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Issue Details

Issue #58
Published December 1987
Cover Price .75
Pages 36
Editing Ann Nocenti (editor); Tom DeFalco (editor-in-chief)
Notes This issue contains an insert, stapled between the cover and the inside pages, containing an advertisement for the upcoming Excalibur Special Edition, a checklist for the Fall of the Mutants issues, and a "Mutant Registration Form".

Cover Details

Characters Bird Boy, Mirage, Cypher, Brightwind, Cannonball, Magik, Wolfsbane.
Genre superhero
Pencils Bret Blevins
Inks Terry Austin
Notes This issue contains an insert, stapled between the cover and the inside pages, containing an advertisement for the upcoming Excalibur Special Edition, a checklist for the Fall of the Mutants issues, and a "Mutant Registration Form".

23 page New Mutants story "A Bird in the Hand"

Characters Cannonball, Cypher, Magik, Mirage, Wolfsbane; SC: Bird Brain, Brightwind.
Synopsis The New Mutants learn that Bird Brain comes from the North Atlantic; he dons a New Mutants uniform, then heads back to the North Atlantic, to save his friends from death during their "time of testing"; the New Mutants follow.
Genre superhero
Script Louise Simonson
Pencils Bret Blevins and Off the Wall Studios
Inks Terry Austin
Colors Glynis Oliver
Letters Ken Lopez