Alpha Flight

Synopsis for ”If at First You Don’t Succeed...”
Alpha Flight is engaged in a combat exercise for the CAF Special Forces in Red Deer to help test a new combining robot and some of the team begins to get unsettled by the newly returned Guardian, especially when Aurora gets injured due to his recklessness. Afterwards, Shaman and Box go to look after her while Guardian takes Puck and Talisman on to their next call to meet up with Heather and Northstar at the West Edmonton Mall, which is under attack by a group of terrorists. They only find out when they get there that the people attacking the mall are Omega Flight. Guardian has the team split up to look for their targets. Inside the mall, Puck encounters Diamond Lil, Talisman finds Flashback, and Northstar engages Wild Child. The Alphans have the upper hand until they’re each blindsided by force fields used by the Omegans’ leader. Elsewhere in the mall, Heather and Guardian find each other, but Mac frightens Heather when he starts speaking with Jerry Jaxon’s voice in a sinister tone. With Alpha Flight already halfway defeated, ”Guardian” ends his ruse and tears off his face to reveal the robot that Heather had previously met as Delphine Courtney. Even after Jaxon’s death, he continues to use Omega Flight to complete his programmed objective to destroy Alpha Flight.

Trivia
A comic chop in the West Edmonton Mall is shown with comics in the window display including The Incredible Hulk #317, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #38, Power Man and Iron Fist #119, Thor and (of course) Alpha Flight #22.

Sep 1985

Marvel

071486029670

26

1

September

1983

A

A

1

Canada

$0.75

Copper Age

Canadian

English

Magazine

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D1-26

If at First You Don’t Succeed

~$4.43

2026-02-28

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