New Mutants Annual Vol 1 4

Part of the 'Evolutionary War' event

New Mutants Annual Vol 1 #4

September, 1988

Editor-in-Chief

Tom DeFalco

Cover Artists

June Brigman
Bob McLeod

Publisher

Marvel Comics

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(title) Giant-Sized Annual New Mutants #3
(story) Silver Surfer Annual #1

(title) New Mutants Annual #5
(story) Amazing Spider-Man Annual #22

Appearing in "Mind Games" (Evolutionary War, Pt. 4)

Featured Characters:

• The New Mutants
  •  Cannonball (Sam) 
  • Magik (Illyana)
  •  Mirage (Danielle) 
  • Sunspot (Roberto da Costa)
  •  Warlock 
  •  Wolfsbane (Rahne) 
•  Magneto / White King (Magnus) 

Supporting Characters:

• Brightwind
• Bulk - (Death)
• Empath (Manuel)
• Glow Worm - (Death)

• The Hellfire Club
  • Black King
  •  Black Queen 
  •  White Queen (Emma Frost) 

• Lucius Antonius Aquilla
•  Magma (Amara) 

Vilains:

•  High Evolutionary 
• The Purifiers
  • Major Purge
  • Dr. Stack
• Stack's monstruous vision of what Humanity may become without the High Evolutionary's direction, come to life through Mirage's powers

Other Characters:

• Unnamed Purifier soldiers and technicians
• Several Hellfire Club soldiers
• Cypher (In a photograph only)
• Emma Frost
• Hellions (In a photograph only)
  • Tarot (In a photograph only)
  • Catseye (In a photograph only)
  • Roulette (In a photograph only)
  • Thunderbird (In a photograph only)
  • Jetstream (In a photograph only)
• Forge (Mention)

Locations:

• New Jersey
  • Chemical dump
• Space
• New York
  • Westchester County
    • Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters
      • Danger Room
• Brazil
  • Madeira
    • Nova Roma
• Massachusetts
  • Snow Valley
    • Massachusetts Academy
• Wyoming
  • Jackson Hole
    • Purifiers' Complex (44º50'34"N, 105º50'W)
• Limbo

Items:

• Illyana's scrying glass (Mention)

Vehicles:

• High Evolutionary's spaceship
  
  

Solicit Synopsis:

The New Mutants enter the war against the High Evolutionary — and one of the New Mutants winds up with a whole new set of powers! Plus: a special bonus feature giving all the details on those aforementioned mysterious new powers!

Appearing in "If Wishes Were Horses"

Featured Characters:

•  Mirage (Daniele Moonstar) 

Supporting Characters:

• Brightwind
• Magneto
• The New Mutants
  • Cannonball (Sam Guthrie)
  • Magik
  • Sunspot
  •  Warlock 

Other Characters:

• Unnamed policeman
  
  

Synopsis for "If Wishes Were Horses"

• Synopsis not yet written.
  
  

  Appearing in "Blood Drawn, Blood Spilt (The High Evolutionary, Chapter 4)"

Featured Characters:

• Herbert Wyndham

Supporting Characters:

• Jonathan Drew
• Jessica Drew
• Merriem Drew
• Phillip
• Phaeder (Only in flashback)

Adversaries:

• Gregor Russoff

Other Characters:

•  Gilgamesh 
• Unnamed Moloids

Locations:

• Transia
  • Wundagore Mountain
    
    

Synopsis for "Blood Drawn, Blood Spilt (The High Evolutionary, Chapter 4)"

• Synopsis not yet written.

Notes

• Part of the Evolutionary War event.
• It is highly debated who the figure in the 3rd story truly is. Some people believe it is W:C:marvel:Nathaniel Essex (Earth-616)Mr. Sinister, while others believe it is Phaeder. It has not, to this date, been revealed. However, for this issue, we have used Phaeder for the appearance.
• The second story of this issue is reprinted in other comics and books, see references for more info.
  

Trivia

• No trivia.

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See Also

• Discuss New Mutants Annual Vol 1 4 on the forums
• Cover gallery for the New Mutants Annual series

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Recommended Reading

Evolutionary War
X-Factor Annual #3	Punisher Annual Vol 2 #1	Silver Surfer Annual #1	New Mutants Annual #4	Amazing Spider-Man Annual #22	Fantastic Four Annual #21	Uncanny X-Men Annual #12	Web of Spider-Man Annual #4	West Coast Avengers Annual #3	The Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #8	Avengers Annual #17

Links and References

• The New Mutants at Wikipedia
• The New Mutants at Marvel Subscriptions
• The New Mutants series index at Comicbookdb.com
• The New Mutants series index at Uncanny X-Men.net
• The New Mutants series index at the Grand Comics Database Project
• The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators - accessed on 04/19/2010