Doctor	Too bad your hand got slagged.
Cable	It's metal, doc. I can make another one.

Appearing in "A Show of Power!"Edit

Featured Characters:

• The New Mutants
  • Skids (Leaves Team)
  • Rusty Collins (Leaves Team)
  • Cannonball (Sam)
  • Rictor
  • Sunspot
  • Boom-Boom
  • Warlock
  • Wolfsbane (Rahne)
  • Mirage (Dani) - (Leaves Team)

Supporting Characters:

• Cable - (First full appearance as Cable)
• Ship
• Hrimhari
• Eitri
• The Warrior's Three
  • Volstagg
  • Hogun
  • Fandral
• Balder
• Karnilla

Villains:

• Mindless Ones
• Mystique
• The Mutant Liberation Front
  • Stryfe - (First full appearance)
  • Wildside
  • Forearm
  • Reaper
  • Thumbelina
  • Strobe
  • Tempo
  • Zero

Other Characters:

• Several guards
• Unnamed ice-fairy from Tiwaz
• a reporter

Locations:

• Wyoming
  • Pine Bluffs
    • Energy Research Station
• Asgard
  • Bifrost Bridge
• Washington, D.C.
  • a maximum-security hospital
• New York
  • New York City
    • Manhattan
      • Statue of Liberty
        
        

Synopsis for "A Show of Power!"Edit

[1] plot summary at uncannyxmen.net

NotesEdit

• The story shown in the New Mutants Annual #5 takes place in between the panels of this issue.
• The is the first full appearance of Cable as an adult. His first appearance as an infant is in Uncanny X-Men #201.
• Stryfe and the The Mutant Liberation Front are formally introduced. Stryfe's face is revealed in New Mutants #100.
• Danielle Moonstar leaves the cast this issue. She returns in X-Force #27.
• This issue is reprinted in other comics and books, see references for more info.^[1]
  

TriviaEdit

• No trivia.

See AlsoEdit

• Write your own review of this comic!
• Discuss New Mutants Vol 1 87 on the forums
• Cover gallery for the New Mutants series
• Images from New Mutants Vol 1 87

Recommended ReadingEdit

• None.

Links and ReferencesEdit

• 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
• The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators - accessed on 04/16/2010