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Marvel Graphic Novel #4 (1982):
“The New Mutants”
by Chris Claremont, Bob McLeod

Marvel Graphic Novel #4

Title: “The New Mutants”

Medium: comic

Cover date: 1982

Publisher: Marvel
Written by: Chris Claremont
Art by: Bob McLeod


12 characters in this story:

Character
(Click links for info about character
and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)		 Religious
Affiliation		 Team(s)
[Notes]		 Pub. #
app.
Professor X Professor X (Charles Xavier) hero scientist
CBR Scale: S religious
 Brotherhood of Mutants; Genoshan Excalibur...  Marvel 4,999
Cannonball Cannonball (Sam Guthrie) hero
CBR Scale: S Baptist
 Academy of Tomorrow; The Avengers...  Marvel 831
Mirage Mirage (Danielle Moonstar) hero
CBR Scale: M Native American religion (Cheyenne) / Teutonic paganism
 Mutant Liberation Front; Native American...  Marvel 470
Wolfsbane Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair) hero
CBR Scale: M Presbyterian
 Excalibur; The New Mutants...  Marvel 576
Sunspot Sunspot (Roberto Dacosta) hero
CBR Scale: I Catholic
 Academy of Tomorrow; black...  Marvel 574
Karma Karma (Xi'an Coy Manh) hero
CBR Scale: S Catholic; LGBT
 Academy of Tomorrow; Asian...  Marvel 260
White Bishop White Bishop (Donald Pierce) villain
CBR Scale: M anti-mutant
 The Hellfire Club; The Reavers (leader) Marvel 86
Moira MacTaggert Moira MacTaggert supporting character scientist
   [Charles Xavier's colleague, girlfriend] Marvel 243
Reverend Craig Reverend Craig supporting character clergy/religious leader
CBR Scale: D Scots Presbyterian minister
 [father of Wolfsbane] Marvel 15
The New Mutants The New Mutants hero group
   [1st app: Marvel Graphic Novel #4 (1982)] Marvel 1,022
Lucinda Guthrie Lucinda Guthrie
(mentioned)		 supporting character
CBR Scale: S Baptist
 [Cannonball's mother] Marvel 21
Zeke Guthrie
(mentioned)		 supporting character
CBR Scale: S Baptist
 [Cannonball's father] Marvel 3

Cover of New Mutants Graphic Novel (Marvel Graphic Novel #4)
Detail from cover of New Mutants Graphic Novel (Marvel Graphic Novel #4) 		Cover Date: 1982
Publisher: Marvel

Story 1:
Renewal
Pages: 47

Credits (as printed)
By [Writer]: Chris Claremont
By [Artist]: Bob McLeod
Lettered by: Tom Orzechowski
Colored by: Glynis Wein
Edited by: Louise Jones
Editor in Chief: Jim Shooter

Cover
Cover Price: $4.95
Cover Artist(s): Bob McLeod

Cover Blurb(s): [none]
Featured on Cover: Mirage (Danielle Moonstar), Wolfsbane (in full wolf form), Sunspot, Karma, Cannonball, Sunspot, Professor Charles Xavier
Shown in Corner Box: [none]

Summary
A new generation of mutant students - heretofore known as "the New Mutants" - is gathered from around the world by Professor Charles Xavier, for the purpose of training them in the use of their powers. Meanwhile, the mutant-hating cyborg Donald Pierce plots to kill a number of the same mutants. The young mutants help Professor Xavier prevent Pierce's planned assassinations and apprehend him. They join together as Professor Xavier's new class: Xi'an Coy Manh, Rahne Sinclair, Danielle Moonstar, Roberto da Costa and Sam Guthrie.

Cover box: New Mutants Graphic Novel (Marvel Graphic Novel #4)
Cover artist signature, New Mutants Graphic Novel (Marvel Graphic Novel #4)

