New Mutants #26 for Sale - First Appearance of Mirage - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: New Mutants (Marvel, 2020 series)
Issue: #26
Publication date: August 2022
Key date: 2022-08-00
On-sale date: 2022-06-22
Indicia publisher: Marvel Worldwide Inc.
Price: $3.99
Pages: 32
Barcode: 75960609471402611
Rating: Rated T+

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Mirage - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Leinil Francis Yu; inks: Leinil Francis Yu; colors: Sunny Gho	Belasco, Magik, Illyana Rasputina
1	The Labors of Magik Book Two	recap	2	pencils: Leinil Francis Yu, Rod Reis; inks: Leinil Francis Yu, Rod Reis	Colossus, Magik, Mirage, Dani Moonstar, Madelyne Pryor, Piotr Rasputin, Illyana Rasputina, Rahne Sinclair, Wolfsbane
2	Best Laid Plans...	comic story	20	script: Vita Ayala; pencils: Rod Reis, Jan Duursema; inks: Rod Reis, Jan Duursema; colors: Ruth Redmond, Rod Reis; letters: VC's Travis Lanham	Colossus, Xi'an Coy Manh, Cypher, Karma, Magik, Mirage First, Madelyne Pryor, Doug Ramsey, Piotr Rasputin, Illyana Rasputina, Rahne Sinclair, Warlock, Wolfsbane
3	Warlock Log 337,402	text story	1	script: Vita Ayala
4	Magik's Outpost Journal, Entry 52	text story	1	script: Vita Ayala
5	The Third Labor!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Leinil Francis Yu; inks: Leinil Francis Yu

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
Maria Wolf Cover	barcode 75960609471402631
Carmen Carnero Cover	barcode 75960609471402621
Carmen Carnero Virgin Art	barcode 75960609471402641

Where to read it

Collection	Year
New Mutants by Vita Ayala #3 ISBN 978-1-302-93120-9	2022	On eBay ›

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Series context

‹ #2526 of 33#27 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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