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Firestar #4 cover (1986) - Firestar

Owner: James S
Artists: Barry Windsor-Smith (All) , Tom DeFalco (Writer)

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Artwork Details

Title:	Firestar #4 cover (1986) - Firestar
Artist:	Barry Windsor-Smith (All)
Artist:	Tom DeFalco (Writer)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Cover
Views:	980
Likes on CAF:	38 39
Favorited on CAF:	1
Added to Site:	3/15/2023

Description

My biggest addition for 2023 (so far??)! The X-Men animated series got me into reading comics, but Spiderman and his Amazing Friends first introduced me to Marvel's superheroes. I can still recall the sound effects of Ice Man and Firestar's transformations.

I've lovingly seen this cover posted for a little while, and I figured now or never to get a BWS Marvel cover with a Mutant and X-men (...and Avenger and New Warrior :-p) on it. Especially one with childhood nostalgia.

I actually read the mini several years after it was released. It was better than I expected. Given the story's context, this cover image, for me, is the moment Firestar finally accepts herself for who she is as a mutant and a woman. The mini also cemented the White Queen as a heinous witch!

Let's have a moment of silence for poor Butter Rum.

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	James S ( 20 ) Premium Gallery Owner
Joined:	February 2017
Last Login:	September 2025
Country:	UNITED STATES
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