Alpha Flight Numbers 51 to 60 Magazine Back Issues

Throughout most of its history, the team has worked for Department H, a fictitious branch of Canada’s Department of National Defence that deals with super-powered persons. Most team members have distinctly Canadian attributes, such as Inuit or First Nations heritage.

The team was originally merely a part of the backstory of the X-Men’s Wolverine but, in 1983, Byrne launched an eponymous series featuring the group, which continued until 1994. Four short-lived revivals have been attempted since, the most recent in 2011. The team most recently appeared in their own title in the one shot comic Chaos War: Alpha Flight which was published as part of the Chaos War event.