1, but assuming it's accurate, you'll have my gratitude and the
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August, 1983 | #1 | |
| Writer | Pencils | Inks | |
| John Byrne | John Byrne | John Byrne | |
Tundra! Mac stands in the now-empty Department H installation beneath Parliament
Hill in Ottawa, thinking about the department's recent dissolution. In the Northwest Territories, Easton begins
a strange ritual, which is noticed by Michael's dead grandfather. Northstar visits Jeanne-Marie and yells at her
for hiding her beauty and her mutant power. We learn she has a split personality. Mac flies off to investigate
strange happenings in the Northwest Territories, and Heather signals the rest of Alpha Flight, Marrina and Judd
to help him. Snowbird sees Tundra rise from the earth, having consumed the spirit of its human agent. She calls
on her goddess-mother Nelvanna to aid her against this ancient foe, who attacks her with mosquitoes. It is linked
to and controls the land, so the team attacks it with the forces of natural erosion, Northstar and Aurora generating
wind, Michael rain, and Marrina a waterspout. The creature dissolves. The team decides to remain together, without
government sanction. | |||
| #2 | September, 1983 |  | |
| Writer | Pencils | Inks | |
| John Byrne | John Byrne | John Byrne | |
The Master The team plays war games in the Albany River Proving Grounds in Ontario. Mac struggles with taking over as team leader from Wolverine. Suddenly, Marrina falls ill, attacks Judd, and flees into the water. Michael rushes Judd to the hospital and operates. The rest of the team goes after Marrina in their Omni-Ship. Mac relates Marrina's origin: in a storm off Newfoundland a ship's captain was washed overboard. Drowning, he picked up a glowing object that buoyed him to the surface. It proved to be an egg, from which Marrina hatched. The Smallwoods raised her until she became a teenager and displayed super-human abilities. She then joined Department H. Marrina is summoned to a lab under the ice near the North Pole, where the Master welcomes her home. The Origins of Alpha Flight: In the Beginning Mac protests that Am-Can Petroleum Company is turning over an invention of his to the US military. The suit, intended to facilitate exploration, will be used instead in the Vietnam War. He uses the suit to destroy the blueprints, taking back the cybernetic helmet, which was his own property. | |||
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October, 1983 | #3 | |
| Writer | Pencils | Inks | |
| John Byrne | John Byrne | John Byrne | |
Yesterday Man Snowbird, sensing evil in the north, comes across Alpha Flight's crashed ship. She uses her powers to see that the ship was attacked and then turns into a polar bear to track her teammates. Mac and Walter try to find Northstar and Aurora, who are attacked and trapped by rods extending from the walls. Aurora slips into her Jeanne-Marie persona under the stress. Marrina is shackled and probed by the Master. He tells her his origin: 40,000 years ago, during the Ice Age, he was a bully and driven out of his tribe. He was oddly called north and came across a crashed spaceship, which captured and dissected him, using his brain as part of its computer matrix. Over the millennia, his will asserted itself, controlling the ship and making it construct a perfect body for him. He plans to destroy Marrina and her brood-mate and then take over the world. He is interrupted by Namor and Sue Richards. NOTE: the story continues in the Fantastic Four 260. Purpose Heather brings groceries to an out-of-work and depressed Mac, and confesses her love to him. They fly to Ottawa, explain Mac's actions last iss., and are retroactively hired by Trudeau, the beginning of Department H. Mac and Heather marry, and the Fantastic Four provide a model for Mac to follow. | |||
| #4 | November, 1983 |  | |
| Writer | Pencils | Inks | |
| John Byrne | John Byrne | John Byrne | |
Resolutions! Beginning before the end of the previous iss., Namor and Sue approach the Master's ice cap base and are shot out of the sky. Mac explains that Aurora has a split personality and is now in her Jeanne-Marie persona. Walter goes after her, while Mac looks for Northstar. Mac taps into the base's circuitry and learns that it is a threat to all life on earth. The Master explains that his ship was built by a conquering race from an old, crowded planet. The ship colonizes an uninhabited planet, reading local DNA and distributing egg pods. Marrina sprang from this process. Namor and Sue interrupt the Master, and he sets his machinery to kill Marrina, but Snowbird arrives as a swarm of mosquitoes and saves her. Mac and Northstar have been busting up the ship, and after they meet up with the rest, it explodes, destroying the ice cap. The Master is unaccounted for. | |||
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January, 1984 | #6 | |
| Writer | Pencils | Inks | |
| John Byrne | John Byrne | John Byrne | |
