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Issue: New Mutants 62 Date: Apr-88 Story: To Build a Fire (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Wolfsbane, Magik, Mirage and Brightwind, Sunspot, Warlock Regular Characters: Magneto Guest Stars: Villains: Emma Frost and the Hellions Jetstream, Thunderbird II, Roulette, Catseye, Tarot, Empath, Magma Other Characters: Senator Lucius Antonius Aquilla Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils & Inks: Jon J. Muth Letters: Tom Orzechowski Colors: Glynis Oliver Editor: Ann Nocenti Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Amara trains with the Hellions and is summoned home by her father. Frost sends Empath with her, to make sure her father remains friendly to the Hellfire Club. En route, their plane is hit by lightning, and they crash in the Amazon jungle. They are threatened by the local wildlife on the way to Nova Roma, and their attachment deepens. Issue: New Mutants Annual 4 Date: 1988 Story 1: Mind Games (35 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Mirage, Wolfsbane, Sunspot, Magik, Warlock Regular Characters: Magneto Guest Stars: Glow Worm, Bulk; Magma, Empath, the Hellfire Club: Emma Frost, Sebastian Shaw, Selene Villains: the High Evolutionary, Dr. Stack, soldiers including Purge Other Characters: Senator Lucius Antonius Aquilla Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: June Brigman Inks: Bob McLeod Letters: John Workman Colors: Glynis Oliver Editor: Ann Nocenti, Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: NOTE: this is part of the Evolutionary War. Glow Worm and Bulk are captured and given to the High Evolutionary, who has their mutant powers purged away. The New Mutants receive a letter from Amara. She is in Nova Roma, engaged to someone she has never met, but Empath is still with her. Stack next captures Amara, despite Empath's efforts to save her. He contacts Frost, who calls on Magneto for aid. He reiterates that the New Mutants are grounded and not to user the powers, for their own safety. They immediately port to Amara's rescue. In the ensuing fracas, Dani is thrown into Stack's machine. Bulk reverses its controls and makes Dani's powers stronger. She pulls a monster and demons from Stack's and Purge's minds, and they become real, attacking the New Mutants until Dani summons her spirit lance. The Hellfire Club arrives, angered that their plans for Amara have been foiled, and the New Mutants port away before Magneto catches them. Illyana ports Amara back home. Story 2: If Wishes Were Horses (15 pages) Feature Characters: Mirage and Brightwind, Wolfsbane, Warlock, Cannonball, Magik, Sunspot Regular Characters: Magneto Guest Stars: Villains: Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: June Brigman Inks: Roy Richardson Letters: John E. Workman, Jr. Colors: Glynis Oliver Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Mirage tests her new ability to make solid mirages and make a mate for Brightwind. He tosses Dani in a river and flies off, and conjures up a Porsche to take her home. When a policeman stops her for driving erratically, she makes a driver's license, which makes the car disappear. The officer takes her into custody until Brightwind stops him. He lets Dani go. Magneto returns to the mansion and tells the New Mutants that Amara is safe. Story 3: Blood Drawn, Blood Spilt (6 pages) Feature Characters: Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Villains: Herbert Edgar Wyndham (eventually the High Evolutionary) Other Characters: Jonathan and Merriem Drew, their daughter Jessica; the Masters boy Credits: Writer: Mark Gruenwald Pencils: Ron Lim Inks: Jim Sinclair Letters: Ken Lopez Colors: Gregory Wright Editor: Ralph Macchio Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Jessica falls ill of radiation poisoning, and Jonathan injects her with a special spider extract to save her life. Herbert finds Merriem dead, mauled by some sort of beast-man. Issue: New Mutants 63 Date: May-88 Story: Redemption (24 pages) Feature Characters: Magik Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Kitty Pryde, Lockheed, Colossus Villains: Skunge; the Brood and its clones: Colossus, Wolverine without claws, Nightcrawler, Storm, Cyclops Other Characters: Credits: Writers: Chris Claremont (plot), Louise Simonson (script) Pencils & Inks: Bo Hampton, Joe Rubinstein Letters: Tom Orzechowski Colors: Nel Yomtov Editor: Ann Nocenti Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Illyana