New Mutants Vol 1 87

Alternate Covers: Second Printing Gold Variant New Mutants Vol 1 #87 March, 1990 Editor-in-Chief Tom DeFalco Cover Artists Rob Liefeld Todd McFarlane Publisher Marvel Comics "A Show of Power!" Writers Louise Simonson Pencilers Rob Liefeld Inkers Bob Wiacek Colourists Mike Rockwitz Letterers Joe Rosen Editors Bob Harras Previous Issue Next Issue New Mutants #86 (title) New Mutants #88 (story) New Mutants Annual #5

Appearing in "A Show of Power!"

Featured Characters:

• The New Mutants
  • Boom-Boom
  • Cannonball (Sam)
  •  Mirage (Dani)  - (Leaves Team)
  • Rictor
  • Rusty Collins (Leaves Team)
  •  Skids 
  • Sunspot
  • Warlock
  • Wolfsbane (Rahne)

Supporting Characters:

•  Balder 
• Cable - (First full appearance as Cable)
• Eitri
• Hrimhari
•  Karnilla 
• Ship

• The Warrior's Three
  •  Fandral 
  •  Hogun 
  • Volstagg

Adversaries:

• Mindless Ones

• The Mutant Liberation Front
  • Forearm
  • Reaper
  • Strobe
  •  Stryfe  - (First full appearance)
  • Tempo
  • Thumbelina
  • Wildside
  •  Zero 

•  Mystique 

Other Characters:

• Several guards
• Unnamed ice-fairy from Tiwaz
• a reporter

Locations:

• Wyoming
  • Pine Bluffs
    • Energy Research Station
• Asgard
  • City of Asgard
  • Bifrost Bridge
• Washington, D.C.
  • a maximum-security hospital
• New York
  • New York City
    • Manhattan
      • Statue of Liberty
        
        

Synopsis for "A Show of Power!"

• Synopsis not yet written.

Notes

• A second printing gold metallic ink cover exists.

• The cover is an homage to the cover of Avengers #145 (March 1976).

• The story shown in the New Mutants Annual #5 takes place in between the panels of this issue.

• The is the first full appearance of Cable as an adult. His first appearance as an infant is in Uncanny X-Men #201.

• Stryfe and the The Mutant Liberation Front are formally introduced. Stryfe's face is revealed in New Mutants #100.

• Danielle Moonstar leaves the cast this issue. She returns in X-Force #27.
• This issue is reprinted in other comics and books, see references for more info.

See Also

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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
• [1] plot summary at uncannyxmen.net
• The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators - accessed on 04/16/2010

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