Alpha Flight 1983 #8 Direct ed. - back issue - $4.25

Northstar tracks down Aurora and Deadly Ernest but is beaten to the punch in taking him down by the mysterious Nemesis.

Shaman is contacted by James and Heather. They want him and Snowbird to come work for Department H.

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #36, with newsstand on-sale date of 1983-12-13.

• Genesis - The real name of Snowbird, ?Narya,? is revealed in this episode of The Origins of Alpha Flight. Snowbird appears for the first time in X-Men #120, April 1979, under the identity and form of ?Anne McKenzie.? This alias will later prove to be her human aspect one for, although not explicitly, her goddess nature is referred to the first time in X-Men #140, December 1980. As the episodes of Alpha Flight go, her human pseudonym ?Anne McKenzie? will be less utilized, in favor of Narya.
• - Letters of comment from readers Dustan Leary, Sue Crawbuck, Louis Bispo, Dennis K. Catacci, T. M. Maple, Anthony Padilla, Conrad P. Felber and Allen Oliver.