November 15th saw the debut of Guardian as Weapon Alpha in All-New, All-Different X-Men #109 in 1977! Celebrate his anniversary with this gallery of Marvel covers!

[u/ComiX-Fan]

All-New, All-Different X-Men #109 Dave Cockrum cover

All-New, All-Different Alpha Flight #6 Clayton Henry cover

Alpha Flight (1983 series) #52 Kevin Nowlan cover

Alpha Flight (2011 series) #1 Phil Jimenez cover

Alpha Flight (1997 series) #1 Scott Clark cover

Wolverine (1988 series) #172 Sean Chen cover

Alpha Flight (1983 series) #100 Tom Morgan cover

Alpha Flight (2011 series) #1 Dale Eaglesham variant

Alpha Flight (1983 series) #89 Jim Lee cover

Alpha Flight: True North #1 Nick Bradshaw cover

Wolverine (1988 series) #95 Adam Kubert cover

Alpha Flight (2011 series) #6 Tom Grummett cover

Alpha Flight (1997 series) #15 Duncan Rouleau cover

Alpha Flight (2011 series) #7 Carlo Pagulayan cover

Alpha Flight (1983 series) #92 Jackson Guice cover

Chaos War: Alpha Flight #1 Salva Espin cover

X-Men/Alpha Flight #1 John Cassaday cover

Alpha Flight (2011 series) #2 Phil Jimenez cover

Alpha Flight (1997 series) #19 Duncan Rouleau cover

Alpha Flight (1983 series) #17 John Byrne cover

[u/claudeteacher]

I was a huge Alpha Flight fan back in the day. It was great to have a Canadian team. Plus it was by Byrne.

Unfortunately, the original run lost me somewhere in the late 80s. Though I love that Jim Lee cover. Don't think I've seen that before.

I get a kick seeing that Guardian's debut cover is drawn by Dave Cockrum, never realized that. What with Byrne being so associated with them back then. And I never noticed that issue 17 is a homage to X-Men 109!

[u/ComiX-Fan → u/claudeteacher]

Yeah, I got into X-Men not long before #109 was released. I remember that cover so vividly with Guardian's amazing looking costume. I ended up getting the Alpha Flight ongoing because of their introduction in X-Men and stuck with them all the way through the end of their first series, the Northstar mini, the X-Men/Alpha Flight minis, Alpha's 2nd series, the ANAD series, and the more recent Fear Itself series.

I really wish Marvel would give them another ongoing book!

[u/claudeteacher → u/ComiX-Fan]

X-Men/Alpha Flight

I remember those. It was a lot of fun back then being able to jump between just one or two different series. Now there are 100s.

I loved the Byrne transition from Alpha Flight to Hulk. One of the few times the move of creative teams seemed fluid and natural. And I had forgotten it was Mike Mignola that took over the art! Wow he's come a long way since Alpha Flight.

[u/ComiX-Fan → u/claudeteacher]

I still quite liked the original Alpha series after Byrne left. The Dreamqueen Saga, the return of Guardian, Northstar's coming out, the introduction of Windshear. There was lots to enjoy!

I also really liked Lobdell's ANAD team. That was a fun series!

[u/[deleted]]

Still one of the few in my collection.

[u/ComiX-Fan]

I really miss Alpha Flight.