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Issue Details

Issue #26
Published September 1985
Frequency Monthly
Cover Price 0.65 USD; 0.75 CAD (see notes)
Pages 36
Editing Don Daley (Assistant Editor); Denny O'Neil (Editor); Jim Shooter (Editor-in-Chief)
Notes There is also a price variant cover that only shows the US price (65c).

Cover Details - "Defeated!"

Characters Alpha Flight [Heather Hudson; Puck; Northstar]; Omega Flight Guardian [Delphine Courtney]; Wildchild; Diamond Lil; Flashback]
Genre superhero
Pencils John Byrne (signed)
Inks Bob Wiacek (signed)

22 page Alpha Flight story "If At First You Don't Succeed..."

Characters Alpha Flight [Heather McNeil Hudson; Shaman; Puck; Aurora; Northstar; Talisman; Box [Walter Langkowski]]; Macro System; Omega Flight [Guardian [Delphine Courtney]; Wildchild; Diamond Lil; Flashback]
Synopsis Guardian trains once again with his old Alpha Flight team but a few members still have some reservations about his return from the dead; When the news comes in that Omega Flight has taken over a mall, the Alphans charge in only to be soundly defeated by the bad guys. Heather is confronted by Guardian who turns out, not to be her dead husband Mac, but the evil robot Delphine Courtney.
Genre superhero
Script John Byrne
Pencils John Byrne
Inks Bob Wiacek
Colors Andy Yanchus
Letters Rick Parker

1 page letters page "Alpha Waves"

Script Denny O'Neil (signed); ?
Letters Typeset
Notes Letters of comment from readers Rick Laur, Todd Osborne, No name given, Tony Salmi, Alan Sissom, Sheldon A. Wiebe and Jack Van Schoyck.