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Issue Details

Issue #21
Published November 1984
Cover Price 1.00 USD
Pages 52
Editing Ann Nocenti (editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)
Notes Double-Sized Issue; Painted Cover; The newsstand version of this comic has a crazy scribbled $1.00 price drawn by Sienkiewicz.

Cover Details

Characters Wolfsbane, Magik, Magma, Cannonball, Sunspot.
Genre superhero
Pencils Bill Sienkiewicz
Inks Bill Sienkiewicz
Colors Bill Sienkiewicz
Notes Double-Sized Issue; Painted Cover; The newsstand version of this comic has a crazy scribbled $1.00 price drawn by Sienkiewicz.
Reprinted in Nuovi Mutanti, I (Play Press, 1989 series) #17

35 page New Mutants story "Slumber Party!"

Characters Professor X, Cannonball, Magik, Magma, Psyche, Sunspot, Wolfsbane; SC: Lockheed, Doug Ramsey, Warlock; GA: Magneto (from Marvel Graphic Novel #5; next: Uncanny X-Men #188).
Synopsis The New Mutant girls host a slumber party with their friends from Salem Center; Warlock destroys Asteroid M and lands near Xavier's school; after some chaos, the New Mutants bring in Doug to communicate with Warlock, and invite him to join the school.
Genre superhero
Script Chris Claremont
Pencils Bill Sienkiewicz
Inks Bill Sienkiewicz
Colors Glynis Wein
Letters Tom Orzechowski and L. Lois Buhalis
Notes Warlock joins the New Mutants at the end of this story, and Doug Ramsey shortly after. Magneto's long-time base, Asteroid M, is destroyed in this story; it is rebuilt in X-Men (1991) #1. The New Mutants appear next in New Mutants Annual #1.
Reprinted in New Mutants: The Demon Bear Saga, The (Marvel, 1990 series) #[nn]; in Nuovi Mutanti, I (Play Press, 1989 series) #17

1 page Cannonball illustration "Cannonball"

Characters Cannonball
Genre superhero
Script Chris Claremont
Pencils Bill Sienkiewicz
Inks Bill Sienkiewicz
Colors Glynis Wein
Letters Tom Orzechowski or L. Lois Buhalis
Reprinted in Nuovi Mutanti, I (Play Press, 1989 series) #17

1 page Magik illustration "Magik"

Characters Magik
Genre superhero
Script Chris Claremont
Pencils Bill Sienkiewicz
Inks Bill Sienkiewicz
Colors Glynis Wein
Letters Tom Orzechowski or L. Lois Buhalis
Reprinted in Nuovi Mutanti, I (Play Press, 1989 series) #17

1 page Sunspot illustration "Sunspot"

Characters Sunspot
Genre superhero
Script Chris Claremont
Pencils Bill Sienkiewicz
Inks Bill Sienkiewicz
Colors Glynis Wein
Letters Tom Orzechowski or L. Lois Buhalis
Reprinted in Nuovi Mutanti, I (Play Press, 1989 series) #20