New Mutants Vol 1 87

New Mutants #87
Previous Issue	New Mutants #86
Next Issue	(title) New Mutants #88 (story) New Mutants Annual #5
Alternate Covers
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Art by: Rob Liefeld and Todd McFarlane
Cover Date	March, 1990
Issue Details
Editor-in-Chief	Tom DeFalco

1. "A Show of Power!"
Appearances · Synopsis
Writer(s)	Louise Simonson
Penciler(s)	Rob Liefeld
Inker(s)	Bob Wiacek
Letterer(s)	Joe Rosen
Editor(s)	Bob Harras

Doctor	Too bad your hand got slagged.
Cable	It's metal, doc. I can make another one.

Appearing in "A Show of Power!"

Featured Characters:

• New Mutants
  • Skids (Leaves)
  • Rusty Collins (Leaves)
  • Cannonball (Sam)
  • Rictor
  • Sunspot
  • Boom-Boom
  • Warlock
  • Wolfsbane (Rahne)
  • Mirage (Dani) (Leaves)

Supporting Characters:

• Cable (First full appearance as Cable)
• Ship
• Hrimhari
• Eitri
• Warriors Three
  • Volstagg
  • Hogun
  • Fandral
• Balder
• Karnilla

Antagonists:

• Mindless Ones
• Mystique
• Mutant Liberation Front (First full appearance)
  • Stryfe (First full appearance)
  • Wildside (First full appearance)
  • Forearm (First full appearance)
  • Reaper (First full appearance)
  • Thumbelina (First full appearance)
  • Strobe (First full appearance)
  • Tempo (First full appearance)
  • Zero (First full appearance)

Other Characters:

• Several guards
• Unnamed ice-fairy from Tiwaz
• a reporter
• Tiwaz (Mentioned)

Locations:

• Wyoming
  • Pine Bluffs (First appearance)
    • Energy Research Station
• Asgard
  • City of Asgard
  • Bifrost Bridge
• Washington, D.C.
  • a maximum-security hospital
• New York
  • New York City
    • Manhattan
      • Statue of Liberty

Synopsis for "A Show of Power!"

• Synopsis not yet written

Notes

• A second printing gold metallic ink cover exists.
• The cover is an homage to the cover of Avengers #145 (March 1976).
• The story shown in the New Mutants Annual #5 takes place in between the panels of this issue.
• The is the first full appearance of Cable as an adult. His first appearance as an infant is in Uncanny X-Men #201.
• Stryfe and the The Mutant Liberation Front are formally introduced. Stryfe's face is revealed in New Mutants #100.
• Danielle Moonstar leaves the cast this issue. She returns in X-Force #27.
• This issue is reprinted in other comics and books, see references for more info.

See Also

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• 3 reprint(s) of New Mutants Vol 1 87

Links and References

• The New Mutants at Wikipedia
• The New Mutants at Marvel Subscriptions
• The New Mutants series index at Comicbookdb.com
• The New Mutants series index at Uncanny X-Men.net
• The New Mutants series index at the Grand Comics Database Project
• [1] plot summary at uncannyxmen.net
• The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators - accessed on 04/16/2010