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Alpha Flight (1983)
Alpha Flight (1983-1994) #1
Introducing Canada's premiere superhero team, Alpha Flight, as they take on the dimensional beast Tundra!
39 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 31, 1983
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John Byrne
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John Lindley Byrne is a British-born Canadian-American author and artist of comic books. Since the mid-1970s, Byrne has worked on nearly every major American superhero.
Byrne's better-known work has been on Marvel Comics' X-Men and Fantastic Four and the 1986 relaunch of DC Comics’ Superman franchise. Coming into the comics profession exclusively as a penciler, Byrne began co-plotting the X-Men comics during his tenure on them, and launched his writing career in earnest with Fantastic Four (where he also started inking his own pencils). During the 1990s he produced a number of creator-owned works, including Next Men and Danger Unlimited. He also wrote the first issues of Mike Mignola's Hellboy series and produced a number of Star Trek comics for IDW Publishing.
There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name
John Lindley Byrne is a British-born Canadian-American author and artist of comic books. Since the mid-1970s, Byrne has worked on nearly every major American superhero.
Byrne's better-known work has been on Marvel Comics' X-Men and Fantastic Four and the 1986 relaunch of DC Comics’ Superman franchise. Coming into the comics profession exclusively as a penciler, Byrne began co-plotting the X-Men comics during his tenure on them, and launched his writing career in earnest with Fantastic Four (where he also started inking his own pencils). During the 1990s he produced a number of creator-owned works, including Next Men and Danger Unlimited. He also wrote the first issues of Mike Mignola's Hellboy series and produced a number of Star Trek comics for IDW Publishing.
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August 30, 2015
The Canadian X-men of their time...
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June 24, 2022Noting that I read the print version.
June 5, 2019
As a Canadian who has only recently gotten into comics, I had to order the facsimile edition of Alpha Flight #1 when I saw it offered. Yes, it's early '80s, and I'm not a fan of the comic art style of that era, but it's set in Canada, some of it in a city less than an hour from where I was born. The double-sized issue was enough to really feel like I was getting to know a bit of what the series was like, though an unexpected joy was seeing the 1983 advertisements reproduced and imagining subscribing to comics for 42 cents per issue and cover prices of 60 cents (unlike the $4.99 shown on the cover of 2019's facsimile).
This does tempt me to look for more Alpha Flight, even with all the cheese. Makes me wish I had been a young comic reader when these were coming out!
This does tempt me to look for more Alpha Flight, even with all the cheese. Makes me wish I had been a young comic reader when these were coming out!
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews