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Issue: New Mutants 11 Date: Jan-84 Story: Magma (23 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Sunspot, Psyche, Wolfsbane, Magma Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Villains: Senator Marcus Domitius Gallio, his wife Selene the black priestess; Roman legionnaires and servants; Castro Other Characters: Senator Lucius Antonius Aquilla; Nina Da Costa Credits: Writer: Chris Claremont Pencils: Sal Buscema Finisher: Tom Mandrake Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Glynis Wein Editor: Louise Jones Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter Synopsis: Amara, with the mutant ability to control lava, battles Selene, with the mutant ability to make inanimate things come to life. Selene regenerates herself by killing her followers, Amara attacks her with a lava fountain, but Selene drains her life-force. Roberto attacks Castro and frees his mother from prison. She explains that "Amazons" are girls from Nova Roma who have been sent into the jungle to save them from Selene. Amara, having been regenerated by the earth attacks Gallio's villa along with the mutants, Aquilla's troops, and the Amazons. Senator Aquilla duels and kills Gallio, and Amara explains that Selene is a psychic vampire who plans to make Dani one, too. Amara, Sam, Roberto, and Rahne attack Selene, and Roberto buries her in a pit of lava. Issue: New Mutants 12 Date: Feb-84 Story: Sunstroke (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Sunspot, Psyche, Wolfsbane, Magma Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Villains: Emmanuel Da Costa, Sebastian Shaw Other Characters: Senator Lucius Antonius Aquilla; Nina Da Costa, Brazilian peasants including Vadinio, Flor Credits: Writer: Chris Claremont Pencils: Sal Buscema Finisher: Tom Mandrake Letters: Tom Orzechowski Colors: George Roussos Editor: Louise Jones Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter Synopsis: In Rio, Roberto confronts his father, warning him not to try to exploit the land around Nova Roma. Emmanuel calls Shaw and joins the Hellfire Club. On Ipanema beach, Amara and Dani are accosted by some rude me, and Amara makes a little volcano. She is separated from Dani and wanders the city, causing mayhem. Rahne goes into a Catholic church to pray, concerned about the state of her soul and unsure if her teammates really like her or just her abilities. Amara, feverish with sunstroke, hallucinates and imagines becoming an evil mutant and destroying the city. The mutants find her and cool her off before she makes Rio harbor into a volcano, and she is convinced that she needs to go to Xavier's school to learn to control her power. Issue: New Mutants 13 Date: Mar-84 Story: School Daysze (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Sunspot, Psyche, Wolfsbane, Magma Regular Characters: Prof. Xavier, Empress Lilandra; Stevie Hunter Guest Stars: Kitty Pryde, Douglas "Doug" Ramsey (eventually Cypher) Villains: Henry Peter Gyrich; Sebastian Shaw; Sentinels Other Characters: Dr. Valerie Cooper Credits: Writer: Chris Claremont Pencils: Sal Buscema Finisher: Tom Mandrake Letters: Tom Orzechowski Colors: Glynis Wein Editor: Louise Jones Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter Synopsis: Back in Westchester, Magma officially joins the New Mutants. She has no control over her power yet and causes an earthquake. Gyrich, Shaw, and Cooper are working on Project Wideawake to make Sentinels. Kitty and Doug accidentally hack into the project's computer system and a Sentinel goes out of control. Gyrich makes it self-destruct and vows to track down the hackers. Kitty is late for a training session, and Xavier lectures her on the responsibilities of being an X-Man. The mutants sit in school at computer terminals, then go to Stevie's dance class, and Amara attends her first Danger Room session. Xavier tells her to demonstrate her power while he monitors her mind, but she refuses. She decides she doesn't fit in with the team, but Xavier convinces her to stay. Issue: New Mutants 14 Date: Apr-84 Story: Do You Believe in - Magik? (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Sunspot, Psyche, Wolfsbane, Magma, Magik Regular Characters: Prof. Xavier; Stevie Hunter Guest Stars: Doug Ramsey; X-Men Rogue, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Kitty Pryde, Storm, Wolverine Villains: S'ym Other Characters: local kids including Diana, Tony Credits: Writer: Chris Claremont Pencils: Sal Buscema Finisher: Tom Mandrake Letters: Tom Orzechowski Colors: Glynis Wein Editor: Louise Jones Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter Synopsis: Illyana watches the New Mutants