has a strange dream: Kitty notices alien armor in Illyana's closet and gets her to tell the story of how she got it: When Warlock arrived (iss. 21), he turned Illyana's hand techno-organic, so she ported away to Limbo. She was attacked by a rebellious demon named Skunge, who touched her and was transformed into circuitry. Illyana, afraid of being likewise transformed, used her Soulsword on her own arm and passed out. She awoke in the mansion, but in an alternate universe where no one knew her, even Colossus. She is unable to use her magic or port, and the X-Men attack her as a villain. She escapes them. Lockheed leads her to a huge, hidden spaceship, where she is attacked by the Brood. She is able to port to Limbo, then ports back to save Lockheed, picking up a gun and armor on the way. The Brood explains that it escaped the destruction of its world with eggs and cloned the X-Men to serve as hosts. The ersatz X-Men overhear, and together they attack and kill it.. Illyana ports them to Limbo, kills the eggs in them, and sends them back to their ship. Issue: New Mutants 64 Date: Jun-88 Story: Instant Replay! (30 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Wolfsbane, Magik, Mirage, Sunspot, Warlock, Cypher (as a hologram, as a mirage, and as a corpse) Regular Characters: Magneto Guest Stars: Wolverine, Rogue, Colossus, Forge (on tape) Villains: Dr. Animus the Ani-mator, a Smile-Face soldier (as holograms) Other Characters: Phillip and Sheila Ramsey; Mr. Green the funeral director Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Bret Blevins Inks: Terry Austin Letters: Tom Orzechowski Colors: Glynis Oliver Editor: Ann Nocenti Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Rahne replays Doug's death in the Danger Room and finds 17 ways to save his life. Roberto makes her stop. Illyana watches the TV news coverage of her brother's death and throws a fit. Sam is unable to make her stop, and she ports away. Warlock wants Doug to come back so badly that it triggers Dani's power to create a mirage of him. Magneto has of necessity lied to Doug's parents, saying he was shot in a hunting accident. The New Mutants attend his viewing, and Rahne runs out, crying, and Warlock is upset over the idea of burial, but Roberto and Sam calm them down, reminding them of heaven and of the resurrection. Warlock returns to the funeral parlor that night and reanimates Doug's body. He takes the body to see Mrs. Ramsey and then Rahne, scaring them both, and the New Mutants make him return it to the funeral home. They attend the funeral the next day. Illyana decides to avenge her brother's death on Forge. Issue: New Mutants 65 Date: Jul-88 Story: Demons! (29 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Wolfsbane, Magik, Mirage, Sunspot, Warlock Regular Characters: Magneto Guest Stars: Kitty Pryde and Lockheed; Colossus (on tape); Forge Villains: Limbo demons including S'ym; Freedom Force: Destiny, Blob, Avalanche, Pyro, Stonewall, the Crimson Commando, Spiral, Super Sabre, Mystique Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Bret Blevins Inks: Terry Austin Letters: Tom Orzechowski Colors: Glynis Oliver Editor: Ann Nocenti Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Magneto refuses Illyana's demand to kill Forge and reiterates that the New Mutants are grounded for their own protection. Illyana ports to Scotland to see Kitty, but she is not interested in vengeance, either. The New Mutants agree to help her, and she takes her Soulsword to fight Forge's magic, which allows S'ym's revolt to spread. The New Mutants attacks Forge and are defeated by Freedom Force. Destiny reveals that Illyana's lust for revenge will result in Limbo demons invading this world, but she ignores the warning and attacks Forge. Issue: New Mutants 66 Date: Aug-88 Story: Sorcerer's Duel! (30 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Wolfsbane, Magik, Mirage, Sunspot, Warlock Regular Characters: Magneto Guest Stars: Forge, Lila Cheney (on a poster) Villains: Limbo demons; Spyder and Gosamyr Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Bret Blevins Inks: Terry Austin Letters: Ken Bruzenak Colors: Glynis Oliver Editor: Ann Nocenti, Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Illyana as Darkchilde continues her attack on Forge, and since his magic is superior on earth, she takes him to Limbo. She restrains the New Mutants with demonic vines, nearly choking them to