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Alpha Flight #57 (1988) · The Collector

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Alpha Flight (1983)
#57

Marvel#57

Alpha Flight

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Alpha Flight #57

Life

Publisher: Marvel
Cover date: April 1988
Cover price: $1.00
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Credits

Writer: Bill Mantlo
Penciller: Jim Lee
Inker: Tony DeZuniga
Colorist: Bob Sharen

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Grand Comics Database issue 44332

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Alpha Flight lands their Box spaceship on a dead planet so that Jeffries can add more mass to the ship in order to allow them to get home. Their arrival sparks a crystalline form of life to develop which tries to trap the ship but Purple Girl is able to get the new life form to let them go.

Letterer

Janice Chiang

Covers

Jim Lee, Terry Austin

Editor

Carl Potts

Assistant editor

Marc McLaurin

Editor in chief

Tom DeFalco

Characters

Bedlam· Cameo
Box
Dreamqueen· Cameo
Gary Cody· Cameo
Goblyn
Goblyn Dean
Heather Hudson
James MacDonald Hudson· Cameo
Kara Killgrave
Laura Dean
Madison Jeffries
Manikin
Olisa Kabaki
Purple Girl
Sasquatch]
Tundra· Cameo
Vindicator
Walter Langkowski
Whitman Knapp

Teams: Alpha Flight, Beta Flight

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