Index to Marvel Graphic Novel #4: The New Mutants
Cannonball (Sam Guthrie): C, 8-10, 23, 32-33, 36, 38, 41-44, 46-47
Mirage (Danielle Moonstar): C, 11-14, 19-20, 21-26, 29-31, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40-41, 43-47
Sunspot (Roberto DaCosta): C, 4-7, 10, 23-25, 26-31, 35, 37-47
Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair): C, 1-3, 15-20, 22-23, 32-37, 38, 39-41, 43-47
Karma (Xi'an Coy Manh): C, 15-26, 29-31, 35, 37-38, 41, 43-47
adrenalin: 9
An Morag (in Northwest Scotland): 1
Angel (Warren Worthington III): 45 (photo)
Appalachian Mountains: 8
Beast (Hank McCoy): 45 (photo)
bionic: 40, 42
black (race): 5
black lung: 8
blood: 3, 9, 13, 18, 27, 39-40
blood brother: 13
Boat People (Vietnamese refugees): 17
Bowen, Father Michael (priest): 38
Brazil/Brazilian: 4, 23, 32
Brood (alien race): 18
bullet: 3, 31
Cameron County, Kentucky: 8, 32
Cerebro: 26
Cheyenne: 23, 29, 46
church: 19
coal: 8
college: 8
Colorado: 11, 13 (seen on map), 19-20
Colossus (Piotr Rasputin): 45 (photo)
confession (Catholic): 38
Continental Divide: 20
Coy, General Nguyen Ngoc (Xi'an's uncle): 17
Cyclops (Scott Summers): 45 (photos)
DaCosta, Emmanuel (Roberto's father): 4, 6-7, 24
demons: 3
Devil: 3
DNA: 3
doctor: 2, 6, 19, 25
dog: 34
Dominic (friend, teammate on Roberto's old soccer team): 6
Dynamos (rival soccer team of Roberto's team): 4-6
Earth: 15
English (language): 2, 26, 30
fairy tale: 17
first aid: 23
foul: 5
God/Lord: 2-3, 38
Great Spirit: 12
Guinea pig: 15
Guthrie, Lucinda (Sam's mother): 8
Guthrie, Thomas Zebulon (Sam's father): 8-9
helicopter: 33
Hellfire Club: 13, 35, 44
Highlands (of Scotland)/Highlander: 1
horse/pony: 14
hospital: 43, 46
Hulk: 27
human: 2, 5, 32, 35-36
Iceman (Bobby Drake): 45 (photo)
Idaho: 13 (seen on map)
Jaime (friend, teammate on Roberto's old soccer team): 6
jeep: 33, 36
Karma's late father: 17, 38
Karma's late mother: 17
Keller (player on Dynamos soccer team, rival of Roberto): 5-6
Kentucky: 8, 10, 23, 32
Kinross (Moira MacTaggart's family): 3, 19
Kinross, Lord (Moira MacTaggart's father): 3
Lewis, Frank (coal miner, co-worker of Sam): 8-10
MacTaggart, Moira: 1-3, 15-19, 24-25, 26, 32, 43
Manh, Leong Xui (Karma's brother): 17, 19, 45
Manh, Nga (Karma's sister): 17, 19, 45
Manh, Tran (Karma's evil brother): 17-18
Medicine Bow Mountains, Colorado: 11
mines: 8
miracle: 10
Mister Fantastic (Reed Richards): 17
monster: 6, 26, 31
Moonstar, Black Eagle (Danielle's grandfather): 12-14, 19, 20, 21-23, 40, 45
Moonstar, Margaret "Peg" (Danielle's mother): 22
Moonstar, William (Danielle's father): 13, 19, 22-23
mountain lion: 11, 21
multato ('halfbreed'): 5
mutant: 3, 7, 15, 17-19, 22-23, 26, 31, 38, 41-42, 46
mutie: 13, 21, 28
Native American/Indian: 14, 21
New Mutants: 1-47
Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner): 45 (photo)
orphan: 19
Phoenix (Jean Grey): 45 (photo)
Pierce, Donald: 7, 10, 13, 23, 25, 29, 33, 35, 37-38, 39-44, 46-47
Pierce-Consolidated #7 mine: 8
pirates: 17
police: 23-25, 32
Portuguese: 4, 30
prayer: 18, 39
private soldiers/goons: 12, 21-23, 25-31, 33, 35, 37-38
Professor Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters: 15
puberty: 3
puppets: 18
Reavers: 26-31, 33, 35, 37-38
referee: 5
Regency Hotel (Rio de Janiero): 24
Reverend Craig: 3, 35, 45
Ridge-Runner (Danielle's mountain lion friend): 11, 12, 21, 22
Rio de Janiero, Brazil: 4, 24, 26
Rocky Mountains: 13
Saints (Catholic): 4, 6, 29, 43
Sandoval, Juliana (Roberto's girlfriend): 4, 6-7, 24-25, 26-27, 28, 29-31, 32, 39, 45
Satan: 17
scholarship: 8
Scotland/Scots: 1, 39
September: 45
Shadowcat (Kitty Pryde): 45 (photo)
shaman: 20
shape-changer: 2
Shaw, Sebastian: 13
sheriff: 14, 41
slum: 26
soccer (also called 'football'): 4-7, 26
soccer ball (a 'football'): 4
sorceress/sorcery/witch: 3
soul: 3
St. Andrew: 36
Storm (Ororo Munroe): 45 (photo)
Sundance, Colorado: 11, 14
Sunday: 38
telepath/telepathy: 15-16, 23, 37, 43
Tessa (Hellfire Club): 13, 35, 40, 43-44
Thai: 17
U.S. - West: 19
USA/America/Americans: 31
Utah: 13 (seen on map)
Vietnam War: 20, 23
Vietnam/Vietnamese: 15, 17, 20
Vilar School Thunderbolts (Roberto's soccer team prior to joining New Mutants): 4
war: 23
white/Caucasian/Anglo: 12-13, 22
wolf (the word spoken, or wolf other than Rahne seen): 2, 14, 45
Wolverine (Logan): 28, 29-30 (illusion), 45 (photos)
Wyoming: 13
X-Men: 13, 15, 18, 32, 44
Xavier's Mansion: 45
Xavier, Professor Charles: C, 3, 12-13, 15-20, 21, 22-23, 31, 32-33, 34, 35, 37-38, 39-47

Marvel Graphic Novel #4: New Mutants is widely known as the New Mutants Graphic Novel.

An alternative form of this story's title is: “Renewal”. Webpage for Marvel Graphic Novel #4 (1982) created 2 February 2006. Last modified 28 October 2013.

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