frolic in a snowstorm and is observed by S'ym. The mutants plans a surprise party for Xavier and gets Stevie to drive them to the mall. S'ym attacks Xavier, and when the mutants return to the mansion, they suspect something strange. Illyana investigates and is attacked. She freezes, but is able to teleport the mutants (and Stevie's Saab) into Limbo and then into the mansion. The mutants attack S'ym while Stevie carries Illyana away. S'ym defeats the team and catches Illyana, but she defeats him with magic and her Soulsword. She lets him live but forces him to renounce Belasco and serve her. She erases Stevie's memories of her sorcery. The X-Men return to the mansion, the party goes on, and Xavier reveals that he can walk and waltzes with Illyana. Doug tells Kitty that he has been accepted into the Massachusetts Academy, which he doesn't know is run by the Hellfire Club. Issue: New Mutants 15 Date: May-84 Story: Scaredy Cat! (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Sunspot, Psyche, Wolfsbane, Magma, Magik Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Kitty Pryde, Doug Ramsey; Cloak and Dagger (in flashback); Garfield (as a doll) Villains: Emma Frost (White Queen of the Hellfire Club) Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Chris Claremont Pencils: Sal Buscema Finisher: Tom Mandrake Letters: Tom Orzechowski Colors: Glynis Wein Editor: Louise Jones Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter Synopsis: Illyana projects her astral form to the Massachusetts Academy and finds Kitty a captive of Frost. Frost reveals that Kitty and Doug love each other and offers Kitty membership in the Hellfire Club, but she refuses. Frost realizes Illyana is watching and attacks her, and when her body screams back in Westchester, the New Mutants come to her aid only to find demons in her room, pouring out of her body. They defeat the demons, then question Illyana, who reveals that she is a sorceress and then explains Kitty's plight. Since the X-Men, Fantastic Four, and Avengers are away at the Secret Wars, the mutants are on their own and buy bus tickets to Massachusetts. En route, Sam frets about fighting the Hellfire Club and reassures Rahne that she is not a spawn of the devil. Magma burns a tunnel into the Academy, but Frost is expecting them. Issue: New Mutants 16 Date: Jun-84 Story: Away Game! (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Sunspot, Psyche, Wolfsbane, Magma, Magik Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Kitty Pryde Villains: Emma Frost; The Hellions: Haroun ibn Sallah al-Rashid (eventually corrected to al-Rahman) (Jetstream), James Proudstar (Thunderbird II), Jennifer Stavros (Roulette), Sharon Smith (Catseye), Marie-Ange Colbert (Tarot), Manuel Alfonso Rodrigo de la Rocha (Empath); Hellfire Club goons including Gilbert Other Characters: Massachusetts Academy students including Russo Credits: Writer: Chris Claremont Pencils: Sal Buscema Inks: Mandrake, Kim DeMulder Letters: Tom Orzechowski Colors: Ken Feduniewicz Editor: Louise Jones, Ann Nocenti Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter Synopsis: The New Mutants are attacked by Hellfire Club goons, but Magma causes an earthquake and Illyana teleports them away to a storeroom. They capture and interrogate two goons, Dani using her power to manifest their greatest fear and then questioning the morality of doing so. Amara and Sam knock out the electricity. Roberto and Rahne are downed by Thunderbird and Roulette; Illyana and Dani are attacked by Catseye and Tarot. Sam and Amara are attacked by Empath and Jetstream and defeat them. Then Frost takes things into her own hands. She puts Doug, Sam, Amara, and Dani under her mental control but is unable to do so to Illyana, who teleports away with Dani. Issue: New Mutants 17 Date: Jul-84 Story: Getaway! (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Sunspot, Psyche, Wolfsbane, Magma, Magik Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Kitty Pryde Villains: Emma Frost; Sebastian Shaw; The Hellions: Jetstream, Thunderbird II, Roulette, Catseye, Tarot, Empath Other Characters: Limbo demons including S'ym Credits: Writer: Chris Claremont Pencils: Sal Buscema Inks: Kim DeMulder Letters: Tom Orzechowski Colors: Glynis Wein Editor: Ann Nocenti Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter Synopsis: Frost holds class with the Hellions; Roberto, Amara, Rahne, Kitty, and Sam are prisoners in the complex; while Illyana and Dani recuperate in Limbo and then return to the Academy, only to find that it is over a year later and the New Mutants have joined the Hellions. Illyana's stepping disk accidentally moved them through time, so she summons another