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Issue Details

Issue #31
Published February 1986
Cover Price 0.75 USD; 0.95 CAD
Pages 36
Editing Rosemary McCormick-Lowy (Assistant Editor); Carl Potts (Editor); Jim Shooter (Editor-in-Chief)

Cover Details - "Avoid the Lethal Touch of Deadly Ernest!"

Characters Puck; Aurora; Northstar; Nemesis; Deadly Ernest
Genre superhero
Pencils Mike Mignola
Inks Mike Mignola
Letters Typeset

22 page Alpha Flight story "The Grateful Dead!"

Characters FEATURE: Alpha Flight--Heather Hudson; Shaman; Snowbird; Puck; Aurora; Northstar; Box [Roger Bochs]; Madison Jeffries; GUESTS: Nemesis; Lionel Jeffries; Douglas Thompson; VILLAIN: Deadly Ernest; CAMEO FLASHBACK: Talisman
Synopsis Alpha Flight learns that Lionel has accidentally resurrected Deadly Ernest; They meet up with Nemesis and face off against the man whose touch is death but Heather is captured; Nemesis gives Puck her sword and he rescues Heather and kills Ernest; With her reason for existing gone, Nemesis dissolves to ashes.
Genre superhero
Script Bill Mantlo
Pencils Mike Mignola
Inks Gerry Talaoc
Colors Bob Sharen
Letters Jim Novak