New Mutants Vol 1 89

New Mutants #89
Previous Issue	New Mutants #88
Next Issue	New Mutants #90
Art by: Rob Liefeld and Todd McFarlane
Release Date	March 13, 1990
Cover Date	May, 1990
Issue Details
Editor-in-Chief	Tom DeFalco

1. "The Gift"
Appearances · Synopsis
Writer(s)	Louise Simonson
Penciler(s)	Rob Liefeld
Inker(s)	Hilary Barta
Colorist(s)	Brad Vancata
Letterer(s)	Joe Rosen
Editor(s)	Bob Harras Daryl Edelman

 I believe that with special power comes special responsibility. 

—Cable

Appearing in "The Gift"

Featured Characters:

• New Mutants
  • Cable (Joins)
  • Boom Boom (Tabitha Smith)
  • Cannonball (Sam Guthrie)
  • Sunspot (Roberto "Bobby" Da Costa)
  • Rictor (Julio Richter)
  • Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair)
  • Warlock

Supporting Characters:

• Ship
• Dr. Moira MacTaggert (Possessed by Shadow King)
• Legion (David Haller) (Appears on screen)

Antagonists:

• Freedom Force
  • Blob (Fred Dukes)
  • Pyro (St. John Allerdyce)
  • Crimson Commando (Frank Bohannan)
  • Super Sabre (Martin Fletcher)

Other Characters:

• X-Factor (Mentioned)
• Mystique (Raven Darkhölme) (Mentioned)
• Professor X (Charles Xavier) (Mentioned)
• Unnamed New Yorkers
• Nina Da Costa (Mentioned)
• Mirage (Dani Moonstar) (Mentioned)
• Odin (Mentioned)
• Mutant Liberation Front (Mentioned)
  • Rusty Collins (Mentioned)
  • Skids (Sally Blevins) (Mentioned)

Races and Species:

• Mutants
• Cyborgs
• Mutant Technarch
• Humans
• Robots

Locations:

• Earth
  • North America
    • United States of America
      • New York State
        • New York City
          • Manhattan
            • X-Factor's Ship
            • East River
            • Tiffany's
            • Fifth Avenue
      • Washington, D.C. (Mentioned)
  • Scotland (Mentioned)
    • Muir Island (Mentioned)
  • Nova Roma, Amazon Forest (Mentioned)
• Asgard (Mentioned)
  • Odin's Tower (Mentioned)

Items:

• Techno-Organic Virus
• X-Uniforms

Vehicles:

• Freedom Force Helicopter

Synopsis for "The Gift"

• Synopsis not yet written

Notes

• Cable meets the New Mutants for the first time.
• It is revealed Cable and Moira MacTaggert have met before this issue. That story is eventually told in Cable #-1.
• Rictor recongnizes Cable. It will later be revealed that Rictor believes Cable to be responsible for killing his father, but it was actually Cable's clone, Stryfe, who responsible for his death.
• For the second issue in a row, Super Sabre is incorrectly addressed as Silver Sabre. Moira MacTaggert is incorrectly addressed as Moira McTaggert.

See Also

• 1 image(s) from New Mutants Vol 1 89
• 3 reprint(s) of New Mutants Vol 1 89

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
• The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators - accessed on 04/18/2010