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Issue Details

Issue #7
Published September 1983
Cover Price 0.60
Pages 36
Editing Louise Jones (editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

Cover Details

Characters Sunspot, Cannonball, Axe, Nina DaCosta.
Genre superhero
Pencils Bob McLeod
Inks Bob McLeod
Reprinted in Nuovi Mutanti, I (Play Press, 1989 series) #7

22 page New Mutants story "Flying Down to Rio!"

Characters Professor X, Cannonball, Psyche, Sunspot, Wolfsbane; V: Sebastian Shaw, Emmanuel DaCosta (Sunspot's father, from Marvel Graphic Novel #4), Axe (I; next: issue #29); GA: Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus; SC: Lilandra; OC: Nina DaCosta (I, Sunspot's mother).
Synopsis Prof. X, suspecting foul play in Karma's disappearance, sends the New Mutants to Rio de Janiero with Sunspot's archaeologist mother, who is captured by the Hellfire Club; the New Mutants rescue her, unaware that Sunspot's father is plotting against her.
Genre superhero
Script Chris Claremont
Pencils Sal Buscema
Inks Bob McLeod
Colors Glynis Wein
Letters Tom Orzechowski
Notes Part 1 of 6. This is the last issue in which Dani uses the code-name "Psyche." In issue #22 she begins using "Mirage." (This index will continue to call her "Psyche" until then.)
Reprinted in Nuovi Mutanti, I (Play Press, 1989 series) #7