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Cover Date: October 1983
Publisher: Marvel
Story 1:
The Road to . . . Rome?
Pages: 22
Credits (as printed)
Writer: Chris Claremont
Penciler: Sal Buscema
Inker: Bob McLeod
Letterer: Tom Orzechowski
Colorist: Glynis Wein
Editor: Louise Jones
Editor in Chief: Jim Shooter
Created by: Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod
Cover
Cover Price: 60¢
Cover Artist(s): Bob McLeod
Cover Blurb(s): word balloon spoken by Mirage (speaking about the three Amazon women she is fighting, while Sam struggles against a single Amazon who holds the point of a spear to his throat): "They're not as tough as they look, are they Sam?"
Featured on Cover: Mirage (Danielle Moonstar), Cannonball, 4 unnamed Amazon warrior women
Shown in Corner Box: Cannonball, Karma, Wolfsbane, Sunspot, Mirage (Danielle Moonstar)
Letter column: no
Summary
Professor Nina DaCosta, an archaeologist, leads the New Mutants (Sam, Rahne, Danielle and her son Roberto) on an expedition up the Amazon. Their target destination is the Maderia. Unfortunately, Nina's husband, wealthy businessman Emmanuel DaCosta, intends to exploit this region for its minerals and does not wish Nina or anyone else to venture there. Castro, a boathand on the yacht they are using, tries to sabotage the expedition. Castro has been hired to do so by Sebastian Shaw, leader of the Hellfire Club, who is working with Emmanual DaCosta, trying to induce the man to join the Hellfire Club's Inner Circle. Sam ("Cannonball") rescues a swimming Danielle Moonstar from piranha lured by Castro by flying her to shore, only to encounter three dark-skinned, black-haired Native South American (Indian) women. Danielle and Sam defend themselves when these women attack them, and manage to capture one of them, who they take back to the yacht for questioning. The girl apparently speaks no English, but manages to say her name: Amara. Later Castro drugs the New Mutants, kills the yacht captain, gets the rest of the crew to abandon the boat. The yacht drifts into a dangerous tributary an crashes on rocks, destroyed. Amara's body make-up washes off in the river, revealing that she is actually white-skinned and blonde. She also speaks English for the first time while Rahne is rescuing her. Sam, Roberto, Wolfsbane and Danielle manage to survive the boat wreck and get to shore, but Roberto's mother is nowhere to be found. Before they can look for her, a legion of Centurions (or "Legionnaires") emerges from the jungle and declares the New Mutants to be their prisoners and slaves, in the name of Imperial Rome.
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