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Issue Details

Issue #26
Published April 1985
Cover Price 0.65
Pages 36
Editing Ann Nocenti (editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)
Notes Painted Cover; New Logo

Cover Details

Characters Legion.
Genre superhero
Pencils Bill Sienkiewicz
Inks Bill Sienkiewicz
Colors Bill Sienkiewicz
Notes Painted Cover; New Logo

21 page New Mutants story "Legion"

Characters Professor X, Cypher, Mirage, Warlock, Wolfsbane; SC: Moira MacTaggert, Jamie Madrox, Tom Corsi, Sharon Friedlander, Aleytys Forrester, Legion (I; David Charles Haller); GA: Banshee, Magneto, Emma Frost, Empath; OC: Gabrielle Haller, Reverend Craig.
Synopsis Gabrielle Haller's autistic son begins exhibiting telepathic, telekinetic, and pyrotic powers; Prof. X and the New Mutants come to help; Wolfsbane encounters Rev. Craig again; Emma Frost gives Empath an ultimatum; Magneto and Aleytys begin a relationship.
Genre superhero
Script Chris Claremont
Pencils Bill Sienkiewicz
Inks Bill Sienkiewicz
Colors Glynis Wein
Letters Tom Orzechowski
Notes Part 1 of 3. This story (finally) ties up the loose end of Xavier's son from issue #1, and the pin-up in issue #25.
Reprinted in Nuovi Mutanti, I (Play Press, 1989 series) #21; in X-Men Archives (Marvel, 1995 series) #1