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Posted: 31 March 2008 at 2:12pm | IP Logged | 1  

I've got an AF commission on the board today -- working on it around other
things, so don't look for it to be posted too soon! -- and getting out the
reference got me looking at the covers, and realizing that April or May
(depending on what the release schedule was back in 1983) this year is the
25th Anniversary of ALPHA FLIGHT 1.

A baby born the day that issue came out is now old enough to vote, drink,
and generally behave something like an adult (tho it will be a while yet
before his bones are hard. . . )
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Ryan Maxwell
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Wait, I haven't even requested anything lately.  Ah, JB, you shouldn't have!  :^)

A very happy anniversary to my favorite band of fictional characters!

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Lars Sandmark
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Happy A.,AF!

I love this drawing!



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Vinny Valenti
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It was April 1983 that AF#1 came out. One of those inane details ingrained in my mind as a child - back then release dates were 4 months ahead of the cover date, which changed in 1989.

It was the second comic book I ever bought, so damn I feel old now!

Putting this in perspective, at this point, the Marvel Universe as we knew it was not yet 25 years old.


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Steven Cassidy
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Isn't it almost 30 years since Alpha Flight made their first appearance in X-Men 120 / 121 ?

 

 

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Bradley Dean
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I am only 7-8 months older then Alpha Flight #1 :)

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Vinny's comment reminds me of when that big Marvel history coffee table
book came out a decade or more back, and flipping thru it I was amazed to
see art appearing thru almost half the book. Then I realized, at that point,
counting from 1961, I was a pro for about half of Marvel!!
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I love this drawing!

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I wonder why Snowbird is the only one who looks cold?
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Lars Sandmark
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Snowbird is cold but Aurora's comfy, laughin' it off.
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Greg Reeves
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My favorite team ever.  I still hope for some respectable use of these characters; the twins are back to their old costumes but have disappeared after a recent X-Men annual, Sasquatch is a background member of Omega Flight (currently running in Marvel Comics Presents) and Snowbird is about to show up in the Incredible Hercules book as a member of his deity-based team.  Why no one has tried to put the original team back together instead of killing them off and spreading them around everywhere is beyond me...
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Wallace Sellars
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Thanks for sharing that drawing, Lars. I had never seen it before today.
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Joel Tesch
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Man, good times. What a great series. I got introduced to Alpha with Alpha Flight #10 in one of those bagged comic three packs I got from Tons of Toys (I think it also had a Fantastic Four...and a Crystar, of all things, in the middle). A little bit later I was at a newstand and bought Alpha Flight #12 (the first Alpha I bought individually). I subscribed to it right after that (LOVED getting the comics in the brown paper envelope back then).
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