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X-Men, Alpha Flight, and all related characters TM & © Marvel Characters, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 0 8 THIS ISSUE: INTERNATIONAL THIS HEROES! ISSUE: INTERNATIONAL No.83 September 2015 $ 8 . 9 5 1 82658 27762 8 featuring an exclusive interview with cover artists Steve Fastner and Rich Larson Alpha Flight • New X-Men • Global Guardians • Captain Canuck • JLI & more! Volume 1, Number 83 September 2015 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Michael Eury Comics’ Bronze Age and Beyond! PUBLISHER John Morrow DESIGNER Rich Fowlks COVER ARTISTS Steve Fastner and Rich Larson COVER DESIGNER Michael Kronenberg PROOFREADER Rob Smentek SPECIAL THANKS Jack Abramowitz Martin Pasko Howard Bender Carl Potts Jonathan R. Brown Bob Rozakis FLASHBACK: International X-Men . 2 Rebecca Busselle Samuel Savage The global evolution of Marvel’s mighty mutants ByrneRobotics.com Alex Saviuk Dewey Cassell Jason Shayer FLASHBACK: Exploding from the Pages of X-Men: Alpha Flight . 13 Chris Claremont Craig Shutt John Byrne’s not-quite-a team from the Great White North Mike Collins David Smith J. M. DeMatteis Steve Stiles BACKSTAGE PASS: The Captain and the Controversy . 24 Leopoldo Duranona Dan Tandarich How a moral panic in the UK jeopardized the 1976 launch of Captain Britain Scott Edelman Roy Thomas WHAT THE--?!: Spider-Man: The UK Adventures . 29 Raimon Fonseca Fred Van Lente Ramona Fradon Len Wein Even you Spidey know-it-alls may never have read these stories! Keith Giffen Jay Williams BACKSTAGE PASS: Origins of Marvel UK: Not Just Your Father’s Reprints. 37 Steve Goble Keith Williams Repurposing Marvel Comics classics for a new audience Grand Comics Database Dedicated with ART GALLERY: López Espí Marvel Art Gallery . 40 Fred Hembeck admiration to: A collection of superhero illos by the acclaimed Spanish artist Heritage Comics Rafael López Espí Auctions OFF MY CHEST: Challenge of the Super Friends Global Guardians . 45 Joe Hollon Are DC’s international heroes in continuity? Terry Kavanagh Barry Kitson FLASHBACK: Captain Canuck: If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again . 53 Andrew Leyland The trials and tribulations of Richard Comely’s Canadian crimefighter Jean-Marc Lofficier Franck Martini PRO2PRO: Steve Fastner and Rich Larson . 59 Marvel Comics An exclusive interview with our cover artists Robert Menzies FLASHBACK: Justice League International: An Unintentional Trip to the World Stage. 65 Keith Giffen and Marc DeMatteis tell BI how the JL got global If you’re viewing a Digital GREATEST STORIES NEVER TOLD: Shamrock and the Peregrine’s Vanishing Act from Edition of this publication, Dr. Strange #37 . 69 PLEASE READ THIS: What on Earth is a “Frankensurfer”? This is copyrighted material, NOT intended BACK IN PRINT: Hexagon Forever!. 72 for downloading anywhere except our Jean-Marc Lofficier shares the latest news about the Editions Lug universe website or Apps. 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Cover art by Steve Fastner www.twomorrows.com and Rich Larson. X-Men, Alpha Flight, and related characters TM & © Marvel Characters, Inc. All Rights Reserved. All characters are © their respective companies. All material © their creators unless otherwise noted. All editorial matter © 2015 Michael Eury and TwoMorrows Publishing. BACK ISSUE is a TM of TwoMorrows Publishing. ISSN 1932-6904. Printed in China. FIRST PRINTING. International Heroes Issue • BACK ISSUE • 1 TM by Franck Martini International If the original team of X-Men was only composed of [Lee] had had up to thiS point. It didn’t make SenSe to me American characters, such was not the case with the All-New, that heRoeS in geneRal, not even mutantS who weRe oRiginally Mutants All-Different X-Men team that appeared after a five-year SuppoSed to be Related to thingS like the Manhattan The All-New, hiatus. The team would featuRe an inteRnational PRoject, weRe all AmeRicanS. […] TheRe waS no Special RoSteR, but itS adventuReS would alSo take ReaSon foR an IRiSh mutant, except that I wanted All-Different X-Men! place all over our world and beyond. to do a chaRacteR called the BanShee (female, Detail from the if Stan had let me have my way) and BEFORE THE