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Alpha Flight
Alpha Flight is a fictional team of Canadian superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The characters premiered in ''The Uncanny X-Men'' #120 (April 1979), and were created to serve as part of the X-Men member Wolverine's backstory. Marvel published an '' Alpha Flight'' comic book series from 1983 to 1994. The team serves as Marvel's premier Canadian superhero team akin to America's Avengers. Publication history Created by British-born Canadian-raised writer and artist John Byrne, as well as Chris Claremont, the team's leader - Weapon Alpha (later renamed to Guardian), first appeared in ''The Uncanny X-Men'' #109. The full team then first appeared in a two-part story in ''The Uncanny X-Men'' #120 and 121. Byrne never intended the team to be an ongoing title. He created them "merely to survive a fight with the X-Men" for the purposes of that story. Marvel convinced Byrne to feature them in their own series as a way to capitalize on Byrne's soaring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Byrne (comics)
John Lindley Byrne (; born July 6, 1950) is a British-born American comic book writer and artist of superhero comics. Since the mid-1970s, Byrne has worked on many major superheroes; with noted work on Marvel Comics's ''X-Men'' and ''Fantastic Four (comic book), Fantastic Four''. Byrne also facilitated the 1986 relaunch of DC Comics's ''Superman'' franchise with the Limited series (comics), limited series The Man of Steel (comics), ''The Man of Steel'', the first issue of which featured the comics' first variant cover. Coming into the comics profession as a penciller, inker, letterer, and writer on his earliest work, Byrne began co-plotting the ''X-Men'' comics during his tenure on them, for story arcs including "Dark Phoenix Saga" and "Days of Future Past", and co-creating characters such as Kitty Pryde, Emma Frost, Sabretooth (character), Sabretooth, Shadow King, and Rachel Summers. Byrne launched his writing career in earnest with ''Fantastic Four'', also serving as penciler a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
