The New Mutants #73

Dates

Cover date

March 1989

On sale

November 10, 1988

Pages

52

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #73 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 07148602207703

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Story arc: Inferno

This is part 24 of 29. 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

Creators

Stories

• The Gift · 40 pages

  N'astirh tries to stike a deal with Magneto and the Hellfire Club. Magik battles S'ym but when her brother arrives, she teleports the New Mutants to Limbo in shame as she doesn't want Colossus to see the creature she has become. The New Mutants enter a Limbo stepping disc into the past and rescue the six-year old Illyana. Magik tries to kill her younger, innocent self but Wolfsbane talks her out of it. Magik sends the demons and S'ym back to Limbo and seals it shut, but the massive expulsion of power reverts her back to being a six-year old child.

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)