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Issue Details

Issue #29
Published July 1985
Cover Price 0.65 USD
Pages 36
Editing Ann Nocenti (editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

Cover Details - "Sunspot Vs. the Gladiators to the Death!"

Characters Sunspot; Max
Genre superhero
Pencils Bill Sienkiewicz (painted)
Inks Bill Sienkiewicz (painted)
Colors Bill Sienkiewicz (painted)
Reprinted in Nuovi Mutanti, I (Play Press, 1989 series) #22

24 page New Mutants story "Meanwhile, Back at the Mansion . . ."

Characters New Mutants--Professor X; Cannonball; Magik [Illyana Rasputin]; Magma; Sunspot; GUESTS: Dazzler; Lila Cheney; Guido Carosella (1st); S'ym; Lee Forrester; Magneto; VILLAINS: Alexander Flynn; Axe; Max; Ivich
Synopsis Sunspot and Magma are kidnapped; Cannonball and Magik try to find them and seek the aid of Lila Cheney; Dazzler, who has shown up at Lila's looking for an audition, realizes that the missing New Mutants have been captured by Flynn for his underground mutant arena and gains access to their next bout as she used to be one of them; Dazzler's loyalties are tested as she watches her former friends fighting to the death; The arena battle is interrupted by Magneto who seeks the aid of the New Mutants as Xavier has told him the Beyonder has arrived on earth.
Genre superhero
Script Chris Claremont
Pencils Bill Sienkiewicz
Inks Bill Sienkiewicz
Colors Glynis Oliver
Letters Tom Orzechowski; Joe Rosen
Notes Part 1 of 3. Continued from Beauty and the Beast (Marvel, 1984 series) #4. The New Mutants, Dazzler, and Magneto appear next in Secret Wars II (Marvel, 1985 series) #1.
Reprinted in Nuovi Mutanti, I (Play Press, 1989 series) #22