Dates
- Cover date
- September 1986
- On sale
- May 13, 1986
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #38 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Direct edition
Direct
No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
Source ↗ - Newsstand edition
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 0714860296709
This edition’s page
Creators
pencils: David Rossinks: Randy Emberlin, Gerry Talaocscript: Bill Mantlocolors: Bob Sharenletters: Jim Novak
Stories
- Pestilence! · 22 pages
Namor attacks Atlantis to free Marrina but is repulsed by Attuma's forces. Alpha Flight battles Pestilence who has absorbed the essence of Snowbird's child to power his evil. Things get worse when Pestilence calls the Great Beasts to his aid. Shaman puts on the coronet of enchantment and becomes the new Talisman to defeat the beasts and Pestilence, but their main quarry escapes with the soul of Snowbird's baby still a part of him.
Characters
Stephen StrangeDoctor StrangeNamorSub-MarinerJean-Paul BeaubierNorthstarJeanne-Marie BeaubierAuroraEugene JuddPuckHeather HudsonMichael TwoyoungmenShamanNaryaSnowbirdVindicatorAttumaElizabeth TwoyoungmenTalismanRoger BochsBoxByrrahTundraDoug ThompsonF. R. CrozierPestilenceKariooqTolomaqRanaqKolomaq
Reprinted in
Alpha Flight by Mantlo & Lee Omnibus (2025)