COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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New Mutants 5
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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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1187232003
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Owner:
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bagofleas
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
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Published: 7/83
KEY ISSUE: Viper & Silver Samurai appearance.
Chris Claremont story
Sal Buscema & Bob McLeod art
Armando Gil cover
I cracked this issue open and had Bob McLeod sign it at the 2013 Megacon! COOL!
Story Title: HEROES
SUMMARY:
Professror X tries to walk in his study and crumples to the floor in pain. Lilandra comes to him and he discovers he can't hear the New Mutants thoughts. She tells him to rest for a while and then he should be ok.
Meanwhile, the New Mutants, along with Stevie, are having a blast at the fair where they run into Wolf, Cowboy and R.U. Reddy, three members of Team America, the world-class motorcycle racing and stunt experts. Roberto gets autographs from each of them except for Wolf, who grumpily declines.
Stevie and the others go to grab seats for the stunt show while someone watches Team America from the shadows.
The show goes wonderfully until a group of armed men attack the riders, throwing them off their bikes and causing the crowd to flee in panic. Team America and the New Mutants battle with the soldiers, taking them down one by one.
Then Viper and Harada (the Silver Samurai) appear and discuss how they only meant to try and bring out Team America's "Guardian Angel" known only as the Dark Rider, not the young mutants.
Silver Samurai enters the fray and begins to take down the mutants, then the Dark Rider appears and Harada slices down the riders bike and he crashes. But when Harada removes the Dark Riders mask, it turns out to be DANI ! He then teleports her away, leaving all the others injured and shaken.
Dani comes to in a strange facility and is attacked by giant rolling spikes. She tries to use an available motorcycle, but barely escapes with her life after getting it crushed. Harada appears and takes her to Viper, who questions her about being the Dark Rider. Dani doesn't remember anything about it and gets mad and uses her power on Viper. Viper freaks for a moment, then smacks Dani down and threatens her.
Back at the school, Charles cannot mentally locate Danielle, but apparently discovers how she came to be in the Dark Rider's getup. In Washington, Viper and Silver Samurai pay Honcho (another member of Team America) a visit and tell him to gather together the other members and break into a fortress in Mexico to steal something or Dani will die.
All of Team America, along with Wrench and Giorgianna meet and discuss what to do. Then Professor X and the New Mutants show up and Charles tells the Team that they are able to project all of each of their talents together in possession of an unknowing individual to create the Dark Rider. Dani is simply their most recent victim. He tells them that he will train them to use their powers properly before someone else gets hurt.
Roberto and Wolf exchange harsh words and the mutants go outside to relieve the tension. Then Roberto and the Professor have a mental disagreement on the Professor's aiding Team America before helping Dani and the mutants decide to go after Dani themselves.
Continued in #6...
PERSONAL COMMENTS:
When I read this issue, I had no previous knowledge of Team America, so I was a little lost at first with the Dark Rider business. But I took it in stride, though Dani being shown as the Dark Rider was perplexing at best.
I had also never heard of Viper or Silver Samurai. Every time I came across a new character in this series, I thought they were new & unique to it. In almost every case, however, I came to find out that they were, in fact, already established Marvel characters.
I collected all of the Team America issues because of this issue, and in turn, started collecting all of Ghost Rider because of his appearance in Team America.
It was like dominos. Read a series, meet a new character, like that character, collect that series, repeat ad nauseam...
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