New Mutants Vol 1 78

New Mutants #78
Previous Issue	New Mutants #77
Next Issue	New Mutants #79
Art by: Rick Leonardi and Al Williamson
Release Date	April 11, 1989
Cover Date	August, 1989
Issue Details
Editor-in-Chief	Tom DeFalco

1. "Let's Make a Deal!"
Appearances · Synopsis
Writer(s)	Louise Simonson
Penciler(s)	Rick Leonardi
Inker(s)	Al Williamson
Colorist(s)	Glynis Oliver
Letterer(s)	Joe Rosen
Editor(s)	Bob Harras

 So just go away and leave us... 3... 2... 1... alone! 

—Boom-Boom, while setting off one of her time-bombs

Appearing in "Let's Make a Deal!"

Featured Characters:

• New Mutants
  • Skids (Sally Blevins)
  • Rictor (Julio Richter)
  • Boom-Boom (Tabitha Smith)
  • Rusty Collins
  • Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair)
  • Cannonball (Sam Guthrie)
  • Sunspot (Roberto "Bobby" Da Costa)
  • Warlock (Impersonates Popeye)

Supporting Characters:

• Brightwind
• Doctor Strange (Dr. Stephen Sanders)
• Ship

Antagonists:

• Mirage (Dani Moonstar) (Controlled by Hela)
• Hela
• Freedom Force
  • Crimson Commando (Frank Bohannan)
  • Mystique (Raven Darkhölme) (Impersonates Cyclops)
  • Destiny (Irene Adler)
  • Blob (Fred Dukes)
  • Avalanche (Dominikos Petrakis)
  • Pyro (St. John Allerdyce)
  • Super Sabre (Martin Fletcher)

Other Characters:

• Valkyries (Mentioned)
• Thor (Odinson) (Vision or hallucination)
• Odin (Mentioned)
• X-Men (Mentioned)
• Illyana Rasputina (Mentioned)
• Kidnapped mutant babies (Mentioned)
• X-Factor (Mentioned)

Races and Species:

• Mutants
• Humans
• Winged Horses
• Mutant Technarch
• Robots
• Asgardians

Locations:

• Earth
  • North America
    • United States of America
      • New York State
        • New York City
          • Manhattan
            • Greenwich Village
              • Bleecker Street
                • Sanctum Sanctorum
            • Financial District
              • World Trade Center
          • Upper New York Bay
            • Liberty Island
              • Statue of Liberty
      • Kansas (Mentioned)
  • Atlantic Ocean
    • Ship
• Asgard
  • City of Asgard
• Niffleheim
  • Hel
• Negative Zone (Mentioned)
• Oz (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)

Items:

• X-Uniforms
• Eye of Agamotto
• Icemaker
• Mutant Registration Act

Vehicles:

• Freedom Force Helicopter
• Ship

Synopsis for "Let's Make a Deal!"

Continued from the previous issue...

The New Mutants try to carry Dani - still in her ice machine - back to Ship and are trailed by Dr Strange's astral form. However, they get intercepted by Freedom Force, who are out to arrest Rusty again. The New Mutants try to explain the situation with Dani and talk their way out of having to fight, but Freedom Force isn't buying it and attacks the New Mutants. The two groups land on Liberty Island and begin to fight, with Destiny stating that dark times are coming if Rusty escapes. Blob also gives away that the government has something planned for the babies from Inferno as a way to try and convince Rusty to give up, but it doesn't work and Mystique scolds him. Skids puts up a force field to hold Rusty while the others try to get Dani home before the ice machine breaks, but they are too late and Dani breaks free. Before she can burn everything, Dr Strange sends the New Mutants - minus Rusty and Skids - to Asgard in order to try and stop Hela's evil plan.

Continued next issue...

Trivia

• Super Sabre mistakenly calls himself the Silver Sabre in this issue.

See Also

• 1 image(s) from New Mutants Vol 1 78
• 2 reprint(s) of New Mutants Vol 1 78

Links and References

• The New Mutants at Wikipedia
• The New Mutants at Marvel Subscriptions
• The New Mutants series index at Comicbookdb.com
• The New Mutants series index at Uncanny X-Men.net
• The New Mutants series index at the Grand Comics Database Project