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Issue Details

Issue #82
Published Mid-November 1989
Cover Price 1.00
Pages 36
Editing Bob Harras (editor); Tom DeFalco (editor-in-chief)
Notes In late 1989 Marvel adjusted their cover dates so that they were only two months ahead of schedule instead of four, hence the "Mid November" cover date. A full month passed between the publication of this issue and the two issues surrounding it.

Cover Details

Characters Cannonball, Sunspot, Rictor, Wolfsbane, Garm.
Genre superhero
Pencils Bret Blevins (?)
Inks Bret Blevins (?)
Notes In late 1989 Marvel adjusted their cover dates so that they were only two months ahead of schedule instead of four, hence the "Mid November" cover date. A full month passed between the publication of this issue and the two issues surrounding it.

23 page New Mutants story "The Road to Hel . . ."

Characters Boom Boom, Cannonball, Mirage, Rictor, Rusty, Skids, Sunspot, Warlock, Wolfsbane; V: Hela, Valkyries, Garm, Frost Giants, Freedom Force (Blob, Mystique, Pyro); GA: Odin; OC: Eitri, Kindra, Mist, Wolf Prince, Volstagg's children.
Synopsis Cannonball, Rictor, Sunspot, and Wolfsbane are captured; Hela blackmails Eitri into making a sword to kill Odin, who is sleeping the Odin Sleep; Boom Boom, Warlock, and the Wolf Prince get help from Volstagg's children, and are captured by Frost Giants.
Genre superhero
Script Louise Simonson
Pencils Bret Blevins
Inks Al Williamson
Colors Glynis Oliver
Letters Joe Rosen
Notes Part 5 of 8. The story continues from issue #80 (issue #81 is a fill-in issue).