The New Mutants Vol. 1, No. 62
date: label: date made
content: 1988-04
name: label: maker
content: Marvel Comics
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>"The New Mutants</i> began as a 1982 spin-off of the long running Marvel Comics series <i>The X-Men.</i> Like the X-Men, the New Mutants are a group of young <i>mutants</i> born with superpowers who are often persecuted for their differences.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The cover for this 1988 issue, features the Latinx characters Empath and Magma.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Empath, a Spanish mutant named Manuel de la Rocha, has the power to sense and manipulate emotions. Magma (Amara Aquilla,) comes from a fictional colony hidden in the Amazon rainforest named Nova Roma. Her powers include the ability to control Earth's tectonic plates, assume a <i>magma form</i> that radiates light and heat, and the ability to create flame and molten projectiles.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The issue was written by Louis SImonson, and illustrated by John J Muth.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
topic: label: Subject
content: Comics
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Comic Books
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2018.0171.02
label: accession number
content: 2018.0171
label: catalog number
content: 2018.0171.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: comic book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/4 in x 6 11/16 in; 26.035 cm x 16.98625 cm