and moves them back, to a week after the fight lass issue. The Hellions are alerted and challenge the New Mutants to a duel in the Combat Room; they join the Hellions or go free based on its outcome. Sam defeats Jetstream, but Frost and Shaw arrive and renege on the deal. The New Mutants attack, during which Shaw reveals that Roberto's father is a member of the Hellfire Club. Kitty slips away unnoticed, disrupts the room's electronics, and Illyana transports them back to Westchester, where Dani is accosted by the Demon Bear that killed her parents. Issue: New Mutants 18 Date: Aug-84 Story: Death-Hunt (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Sunspot, Psyche, Wolfsbane, Magma, Magik; Warlock Regular Characters: Prof. Xavier (in flash-forward); Westchester County Police Officer Tom Corsi, Mid-County Medical Center nurse Sharon Friedlander Guest Stars: Lockheed; Rachel Summers (eventually Phoenix II) Villains: the Demon Bear; Warlock's father Magus Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Chris Claremont Pencils & Inks: Bill Sienkiewicz Letters: Tom Orzechowski Colors: Glynis Wein Editor: Ann Nocenti Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter Synopsis: NOTE: this is part 1 of the Demon Bear Saga. Dani is being haunted in her dreams by the bear that killed her parents. Rachel, a visitor from the future, knocks at the door of the mansion looking for Xavier, but he is away in Massachusetts. Sam, Roberto, and Amara defeat robots in the Danger Room, and Dani later runs a sequence of bear hunts to hone her skills. In space, Warlock flees his father, who tries to kill him. Dani goes out at night and summons up the Demon Bear. She brings out its greatest fear, which is herself, and believes she has killed it, but when she turns her back, it fells her. The New Mutants find her, bloody, in the woods. Issue: New Mutants 19 Date: Sep-84 Story: Siege (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Sunspot, Psyche, Wolfsbane, Magma, Magik; Warlock Regular Characters: Tom Corsi, Sharon Friedlander Guest Stars: Empress Lilandra; the Starjammers: Corsair (Maj. Christopher Summers), Hepzibah, Ch'od, Binary (Carol Danvers), Waldo Villains: the Demon Bear; Magus Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Chris Claremont Pencils & Inks: Bill Sienkiewicz Letters: Tom Orzechowski Colors: Glynis Wein Editor: Ann Nocenti Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter Synopsis: NOTE: this is part 2 of the Demon Bear Saga. Dani is rushed to the hospital and is in surgery for hours. Sam realizes that the bear that mauled her is spiritual in nature. Rahne wears Dani's belt and her transitional half-wolf form is shown to be more savage than before. Through her rapport with Dani she learns that the bear believes Dani can destroy it. In space, the Starjammers see Warlock chase Magus toward earth but are unable to intervene. Corsi almost shoots Rahne in her half-wolf form and tries to get a date with Friedlander. The Bear attacks, and he shoots, wounding it, but it carries him off with Friedlander. Illyana casts a ward around the surgery to protect Dani. The Bear attacks, but Roberto and Illyana beat it back, Illyana now manifesting portions of armor plating whenever she is attacked. The Bear tears down the power lines and then attacks Illyana's wards. The team battles it, so it teleports them all to its home turf, a world that looks like the pre-Columbian American Southwest. Issue: New Mutants 20 Date: Oct-84 Story: Badlands (23 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Sunspot, Psyche, Wolfsbane, Magma, Magik Regular Characters: Prof. Xavier; Tom Corsi; Sharon Friedlander Guest Stars: Storm, Healer of the Morlocks Villains: the Demon Bear Other Characters: Dani's parents William and Peg Lonestar Credits: Writer: Chris Claremont Pencils & Inks: Bill Sienkiewicz Letters: Tom Orzechowski Colors: Glynis Wein Editor: Ann Nocenti Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter Synopsis: NOTE: this is part 3 of the Demon Bear Saga. While Dani's surgery continues, protected by Illyana's wards, the New Mutants battle the Bear in its magical homeland. It transforms Corsi and Friedlander into demons, and wherever its shadow falls, day turns to absolute night. Roberto's power is soon sapped, Amara is transformed into a demon, and Illyana transforms her back by stabbing her with her Soulsword, which Sam mistakes for an attack. Rahne connects with Dani's mind again and learns that the Bear can be killed by the Soulsword. Illyana splits the Bear down the middle, and its halves are transformed into Dani's parents. All are transported back to Westchester, but although Corsi and Friedlander are no