Fallen Angels (comics)

Fallen Angels
Cover to Fallen Angels #1 (April 1987). Art by Kerry Gammill.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Limited series
No. of issues	8
Main character(s)	Vanisher Gomi Ariel Chance Sunspot Siryn Multiple Man duplicates Boom-Boom Moon-Boy Devil Dinosaur Warlock
Creative team
Created by	Jo Duffy and Kerry Gammill

Fallen Angels is a team of fictional comic book superhuman teenagers in the Marvel Comics universe. A spin-off of The New Mutants, the series starred Sunspot and Warlock along with the character Boom-Boom from X-Factor, along with several additional characters, many of whom were obscure Marvel figures.

The team's only appearances were in the Fallen Angels eight-issue limited series, written by Jo Duffy, which ran from April 1987 to November 1987. The series was originally titled Misfits. Early ads and solicitations for the series showed this title shortly before it was released. A second mini-series was planned but never published.

The group formed after Sunspot accidentally injured fellow New Mutant Cannonball, during a soccer game. Shunned by his teammates, Sunspot left the team and was followed by the techno-organic alien entity Warlock. While living on the streets, the group befriended a young Korean girl named Chance, who had the ability to randomly enhance or inhibit the abilities of other mutants and Ariel, a teleportor that could turn doors into temporary gateways with her powers. Ariel and Chance lived with the longtime X-Men villain the Vanisher, who had reinvented himself as a Fagin-style mentor to a group of pickpockets that included Chance and Ariel. They were soon joined by Multiple Man and Siryn, two X-Men allies who were sent to locate the wayward New Mutants, and Vanisher's former star thief Boom Boom, whom Ariel recruited after a fight with Iceman. The group soon picked up several additional non-mutant members, a cyborg named Gomi and his two cybernetically enhanced psychic lobsters Bill and Don, and Moon-Boy and Devil Dinosaur, the later of whom accidentally stepped on and killed the psychic lobster Bill.