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Issue Details

Issue #50
Published April 1987
Cover Price 1.25
Pages 52
Editing Ann Nocenti (editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

Cover Details

Characters Magik, S'ym, Limbo demons.
Genre superhero
Pencils Rick Leonardi
Inks Dan Green

40 page New Mutants story "Father's Day!"

Characters Professor X, Cannonball, Cypher, Karma, Magik, Magma, Mirage, Sunspot, Warlock, Wolfsbane; V: Magus, S'ym, future versions of Magma and Sunspot; GS: Starjammers (Binary, Ch'od, Corsair, Cr'reee, Hepzibah, Raza, Sikorsky, Waldo), Lilandra.
Synopsis S'ym, now infected with the transmode virus, challenges Magik; Magik flees to Professor Xavier and updates him on recent events; they rescue the other New Mutants; Cypher figures out a way to defeat Magus; Warlock "adopts" Professor X as his father.
Genre superhero
Script Chris Claremont
Pencils Jackson Guice
Inks John Beatty
Colors Glynis Oliver
Letters Tom Orzechowski and L. Lois Buhalis
Notes Double-sized issue. Professor X appears here following Uncanny X-Men #203.