COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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New Mutants 13
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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1194971006
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Owner:
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bagofleas
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Kitty's always either yelling or crying on covers.
Published: 3/84
Sal Buscema and Tom Mandrake art
I had this gorgeous copy signed by Chris Claremont at Megacon 2013 and it stands as the only SS 9.8 copy as of this posting!
Story Title: School Daysze
SUMMARY:
Amara is introduced to Prof X, who decides to keep a very close psychically linked eye on her due to her very dangerous powers and fragile emotions.
During an evening dinner party, Sam (showing off) accidentally gets soda all over Amara's dress from her dead mother & she wigs out, causing a magma fissure to erupt and setting a tree on fire which Bobby throws into a lake to put out.
Meanwhile, Henry Peter Gyrich & Sebastian Shaw test out a new model Sentinel, paid for by Shaw and designed by Gyrich's Project Wideawake. During the test, someone hacks into the system & causes the Sentinel to go wild! Gyrich has no choice but to self destruct the unit. Gyrich vows vengeance on the hackers.
Kitty Pryde, along with her partner Doug Ramsey, were behind the hacking. Kitty wants to know more about Shaw but can't tell Doug everything because she knows Shaw is a mutant himself. Kitty leaves the Ramsey estate through the woods & comes upon Amara. She offers help to the Nova Roman but Amara's mental state has her on edge & she snaps at Kitty, who tramps off again.
Kitty comes upon the other New Mutants who tell her that they can take care of their own & make reference to her having previously referred to them as "X-Babies". Kitty meets with the professor, who reminds her of her obligations to the X-Men & to do her best to work with the New Mutants & leave the feud behind.
Prof X mentally goes over all the recent events of his students. Kitty's displacement, Amara's sadness, the possible after effects of the drug that was injected into Roberto & Rahne (read Marvel Team-Up Annual #6 in my set), his missing of Lilandra. Then he's hit with another, more intense, mental scanning wave, which have been plaguing him of late. Who's doing it, he still hasn't found out yet but he has too many other obligations to focus all his resources on it right now.
The kids go through a computer lesson, some more successfully than others & then have a dance class with Ms. Hunter. Rahne unconsciously transforms during a dance move & is warned by the others to be more careful in public.
The Prof tries to have a danger room session with Amara, but she balks at the Prof being in her mind to monitor her. He had previously promised to do no such thing & Amara sees this as a lie. She runs back to her room & ignores the Prof's mental callings..
Later that night, she oversees the Prof in an intimate holographic conversation with Lilandra, and after a touching conversation with the Prof herself, decides finally to stay for good & let the Prof do whatever he needs to in order to train her.
Continued in #14...
Personal Comments:
Amara has to learn control of her powers. She's very emotional & the slightest thing is causing her to erupt, literally!!
The Sentinels look like they could become very big threats soon. Luckily, Kitty & Doug took care of this test.
This issue is actually the first appearance of Doug Ramsey who I didn't know at the time would go on to become Cypher.
Who is scanning Prof X? It's gotta be bad, whoever is behind it.
I've known people who were thrust into more responsible positions at an early age. They also felt like those of equal or even older age in "lesser" groups were beneath them. It never sat right with me in real life, so I can definitely identify with Kitty's struggles. Hopefully she can work things out with the others.
Yes! Amara is gonna let the Prof help her.....
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