death. Forge, guilty over his past misuse of his power, lowers his defenses, allowing Illyana to disrupt his magic. She is about to kill him when Dani pulls forth her greatest fear: herself as ultimate evil. Illyana decides not to kill, frees Forge and the New Mutants, and with some difficulty returns to her normal state. Magneto is wearing his villain costume again. Spyder tells Gosamyr that he has bought Lila as a slave and plans to take possession of her. Issue: New Mutants 67 Date: Sep-88 Story: Promise (30 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Wolfsbane, Magik, Mirage, Sunspot, Warlock Regular Characters: Magneto Guest Stars: Lila Cheney and her band Villains: Spyder and slaves including Gosamyr Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils & Inks: Bret Blevins Letters: Ken Bruzenak Colors: Glynis Oliver Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Magneto gives Sam permission to go to Lila's concert, but he is forbidden to use his powers in public. Spyder dispatches his slave accountants to go to earth and impound Lila as his property. Gosamyr sneaks aboard their ship to help save her. The monster accountants attack Lila, but she just works it into the concert, assuring Sam that if things get too bad, she will teleport them all away. The other New Mutants, listening on the radio, realize that there is trouble. About to tell Magneto, they overhear him discussing power neutralizers with Emma Frost and decide they can't trust him. Illyana ports them to the concert in time to see Lila neutralized and captured. Gosamyr asks the New Mutants for help against Spyder; he runs a crooked textile industry and owns her family. Issue: New Mutants 68 Date: Oct-88 Story: Illusion! (30 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Wolfsbane, Magik, Mirage, Sunspot, Warlock Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Lila Cheney Villains: Spyder and slaves including Gosamyr, Admiral Dupen'th Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils & Inks: Bret Blevins Letters: Ken Bruzenak Colors: Glynis Oliver Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: In Limbo, Illyana tries and fails to restore her scrying mirror. But she learns enough so she can port Gosamyr's stolen space yacht into nearby space. Gosamyr provides the team with new clothes, making Rahne look like Lila. This fails to impress Sam, however, and we learn that Gosamyr has the power to intensify emotions. She uses this to make Roberto and Sam fall for her, and she tricks Dani into creating Rahne's dearest wish: a Sam who is in love in her, but she refuses him because he is supposed to be Lila's boyfriend. Rahne realizes it is a mirage and is angry at Dani; Dani realizes Gosamyr made her do it and is angry at her. An alien spacecraft detains them, and when Dani accidentally offers a bribe to one of its officers, the admiral orders their destruction. Issue: New Mutants 69 Date: Nov-88 Story: Bad Company (30 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Wolfsbane, Magik, Mirage, Sunspot, Warlock Regular Characters: Magneto Guest Stars: Lila Cheney, Emma Frost Villains: Spyder and slaves including Gosamyr, Chard, the Grissom Gang including Sparks, Admiral Dupen'th, Limbo demons Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Bret Blevins Inks: Al Williamson Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Glynis Oliver Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Spyder orders Dupen'th to allow the New Mutants to land (see last iss.). Gosamyr's power is making them act strangely. Dani, with a headache, wanders through the alien ship, fighting some of them. Illyana ports the rest to her rescue, via a now very rebellious Limbo. Magneto notices that his students have run off again. He resolves to find them and protect them by any means, even violent ones. Warlock realize that Gosamyr is a villain, and when Illyana uses her sword on her, she turns temporarily into a monster, and Illyana is stuck as the Darkchilde. The New Mutants continue to Spyder's lair and are captured by him. Issue: New Mutants 70 Date: Dec-88 Story: Self-Fulfilling Prophesy (30 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Wolfsbane, Magik, Mirage, Sunspot, Warlock Regular Characters: Magneto Guest Stars: Lila Cheney; the Hellfire Club: Sebastian Shaw, Emma Frost, Selene Villains: Spyder and slaves including Gosamyr and her family; Limbo demons including S'ym Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Terry Shoemaker Inks: Al Milgrom Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Glynis Oliver Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Spyder has the New Mutants in a cage that counters each of their powers. Magneto meets with the Hellfire Club to discuss weird happenings in New York (prologue to the Inferno crossover). Gosamyr helps the New Mutants escape, and they promise to free her family, whom Spyder has forced into a cocoon state so they will produce precious silk. They emerge from that state as monsters with enough power to destroy a world, and attack everyone. Rahne and Sam rescue Lila, and she transports the monsters into the local sun, killing them and presumably herself. Roberto still sides with Gosamyr, since her and her family's villainy was forced on them. Illyana ports the team to Limbo, which is now under S'ym's control. Issue: New Mutants 71 Date: Jan-89 Story: Limbo (30 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Wolfsbane, Magik, Mirage, Sunspot, Warlock, Gosamyr Regular Characters: Magneto Guest Stars: the Hellfire Club: Emma Frost, Sebastian Shaw, Selene; Leech, Arthur Maddicks Villains: Limbo demons including S'ym, N'astirh, Crotus Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Bret Blevins Inks: Al Williamson Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Glynis Oliver Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: NOTE: This is part of the Inferno crossover. The New Mutants battle demons in Limbo. S'ym captures Illyana and takes her Soulsword, but she is able to port to Belasco's throne room. She describes her early life in Limbo, how she killed her versions of the X-Men in order to survive. She ports again, and they move backward in time to see S'ym beating her as a child, and N'astirh beating him for doing so. Porting again, they run into a past version of N'astirh, who explains that he was one of Limbo's demons who mastered Belasco's spells and offers to help Illyana defeat S'ym if she embraces her Darkchilde nature and perhaps becomes his bride. She takes the bargain. Illyana reclaims her Soulsword and opens a portal to earth, through which the New Mutants and Limbo demons begin raining down on Times Square. N'astirh tricked Illyana to get her to open the portal. Issue: New Mutants 72 Date: Feb-89 Story: Demon Reign (31 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Wolfsbane, Magik, Mirage, Sunspot, Warlock, Gosamyr Regular Characters: Guest Stars: the X-Terminators: Boom Boom (Tabitha Smith), Rusty (Russell Collins), Skids (Sally Blevins), Wiz Kid (Takeshi "Taki" Matsuya), Rictor (Julio Esteban Richter), Leech, Arthur "Artie" Maddicks Villains: Limbo demons including S'ym, N'astirh Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Bret Blevins Inks: Al Williamson Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Glynis Oliver Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: NOTE: This is part of the Inferno crossover. N'astirh and S'ym battle for supremacy over Limbo and possession of Illyana as the Darkchilde. The New Mutants disrupt N'astirh's giant pentagram made of babies that is hovering over Times Square, taking them to a church for safety. Meanwhile Illyana is tormented by a demonic diner, pet shop, and beauty parlor. N'astirh revives, now techno-organic and more powerful than ever. Illyana finally accepts her full power and, covered with silver armor, attacks N'astirh with her Soulsword. Issue: New Mutants 73 Date: Mar-89 Story: The Gift (48 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Wolfsbane, Magik, Mirage, Sunspot, Warlock, Gosamyr Regular Characters: Magneto Guest Stars: Colossus; the X-Terminators: Boom Boom, Rusty, Skids, Taki, Rictor, Leech, Arthur Maddicks; the Hellfire Club: Sebastian Shaw, Emma Frost, Selene Villains: Limbo demons including N'astirh, S'ym Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Bret Blevins Inks: Al Williamson, Mike Manley Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Glynis Oliver Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: NOTE: This is part of the Inferno crossover. Illyana fights S'ym while N'astirh calls a truce with Magneto and the Hellfire Club. Sam, Rahne, Roberto, Rictor, Boom Boom, and Colossus separate Illyana from S'ym and she ports them to Limbo except for Colossus, who vows to kill every Limbo demon to get his sister back. Illyana decides to rule Limbo as Darkchilde in order to save the earth, but Rahne leads the others through stepping disks to try to go into the past and prevent Illyana from ever becoming the Darkchilde. They find her as a small child and port back to the present, where the Darkchilde chooses to negate her own existence. She sends her friends to earth, sucks all the demons back to Limbo in a blinding flash of light, and only the young, innocent Illyana survives. Issue: New Mutants 74 Date: Apr-89 Story: The Right Stuff (30 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Wolfsbane, Illyana Rasputin, Mirage, Sunspot, Warlock, Gosamyr Regular Characters: Magneto Guest Stars: the X-Terminators: Boom Boom, Rusty, Skids, Taki, Rictor, Leech, Arthur Maddicks; Ship; the Hellfire Club: Sebastian Shaw, Emma Frost, Selene; Lila Cheney (in flashback); Roger Rabbit (as a template for Warlock) Villains: Spyder (in flashback) Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Bret Blevins Inks: Bob Wiacek Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Gregory Wright Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: The New Mutants and the X-Terminators work together to mop up after Inferno and care for the kidnapped mutant babies (see Inferno). They discuss Lila's probable death (iss. 70). Shaw and Magneto fight in the mens' room of the Hellfire Club: the one would control the world through economics, the other would make the world safe for mutants through force. Rusty takes everyone back to X-Factor's Ship. It allows the mutants to enter, plus Illyana and Warlock, but decides that Gosamyr is too dangerous to live. In her current larval state, she has the power to make men love and fight over her; later she will be transformed into a planet-destroying monster. It sends her off to a planet where she can learn to control herself. Magneto and Emma plan to overthrow Shaw, and the New Mutants return to the mansion. Issue: New Mutants 75 Date: May-89 Story: King of the Hill! (31 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Wolfsbane, Illyana Rasputin, Mirage, Sunspot, Warlock Regular Characters: Magneto Guest Stars: the Hellfire Club: Sebastian Shaw, Emma Frost, Selene Villains: Sabretooth Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: John Byrne Inks: Bob McLeod Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Glynis Oliver Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: The New Mutants arrive in Westchester to find the mansion destroyed (see Uncanny X-Men 243, X-Factor 39) and Sabretooth nearly dead. The Hellfire Club arrives, battles, and subdues the New Mutants. Magneto learns that Illyana is now a child and the New Mutants are quitting the school. Shaw immediately challenges his position as White King, and they battle. Magneto decides that his attempt to combine the various mutant groups against humanity has failed. He overloads Shaw's mutant ability to absorb kinetic energy and subdues him. Magneto, Emma, and Selene vote him out as Black King. Magneto frees the New Mutants, warning them that the real world is not black and white, and that they will ultimately learn that his way, the way of force, is best. Issue: New Mutants 76 Date: Jun-89 Story: Splash! (30 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Wolfsbane, Illyana Rasputin, Mirage and Brightwind, Sunspot, Warlock Regular Characters: Guest Stars: the X-Terminators: Boom Boom, Rusty, Skids, Taki, Rictor, Leech, Arthur Maddicks; Ship; Namor the Sub-Mariner; X-Factor: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman Villains: Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Rich Buckler Finisher: Tom Palmer Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Glynis Oliver Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Having left Xavier's school, the New Mutants plan to go their separate ways, but the police run them off. They decide to go to X-Factor's ship. The X-Terminators are meanwhile scuba-diving and find an unusual artifact. It turns out to be a horn from Atlantis (from Fantastic Four 4!), and when Boom Boom blows it, a giant squid attacks Ship, pulling it underwater. The New Mutants and Namor arrive and agree to help retrieve Ship. They use their powers and manage only to annoy the squid, who captures them inside Warlock in the form of a submarine. Dani makes a solid mirage of dynamite, which Sam, Rusty, and Skids use to blow the squid's brains out. Ship is restored just as X-Factor arrives, and they agree to let the New Mutants stay on.
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