Beauty and the Beast #3

Dates

Cover date

April 1985

Pages

36

Editions and covers (3)

Copies of #3 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

• Direct edition75¢ cover

  Direct

  No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.

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• Newsstand edition75¢ cover

  Newsstand

  A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

  Barcode 0714860252404 · shared with another edition

  This edition’s page
• Canadian price edition1.00 CAD cover

  Canadian

  Printed cover price 1.00 CAD.

  Barcode 0714860252404 · shared with another edition

  This edition’s page

Creators

Stories

• Showtime · 23 pages

  Beast and Dazzler begin to spend a little more time together, even though Hank strongly disapproves of her fighting in the arena. Beast once again tries and talk her out of participating but she refuses. Beast investigates a lab in the complex and discovers that Flynn and Longride have been giving Dazzler a potion that makes her powers go out of control. He is caught and injected with a potion himself. In the arena, Dazzler finds herself facing a feral Beast and they wage a brutal battle. The pair snap out of it but the audience still wants blood. Flynn accommodates them by killing Longride.

Publisher’s description

It's show time and the stakes are terrifying! Despite Beast's disapproval, Dazzler continues her new gig at a mutant gladiatorial arena. But just as Hank discovers the dangerous serum that is spiking Dazzler's powers out of control, he too is injected – and turns entirely feral!

Characters

Reprinted in

Essential Defenders (2005), Essential Dazzler (2007), X-Men: Beauty & the Beast (2012), Defenders Epic Collection (2016), Marvel Masterworks: Dazzler (2020), Dazzler Omnibus (2024)