longer demons, they are still Red Indians. Dani's doctor announces that although she will live, she is paralyzed. Xavier has Storm summon Healer to heal Dani, but her recuperation will still be long. He refers the outstanding mystical problems to Dr. Strange and congratulates the team on a job well-done. Issue: New Mutants 21 Date: Nov-84 Story: Slumber Party! (35 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Sunspot, Psyche, Wolfsbane, Magma, Magik; Warlock; Doug Ramsey Regular Characters: Prof. Xavier; Magneto Guest Stars: Lockheed; Tom Selleck, John Travolta, Gordon Sumner, Michael Jackson (on video); Felix the Cat (as a doll) Villains: Other Characters: local girls including Marcie, Weezie, Margo, Rona, Jenny, Laurie, Manoli, Diana, Sheila, Ellen Credits: Writer: Chris Claremont Pencils & Inks: Bill Sienkiewicz Letters: Tom Orzechowski, L. Lois Buhalis Colors: Glynis Wein Editor: Ann Nocenti Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter Synopsis: NOTE: this is part 4 of the Demon Bear Saga. To celebrate Dani's release from the hospital, the girls throw a slumber party in the attic. This is the first time local kids have ever been allowed into Xavier's school. The girls decide to give Rahne a make-over. When Sam and Roberto return from a ball game, they are told "no boys allowed." Sam doesn't recognize the beautified Rahne, so she hits him. Warlock speeds toward earth, accidentally bashing Magneto's asteroid base en route. He crashes like a meteor into a lake on the estate, and Sam and Roberto retrieve him, not knowing he is sentient. He awakes in the lab and plugs into the electrical system, shorting it out. He infects a flower with a techno-organic virus so he can consume its life energy, and mistakes a refrigerator for one of his own. Lockheed and Illyana attack him ineffectively, Warlock transforming and consuming one of Illyana's demons and then starting the same on her, but she teleports away. Amara, Sam, and Roberto attack Warlock, he consumes a tree and returns to the mansion, where Dani confronts him with his greatest fear: his father. She and Sam decide to try to communicate with him, so Sam flies off, wakes Doug, informs him that they are all mutants and his help is needed. Doug explains life on earth to Warlock and learns that his kind duel their fathers to the death to prove themselves. Rahne gives Warlock some of her life-force, enabling him to form a plug and feed off the Danger Room's Shi'ar power source. Xavier returns to find the mansion in shambles and is introduced to Warlock as a candidate to join the school. He accepts him. NOTE: 3 pages of Xavier's journal follow: Sam, Illyana, and Roberto. Issue: New Mutants Annual 1 Date: 1984 Story: The Cosmic Cannonball Caper (35 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Sunspot, Psyche, Wolfsbane, Magma, Magik, Warlock, Doug Ramsey Regular Characters: Prof. Xavier; Stevie Hunter Guest Stars: Lila Cheney and her band: Ben Locklin, Conal Dur·n, Phil Hovannes; her manager Roddy; her fence Charasulla. Villains: alien UrakanĚn soldiers Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Chris Claremont Pencils: Bob McLeod Inks: Bob McLeod, Palmer Letters: Bob McLeod Colors: Sharen Editor: Ann Nocenti Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter Synopsis: Xavier tests Sam's thrust in the Danger Room, then has Dani scare him to test his concentration. Stevie gives Dani physical therapy and some emotional therapy, as well. Roberto gets them all tickets to Lila's concert, and they save her from falling speakers. They realize it was attempted murder by an alien, find it, and ineffectively fight it in the catwalks while Lila keeps singing. She uses a guitar riff to burst the alien's armor, also hurting Warlock, then closes her act by teleporting away with the band and Sam. Warlock reactivates her stargate so the rest can follow, but they wind up in empty space, so Warlock turns himself into a spacecraft. Lila entertains Sam in her own private Dyson sphere, dresses him in leather, and plans with Carasulla to steal and auction off the earth, while Hovannes plans to double-cross her. The New Mutants reach and explore the sphere, are caught in the UrakanĚn attack, and Rahne, Dani, and Warlock are captured with Lila and Sam. Charasulla kills Hovannes, and Amara, Illyana, Doug (!), and Roberto attack and free them. They set off a booby-trap that will disintegrate the earth, but Doug reads the instructions and turns it off. Lila promises never to try to steal earth again and teleports them all to her flat in London. Dani calls Xavier to pick them up while Lila gives Sam a farewell kiss.
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