| Release: | Dec 31, 1985 |
| Cover: | Apr 1986 |
A Friend In Need
| Release: | Dec 31, 1985 |
| Cover: | Apr 1986 |
Marrina, still a monster (since iss. 16) flees Attuma's vessel. She screams with abdominal pains, which are sympathetically felt by Snowbird. Heather flies across Canada to the X-Men in Westchester and is knocked out by Magneto, attacking from reflex. Storm leaves her in Wolverine's hands. Heather explains that she wants Wolverine to teach her to fight, and they reminisce. A feral Logan had attacked Heather and Mac on their honeymoon, and they shot him dead, but he got better. Mac went for help, while Heather stayed with Logan. They both saw his claws for the first time, which put Logan in such a state that Heather just held him all night to comfort him. He was adopted by them, until he realized she wouldn't leave Mac for him, so he left, instead. Wolverine tells her that being a hero doesn't mean having powers, and just then they are attacked by Deathstrike's samurai.
| Writer | Bill Mantlo |
| Cover Artist | Mike Mignola |
| Penciller | Sal Buscema |
| Inker | Gerry Talaoc |
| Colorist | Bob Sharen |
| Letterer | Jim Novak |
| Editor | Carl Potts |
| Editor in Chief | Jim Shooter |
| Colossus | Piotr 'Peter' Nikolaievitch Rasputin |
| Nightcrawler | Kurt Wagner |
| Shadowcat | Katherine 'Kitty' Pryde |
| Rogue | Anna Marie Raven |
| Magneto | Max / Erik Magnus Eisenhardt / Lehnsherr |
| Northstar | Jean-Paul Beaubier |
| Puck | Eugene Milton Judd |
| Aurora | Jeanne-Marie Beaubier |
| Lady Deathstrike | Yuriko Oyama |
| Snowbird | Narya / Anne McKenzie |
| Madison Jeffries | |
| Vindicator | Heather McNeil-Hudson |
| Attuma | |
| Marrina | Marrina Smallwood |
| Box | Roger Bochs |
| Rachel Summers | |
| Doug Thompson |
| Age | Bronze Age |
|---|---|
| Format | Comic |
| Series Group | Alpha Flight |
| Genre | Adventure | Super-Heroes |
| No. of Pages | 32 |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |