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Issue Details

Issue #41
Published December 1986
Cover Price 0.75 USD; 0.95 CAD
Pages 36
Editing Joanne Spaldo (Assistant Editor); Carl Potts (Editor); Jim Shooter (Editor-in-Chief)

Cover Details

Characters Northstar; Purple Girl
Genre superhero
Pencils Dave Ross
Inks Dave Ross
Letters Typeset

22 page Alpha Flight story "It's Not Easy Being Purple"

Characters FEATURE: Alpha Flight--Vindicator [Heather Hudson]; Shaman; Snowbird; Aurora; Northstar; Puck; Box [Roger Bochs]; Madison Jeffries; GUESTS: Elizabeth Twoyoungmen [Talisman]; Purple Girl [1st; Kara Killgrave]; Melanie Killgrave; CAMEO FLASHBACK: Killgrave, the Purple Man; James MacDonald Hudson [Guardian]
Synopsis Jeffries officially joins Alpha Flight; Northstar takes some time off to do some skiing when he meets Kara Killgrave, daughter of the Purple Man who has inherited his powers of persuasion; After she controls Northstar for a short adventure, she has him take her to Alpha Flight for help.
Genre superhero
Script Bill Mantlo
Pencils Dave Ross
Inks Whilce Portacio
Colors Bob Sharen
Letters Jim Novak