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Issue Details

Issue #9
Published November 1983
Cover Price 0.60
Pages 36
Editing Louise Jones (editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

Cover Details

Characters Cannonball, Sunspot, Psyche, Wolfsbane.
Genre superhero
Pencils Bob McLeod
Inks Bob McLeod
Reprinted in Nuovi Mutanti, I (Play Press, 1989 series) #9

22 page New Mutants story "Arena"

Characters Cannonball, Psyche, Sunspot, Wolfsbane; V: Selene (I), Marcus Domitius Gallio (I), Castro; SC: Amara Aquilla; OC: Lucius Antonius Aquilla; cameo: Professor X.
Synopsis The New Mutants and Amara are taken to Nova Roma, a hidden city near the headwaters of the Amazon, where they are caught in a power struggle involving Amara's father; the boys are forced to fight in the arena; and Wolfsbane is hailed as a god.
Genre superhero
Script Chris Claremont
Pencils Sal Buscema
Inks Tom Mandrake
Colors Glynis Wein
Letters Tom Orzechowski
Notes Part 3 of 6.
Reprinted in Nuovi Mutanti, I (Play Press, 1989 series) #9