Summary - Alpha Flight v.1 #52

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Issue: Alpha Flight 52
Date: Nov-87
Story: Specters! (22 pages)

Feature Characters: Heather, Madison Jeffries, Walter/Wanda, Kara, Knapp; Mac, Michael, Snowbird, Jean-Paul, Jeanne-Marie, Walter, plus Beta and Gamma Flights (all flashbacks)

Regular Characters: Gary Cody

Guest Stars: Logan (in flashback as Weapon X, and as Wolverine)

Villains: Bedlam

Other Characters:

Synopsis: Cody goes over Heather's files, summarizing Alpha Flight's history to date. The Canadian government is growing afraid that their super team may become uncontrollable and turn on them.
Flashback to the beginning of the team: having searched Canada for heroes and finding only Logan, Mac decided make a hero out of someone with latent powers. He found a criminal, but there is no record of what happened next.
Cody searches the old Dept. H, trying to learn if he can create his own race of superheroes.
Kara kisses Knapp, and Jeffries Heather, on this, the first anniversary of Mac's death.
Cody finds a cocoon, from which Bedlam bursts and kills him. Mac left a recorded warning, which alerts Wolverine by phone.