Speedball replaced by Namorita in the New Mutants Annual #9?

It’s true! This was a great find by Toshi Alibudbud, who posted this on the New Warriors Dot Com Facebook group!

Toshi wrote:

Originally, the New Mutants annual had Speedball as their guest-star instead of Namorita; they were supposed to defend Avengers Island from Tyrak and U-man. Also, Terry Shoemaker was supposed to be the artist instead of Rob Liefeld.
After reading this, the final panel of Avengers Annual #18 finally made sense.
Source: Newsline, 1989

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