Snowblind Hamilton orders an investigation of Anne's absences and confines her meanwhile. Further north, an oil rig drills up the beast Kolomaq, embodiment of winter. Snowbird breaks out of her cell to confront him. Mac muses on Dept. H's dissolution, Alpha Flight's independence from the government, and his role as superhero. Returning home, he gets a surprising letter from Roxxon. Kolomaq recognizes Snowbird as the spirit of the Hodiak and the power of Nelvanna and fights her with snowblindness. She transforms to a bear, an owl, and a human and fights him, finally tricking him into causing an avalanche of rock, burying him beneath the tundra again. The Old Ways Michael opens a bag containing his grandfather's skull and is confronted with his spirit, who begins teaching him to be a shaman. His final test is to take pine needles from an empty medicine bag, and when he passes, Dr. Strange and the Ancient One applaud from New York. | |||
| #7 | February, 1984 |  | |
| Writer | Pencils | Inks | |
| John Byrne | John Byrne | John Byrne | |
The Importance of Being Deadly Northstar has taken his sister to a doctor, who can't find any problems with her, but warns him she may develop a third personality. We learn that the twins had been raised separately and were only recently reunited. In the street, a mugger takes her purse, triggering the transformation to Aurora. The mugger is bailed out by St. Ives. Northstar's dear friend Belmonde takes them to his cafe, which is empty because of St. Ives' harassment. He wants to buy the cafe, and arrives with thugs. He kills Belmonde with a touch and takes Aurora, mistaking her for Danielle. In Winnipeg, Courtney enthralls Smart Alec. Let a Child Be Born 15 years ago at an archaeological dig, a metal headband is found. Late that night, Easton dons it and is confronted by the gods. He spends one night with a beautified Nelvanna, reappears 9 years later and goes mad. Nelvanna then appears to Michael, who helps her give birth to Snowbird. She is to fight the beasts that threaten the world. | |||
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March, 1984 | #8 | |
| Writer | Pencils | Inks | |
| John Byrne | John Byrne | John Byrne | |
Cold Hands Cold Heart Belmonde's autopsy reveals nothing. To rescue his sister, Northstar breaks into St. Ives' mansion; and Nemesis vows to kill him. Aurora is making nice with St. Ives, and Northstar is knocked cold with a blackjack. He wakes with Nemesis' atom-wide sword at his throat, but they ally. St. Ives was a soldier in WW1, gassed and dying, but he rejected death and vanquished it. In doing so, his touch became deadly. Nemesis attacks St. Ives, whose touch doesn't work on her. She slices him to pieces before Northstar can stop her. She knocks him cold, and Aurora lets her flee. She takes Northstar to confront Danielle, who was working with St. Ives, and has her arrested. Northstar assumed Aurora had trysted with St. Ives to save her life. Outraged, she breaks their partnership. Genesis Years ago, Heather introduces Mac to Michael, and he introduces Snowbird, without explaining what she is. Late that night, Heather spies on her and sees her transform into an owl. Michael explains (see last iss.), and James offers to take them into Dept. H. | |||
| #9 | April, 1984 |  | |
| Writer | Pencils | Inks | |
| John Byrne | John Byrne | John Byrne | |
Things Aren't Always What They Seem At Mt. Logan Cosmic Ray Research Station, Walter conducts an experiment, which latches onto the Thing and materializes him. Duncan attends to the unconscious Thing and is attacked and killed. Walter realizes it is an attempted frame-up of the Thing, and follows to find the real villain. He is attacked, as is the station. Walter is the only survivor and realizes that their enemy is the Super Skrull, impersonating the Thing. A Stranger in My Mirror At the age of 13, Jeanne-Marie tried to commit suicide by jumping off the roof of her girls' school, but instead learns that she can fly. She tells Sister Anne, who punishes her for blasphemy. She sees another self in the mirror and runs away for three days. Returning, she is again punished and decides to repress her Aurora personality. She joins the teaching staff, but then relapses, visiting a nightspot, getting mugged, and fighting back. Wolverine notices her and decides to introduce her to James Hudson. | |||
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May, 1984 | #10 | |
| Writer | Pencils | Inks | |
| John Byrne | John Byrne | John Byrne | |
Blood Battle The Hudsons move to New York, since James has got a new job with Roxxon oil company. Walter battles the Super Skrull and nearly defeats him, but is hypnotized. The Super Skrull orders him to help return to his home world, and Walter plays possum long enough to beam him randomly into space. Returning home to Vancouver, Walter finds that Aurora has returned to him after leaving her brother (iss. 8). Family Ties Mac determines that Aurora has a twin brother, Jean-Paul Martin, and confronts him, telling him he knows he has mutant powers and has used them to become a champion skier (who is not a ladies' man). Aurora introduces herself and convinces him to join the team. | |||