ALL-NEW, he/She waSn’t going to be a GeRman, cover of 1975’S ALL-DIFFERENT… Right? AS foR the JapaneSe Side of There had been international mutants Giant-Size X-Men #1. thingS—well, they had been on the befoRe the team that appeaRed in receiving end of the end result of the Art by Gil Kane and Giant-Size X-Men #1 (July 1975). Roy Manhattan PRoject, So I thought it ThomaS waS then wRiting the book and would be inteReSting and pRoductive Dave Cockrum. wanted to give it a diffeRent vibe: “I did to thRow a JapaneSe oR JapaneSe- cReate BanShee—well, I’d Say ‘co-cReate,’ TM & © Marvel Characters, Inc. American into the mix.” becauSe aRtiSt WeRneR Roth contRibuted So BanShee waS intRoduced in X-Men much of the look, fRom a SoRt of geneRal #28 (Jan. 1967) and SunfiRe made visual idea I gave him—and Sunfire a roy thomas his debut between two Neal Adams couple of years later with Don Heck, iSSueS (X-Men #64, Jan. 1970). It iS alSo much the Same way. I felt that MaRvel Luigi Novi / Wikimedia Commons. interesting to note that thanks to the needed a few ‘foReign mutantS,’ and juSt chaRacteRS fRom one-month Mexico trip mentioned above, Roy Thomas otheR woRldS in geneRal. At that time I hadn’t been out of alSo intRoduced Mexican villainS El TigRe and Kukulkan the countRy except foR a month in Mexico, but I felt it waS in X-Men #25–26 (Oct.–Nov. 1966), a rare case of South time to build on the New York-central mythos that Stan American mutants until New Mutants’ Sunspot. 2 • BACK ISSUE • International Heroes Issue The next “inteRnational” X-Man would be WolveRine, thiS book Sell juSt well enough in the StateS to bReak even,” appeaRing foR the fiRSt time in the pageS of the Incredible as Thomas further explained Alter Ego #24 (May 2003). Hulk #181 (Nov. 1974)—after a cliffhanger cameo in the ThomaS ShaReS a bit moRe about the RoSteR Setup pReviouS iSSue, that iS. Once again, Roy ThomaS waS with BACK ISSUE: “I thought that perhaps pre-existing involved in the creation process as he explained in Tom chaRacteRS I’d had a hand in like the BanShee, SunfiRe, De Falco’S Comics Creators on X-Men (Titan BookS, 2006): and Wolverine might fit in, but I don’t believe that I was “He waS my idea. I came up with hiS name and baSic pushing projected writer Mike Friedrich and artist Dave tRaitS. […] [Al Landau, MaRvel’S then-pReSident, CockRum to include any paRticulaR chaRacteR. A Wail and Assail Stan Lee, and I] decided that we Really Should Canadian, maybe even a JapaneSe, made (right) Ireland’S have a Canadian characteR. […] About five sense in the group, given that the idea was oR ten peRcent of ouR ReadeRS weRe to Sell the Revived X-Men in countRieS Banshee in X-Men Canadian, and yet we didn’t have a wheRe ouR comicS weRe faiRly well #76 (June 1972), Canadian character.” diStRibuted … but theRe waS no Special reason for an Irishman to be included which reprinted A NEW CONCEPT FOR A unless they wanted him to be.” issue #28. Cover NEW TEAM Dave Cockrum, the original New AfteR a few appeaRanceS in Avengers X-Men aRtiSt, Recalled that Roy ThomaS by Gil Kane and an and in Marvel Team-Up, the X-Men pitched him the book aS “Mutant uncredited inker. would RetuRn, but with a diffeRent team, BlackhawkS,” inSpiRed by the inteRnational- and would taRget diffeRent ReadeRS membeR flying aceS that oRiginated (left) Japan’s Sunfire than befoRe aS peR MaRvel pReSident in the Golden Age in the pageS of first appeared in Al Landau’s suggestion: “Al suggested dave cockrum Military Comics and Blackhawk. MaRvel do a gRoup of foReign SupeR- So the idea Stuck, but not the X-Men #64 heroes … characters from countries in Sketch by Michael NetzeR. countRieS aS CockRum alSo Recalled in (Jan. 1970). Cover which Marvel sold a lot of comics,” Thomas said to Tom Alter Ego #24: “By the time we weRe chooSing chaRacteRS, DeFalco. “Stan and I liked the idea. It was my idea to do FSSHT, out the window, you know. So we have a by Sal Buscema and that group with the X-Men.” Russian, we have a Kenyan, and we might’ve sold some Tom Palmer. MoRe pReciSely, theRe waS a Selling StRategy behind in GeRmany and Canada, but that whole concept juSt Al Landau’s idea: “He said, if we could put out a book went out the window. We juSt got caught up in the TM & © Marvel Characters, Inc.