Dates
- Cover date
- [July] 1988
- On sale
- July 1988
- Pages
- 68
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #4 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 07148602826085
This edition’s page
Story arc: The Evolutionary War
This is part 4 of 13. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.
- Silver Surfer Annual (1988) #1
- X-Men Annual (1970) #12
- Web of Spider-Man Annual (1985) #4
- The New Mutants Annual (1984) #4
- The Spectacular Spider-Man Annual (1979) #8
- The Avengers Annual (1967) #17
- X-Factor Annual (1986) #3
- The Punisher Annual (1988) #1
- Fantastic Four Annual (1963) #21
- The Amazing Spider-Man Annual (1964) #22
- The West Coast Avengers Annual (1986) #3
- Silver Surfer Epic Collection (2014) #4
- Silver Surfer: Return to the Spaceways Omnibus (2024) #nn
Creators
Stories
- Mind Games · 35 pages
The High Evolutionary captures Magma, in the hope of removing her powers. The New Mutants charge to her rescue, along with Magneto and the other members of the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club. Mirage learns how to make her images become tangible in this story.
- If Wishes Were Horses · 15 pages
Mirage experiments with her new ability to make her images tangible.
- The High Evolutionary Chapter Four: Blood Drawn, Blood Spilt · 6 pages
While Wyndam is at work in Wundagore Mountain, Jessica Drew, the son of Wyndam's associate Jonathan Drew, develops radiation poisoning. Jonathan develops a spider-serum to help her recover, but before he can use it, his wife Merriem is murdered.
Characters
Reprinted in
X-Men: Inferno Prologue (2014), New Mutants Omnibus (2020), Evolutionary War Omnibus (2011), Pet Avengers Classic (2009), New Mutants Epic Collection (2017), X-Men: Inferno Prologue Omnibus (2021)