The New Mutants 1983 #45 Direct ed. - back issue - $3.75

One of the New Mutants' friends at Salem Center high school receives a note indicating that some of his classmates know that he is a mutant and will call X-Factor. He commits suicide. Shadowcat gives an impassioned speech about prejudice at his memorial.

No letters column this issue. On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #98.

• - Special 25th-anniversary "frame" cover (as on all Marvel comics published this month).
• We Were Only Foolin' - The New Mutants appear here following New Mutants Annual (Marvel, 1984 series) #2. This story takes place during the days when X-Factor is believed to be a group of mutant hunters (X-Factor (Marvel, 1986 series) #1-#25).