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Issue Details

Issue #45
Published November 1986
Cover Price 0.75 USD; 0.40 GBP; 0.95 CAD
Pages 36
Editing Ann Nocenti (editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

Cover Details

Characters Magik
Genre superhero
Pencils Barry Windsor-Smith
Inks Barry Windsor-Smith
Notes Special 25th-anniversary "frame" cover (as on all Marvel comics published this month).

24 page New Mutants story "We Were Only Foolin'"

Characters Magneto; Cannonball; Cypher; Magik; Magma; Mirage; Sunspot; Warlock; Wolfsbane; Shadowcat; Brightwind; Analie Hogarth; Larry Bodine (introduction; death)
Synopsis One of the New Mutants' friends at Salem Center high school receives a note indicating that some of his classmates know that he is a mutant and will call X-Factor; he commits suicide; Shadowcat gives an impassioned speech about prejudice at his memorial.
Genre superhero
Script Chris Claremont
Pencils Jackson Guice
Inks Kyle Baker
Colors Glynis Oliver
Letters L. Lois Buhalis; Tom Orzechowski
Notes The New Mutants appear here following New Mutants Annual #2. This story takes place during the days when X-Factor is believed to be a group of mutant hunters (X-Factor #1-#25).
Reprinted in X-Men Visionaries: Chris Claremont (Marvel, 1998 series) #[nn] [with a new text introduction written by Chris Claremont]