The New Mutants #72

Dates

Cover date

February 1989

On sale

October 13, 1988

Pages

36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #72 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.

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• Newsstand edition

  Newsstand

  A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

  Barcode 07148602207702

  This edition’s page

Story arc: Inferno

This is part 16 of 30. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.

1. X-Terminators (1988) #1
2. X-Terminators (1988) #2
3. Power Pack (1984) #42
4. The Avengers (1963) #298
5. X-Terminators (1988) #3
6. The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #311
7. The New Mutants (1983) #71
8. The Avengers (1963) #299
9. The Uncanny X-Men (1981) #240
10. X-Factor (1986) #36
11. Fantastic Four (1961) #322
12. Power Pack (1984) #43
13. The Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) #146
14. X-Terminators (1988) #4
15. The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #312
16. The New Mutants (1983) #72
17. The Uncanny X-Men (1981) #241
18. The Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) #147
19. X-Factor (1986) #37
20. Fantastic Four (1961) #323
21. The Avengers (1963) #300
22. The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #313
23. Power Pack (1984) #44
24. The New Mutants (1983) #73
25. X-Factor (1986) #38
26. The Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) #148
27. The Uncanny X-Men (1981) #242
28. The Uncanny X-Men (1981) #243
29. X-Factor (1986) #39
30. Daredevil #265

Creators

Stories

• Demon Reign · 23 pages

  N'astirh and S'ym battle over Magik who has taken on the form of a demon. The New Mutants team up with the X-Terminators to save ten babies that N'astirh is using in an arcane spell to keep his door to Limbo open. S'ym infects N'astirh with the transmode virus. Magik is confronted by N'astirh once more and submits to the temptation of using her Soul Sword against him which transforms her into a silver armored form.

Characters

Reprinted in

X-Men: Inferno (1996), X-Men: Inferno (2009), X-Men: Inferno (2016), New Mutants Epic Collection (2017), X-Men Milestones: Inferno (2019), New Mutants Omnibus (2020), X-Men: Inferno Omnibus (2021)