*Marvel: Spinning out of a two-part ‘stealth pilot’ in X-Men #120 and #121, Alpha Flight were introduced as Canada’s premier super-team, retconned as the superhuman project from which Wolverine originated. Although therefore linked to Marvel’s most lucrative franchise, writer/artist John Byrne resisted too many crossovers with the mainstream MU, having the Flight predominantly operating in mainland Canada, and using the virtual tabula rasa of the characters to create stories which evoked the classic Marvel Silver Age, yet with a modern sensibility. Byrne quit the title after issue #28, and while the series went on for a long while after that (and indeed has had several subsequent revivals), it’s a truth universally acknowledged that the first 28 are the only ones really worth bothering with, so we’ve promoted the ones we have in stock to our catalogue listing.