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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.
Character Real name Joined in Notes/current status Alpha Flight, volume 1 recruits : Marrina: Marrina Smallwood Alpha Flight, vol. 1 #1 (1983) : Married Namor the Sub-Mariner in Alpha Flight, vol. 1 #40; killed by Namor after she mutated in Avengers vol. 1 #291-293; resurrected in Chaos War: Alpha Flight; member of the re-formed Alpha Flight
Guardian was a fan character, created by John Byrne years before he did any professional work in comics. [3]He was originally called "the Canadian Shield", after the rock formation, but when Byrne introduced the character in X-Men, this name was rejected by publisher Marvel Comics because of their prominent fictional organization named S.H.I.E.L.D. Byrne then suggested "Guardian", but this was ...
Vindicator (Heather MacNeil Hudson) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.Following the apparent death of her husband James, Heather inherits his leadership of Alpha Flight and battle suit, taking on the codename Vindicator, a previous codename James used.
In Alpha Flight #106 (1992), writer Scott Lobdell was given permission to have the character Northstar state, "I am gay." [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] As the first major, openly gay character created by Marvel Comics, Northstar generated significant publicity in the mainstream press [ 6 ] and Alpha Flight #106 sold out in a week, despite the fact that the ...
1930s. American Airways flight attendants Mae Bobeck, Agnes Nohava, Marie Allen, and Velma Maul are poised, each with her right hand on the guard rail, as they descend the boarding steps of an ...
During the "Fear Itself" storyline, it was revealed that Master of the World was behind the motives of the Unity Party which targeted Alpha Flight. When Alpha Flight had escaped from Department H, he used his powers to have Vindicator and Department H assemble Alpha Strike (consisting of Persuasion, Ranark, a Wendigo, and a brainwashed Citadel ...
Alpha Flight managed to project Langkowski's soul into the Box machine. [6] With Alpha Flight, Bochs encountered Courtney once more, who was impersonating Guardian, along with the rest of Omega Flight. [7] Omega was defeated with the assistance of the Beyonder, [8] and Jeffries arrived to use his powers to turn Courtney inside-out, destroying ...