Alpha Flight #106 Marvel Comics (1992)

Writers: Scott Lobdell

Artists: Dan Panosian, Mark Pacella

Characters: Aurora, Diamond Lil, Heather McNeil Hudson, Madison Jeffries, Major Mapleleaf, Mr. Hyde, Northstar, Puck, Sasquatch, Wild Child (+1 more)

Northstar as youve never known him before!A sixty-something retired Canadian super-hero (Canada’s first, in fact) known as Major Mapleleaf, sits alone at night in his bathrobe poring over a videotape of the press conference in which he announced his retirement several years prior. He freezes the image at a closeup of his infant son Michael, and collapses on the TV screen in anguish. At that moment in downtown Toronto, Mr. Hyde is seen battling members of Alpha Flight. Hyde strikes Northstar and sends him crashing into rows of garbage cans down an alley. To his shock, Northstar finds an abandoned newborn girl in one of those trash cans and immediately flees the scene. Mr. Hyde gloats briefly before being pounded into the ground by Sasquatch.Three weeks later, Northstar, who still insists on holding the teams debriefings in the hospital, is told by the infant’s doctor that she was born to a mother who was HIV positive and that the child, who has since been adopted by Northstar, and…

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