| #11 | June, 1984 |  | |
| Writer | Pencils | Inks | |
| John Byrne | John Byrne | John Byrne | |
Set-Up Courtney approaches Bochs with an offer, and he is unable to warn Mac. Heather moves from Ottawa to New York. Courtney has assembled former Dept. H members in the World Trade Center using a mind-influencer and introduces Jaxxon, who wants them to destroy Mac. Mac fails to meet Heather at the airport and realizes that she has been taken by Jaxxon, his old enemy (see iss. 2), who contacts him and sics Omega Flight on him. Unleash the Beast Walter conducts experiments on himself, based on Banner's research, and is transformed into Sasquatch. Snowbird checks on his lab and follows a path of destruction to Walter, unconscious in the snow. Michael doctors him, and he joins Alpha Flight. | |||
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July, 1984 | #12 | |
| Writer | Pencils | Inks | |
| John Byrne | John Byrne | John Byrne | |
...And One Shall Surely Die Heather realizes she has been kidnapped by Jaxxon, who wants revenge on Mac for betraying him and ruining his life (see iss. 2). She tries to escape Courtney, and discovers she is a robot. Alpha Flight (except for a romantically-engaged Marrina) assemble in response to Mac's distress call. Northstar and Walter fight over Aurora until Judd, Michael, and Snowbird stop them. Aurora snaps Walter out of his rage, and Michael ports all of them to Mac's side, where he is engaged with Omega Flight. Michael realizes that he has bound Anne's spirit to the land of Canada. Smart Alec looks into Michael's medicine bag and goes mad. Jaxxon takes over Box to have the privilege of killing Mac, but he tears out the circuitry, and the feedback kills Jaxxon. The power pack in Mac's suit explodes, burning him to cinders, just as Heather finds him. | |||
| #14 | September, 1984 |  | |
| Writer | Pencils | Inks | |
| John Byrne | John Byrne | John Byrne | |
Biology Class Snowbird, having faced death, returns to Canada. She leaves a mysterious stain on the rock where she had been standing. Judd and Heather spend some time vacationing in Toronto, and are interrupted by the scream of a woman who lost her baby in Lake Ontario. Heather dives in after the baby and is attacked by a tentacled monster. Aurora is attacked by her Jeanne-Marie personality in the mirror. Heather recovers in the hospital while Judd is briefed by MacMurry on the serial killer sea monster. Namor proposes to Marrina, but Judd then summons her. He thinks the sea creature is another of her kind and wants her to help destroy it. At an archaeological dig in Calgary, Elizabeth unearths a vengeful skull (of Zebediah Chase, see iss. 19) and decides to seek her father's help. | |||
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October, 1984 | #15 | |
| Writer | Pencils | Inks | |
| John Byrne | John Byrne | John Byrne | |
Blind Date Snowbird returns to the Northwest Territories and reveals her true nature to Thompson. As she turns to leave, he professes his love for her. Marrina investigates the monster in Lake Ontario and finds a mysterious chamber. She emerges from the lake enraged and monstrous herself, and attacks Judd for the second time (see iss. 2). Namor arrives and at first assumes Judd is the aggressor and fells him Elizabeth storms into her father's office, reunited with him for the first time in 15 years (see iss. 5), but only seeking his help as Shaman. Namor realizes he must battle Marrina, and they are observed by the Master, who fells first Judd and then Namor and plans to take over the world. | |||
| #18 | January, 1985 |  | |
| Writer | Pencils | Inks | |
| John Byrne | John Byrne | John Byrne | |
How Long Will a Man Lie in the Earth 'Ere He Rot? Heather tries to reassemble the team. Northstar refuses her, and Michael is off with his daughter, investigating an evil skull (see iss. 14). Stang, an old man, is convinced by his great-granddaughter Emily to take his pills. He has been an evil man and did not know her until a year before, but she sees good in him and evil in a frying pan. Snowbird refuses Doug's love (see iss. 15) and, to convince him, shows him her true face. Michael and Elizabeth investigate Emily's monster scrambled eggs, and combat them with an incompatible interdimensional interface. Michael realizes this was just a diversion, and they go to find Lucas surrounded by mysterious energies. He attacks Michael, while Emily is possessed by Ranaq and attacks Elizabeth, forcing her latent spiritual (and possibly mutant) powers to the surface. Together, Michael and Elizabeth vanquish the monster, returning Emily to normal, and Michael plans to take a pilgrimage back in time. | |||
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