WHY COLLECTORS WANT IT
first Deadpool
- Deadpool (Wade Wilson) — villain, first appearance
- Domino (Vanessa Carlysle) — first appearance, joins New Mutants
- Gideon (Marvel) — villain, first appearance
Dates
- Cover date
- February 1991
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (3)
Copies of #98 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Direct edition$1.00 cover
Direct
No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
Source ↗ - Newsstand edition$1.00 cover
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 07148602207702
This edition’s page - Australian edition1.50 AUD cover
Australian
Printed cover price 1.50 AUD.
Barcode 07148602207705
This edition’s page
New Mutants #98 Facsimile Edition (2019), The New Mutants No. 98 Facsimile Edition (2022). A facsimile reproduces this issue with a modern cover price and barcode; check before buying.
Creators
Stories
- The Beginning of the End, Part One · 23 pages
Gideon arranges for the murder of Sunspot's father. Deadpool, working for Mr. Tolliver, attacks Cable. Domino defeats him. Cable and Domino plot strategy. Rictor decides to go after Wolfsbane, who stayed in Genosha. Gideon tells Sunspot his father is dead.
Characters
Reprinted in
X-Force Megazine (1996), Wolverine: Origins (2006), Deadpool Classic (2008), X-Force: A Force to Be Reckoned With (2011), X-Force Omnibus (2013), Deadpool Firsts (2016), True Believers: Deadpool (2016), Deadpool: The Adamantium Collection (2017), Deadpool: Beginnings Omnibus (2017), New Mutants Epic Collection (2017), The All Killer No Filler Deadpool Collection (2018), New Mutants #98 Facsimile Edition (2019), Deadpool: Hey, It's Deadpool! (2020), Deadpool Epic Collection (2021), The New Mutants No. 98 Facsimile Edition (2022), New Mutants 98 (2024)