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Issue Details

Issue #81
Published November 1989
Cover Price 1.00
Pages 36
Editing Bob Harras (editor); Tom DeFalco (editor-in-chief)

Cover Details

Characters Magma, Hercules.
Genre superhero
Pencils Louis Williams
Inks Josef Rubinstein

25 page New Mutants story "Faith"

Characters Magma, Empath; in flashback: Cannonball, Cypher, Karma, Magik, Magma, Mirage, Sunspot, Warlock, Wolfsbane; GS: Hercules; GA: Zeus, Apollo; OC: Jaime Suarez (I, D).
Synopsis Magma tells Empath about how she met her god: when she once doubted her faith, Hercules visited her, but she did not believe he was real until he saved a boy from a fire and told him stories all night until he died, a hero, like Jason and the Argonauts.
Genre superhero
Script Chris Claremont
Pencils Louis Williams (pp. 4-24), Terry Shoemaker (pp. 1-3, 25)
Inks Josef Rubinstein
Colors Gregory Wright
Letters Tom Orzechowski
Notes A fill-in issue. Most of this story is a flashback to events that probably occurred between issues #35 and #36 (since this seems to be the New Mutants' first meeting with Hercules, before issue #40).