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Issue: Defenders Epic Collection #2
Publication Date: January 2004
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Issues: #2 of 6 Issues
Title: Enter - The Headmen
Variant: unnamed
Rating: T
Publisher: FlagMarvel
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Indicia Publisher: Marvel Worldwide Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/26/2024
Volume: 2
Pages: 468
ISBN: 9781302955311
UPC/EAN: 978130295531154499
Price: $56.25 CAD
$44.99 USD
Indicia Frequency: T
Content Items: 69 (29 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Cover title and spine title are "Defenders Epic Collection: Enter: The Headmen". Collects The Defenders (Marvel, 1972 series) #12-25, Giant-Size Defenders (Marvel, 1974 series) #1-4, Marvel Two-In-One (Marvel, 1974 series) #6-7 and material from Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #7.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.
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Binding: trade paperback
Publishing Format: collected edition
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[untitled]

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Epic Collection

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The Defenders: Enter: the Headmen

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Enter: The Headmen

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The Titan Strikes Again!

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Character(s): Defenders [Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Valkyrie [Barbara]]; Xemnu the Titan
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The Titan Strikes Back!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Defenders [Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Valkyrie [Barbara]]; Aragorn; Wong; Xemnu the Titan [also as Amos Moses]; Sub-Mariner [Namor] (flashback); Enchantress [Amora] (flashback)
First Line: To look at him, you would not think that the Emerald Behemoth who lumbers this day thru the great amearican heartland...
Synopsis: Xemnu the Titan returns and takes over a small town before being stopped by the Defenders.
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Disclose Notes: Dr. Strange gives Valkyrie Dragonfang, carved by Wizard Kahji-Da from the tusk of a beast he slew.
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Giant-Size Defenders #1

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Character(s): Defenders [Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Silver Surfer [Norrin Radd]]
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The Way They Were! [Prologue]

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Character(s): Defenders [Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Valkyrie [Barbara]]; Clea; Wong
Synopsis: Valkyrie learns the origins of the Hulk, Namor and Doctor Strange and the Defenders stop Rasputin.
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[The Way They Were] Part 1: Banished to Outer Space

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Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner] (origin); Rick Jones; Thunderbolt Ross
First Line: The Hulk is just beginning to learn what it is to be so hated...
Synopsis: The military captures Rick and Ross convinces him that they need the Hulk to test a new experimental rocket for national security. Rick tricks the jade giant into the capsule but once it is shot into space, he realizes that Ross deceived him to get rid of his foe. Rick overrides the programming and returns the rocket to earth but not before Banner (he transformed back to his human form when the rocket came into view of the sun) is doused with further radiation. The Hulk is now unable to revert to his human form and is under Rick's control but only while Rick remains awake.
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The Way They Were!, Interlude 1

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Character(s): Defenders [Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Valkyrie [Barbara]]; Clea; Wong
First Line: That was amazing Clea.
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[The Way They Were] Part 2: Bird of Prey!

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Character(s): Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Fen
First Line: --and though not yet Monarch, still was Namor a warrior born!
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The Way They Were!, Interlude 2

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Character(s): Defenders [Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Valkyrie [Barbara]]; Clea; Wong
First Line: His words and mannerisms are so different from the Namor I know, Clea.
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[The Way They Were] Part 3, To Catch a Magician!

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Character(s): Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Mister Rasputin (introduction)
First Line: You see Dr. Strange following a desperate battle in the Twilight Dimension.
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[The Way They Were] Part 4: The Once and Again Dooms

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Character(s): Defenders [Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Valkyrie [Barbara]]; Clea; Wong; Mister Rasputin
First Line: Witness: the effects of Clea's miscast spell...
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Good Evening! This is the Eleventh-Hour Bullpen!

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Character(s): Defenders [Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]]
First Line: You've probably been all thru this movie before.
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Character(s): Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff]; Thor [Donald Blake]; Vision]
First Line: The Mighty Avengers! The fabled All-Winners Squad!
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The Dynamic Defenders!

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Character(s): Defenders [Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Silver Surfer [Norrin Radd]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Valkyrie [Barbara]]
First Line: Here it is! For those of you who claimed our dazzling Defenders pin-up a few months back...
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The Squadron Sinister Strikes Again!

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Character(s): Defenders [Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]]; Squadron Sinister [Hyperion; Whizzer [Jim Sanders]; Doctor Spectrum]
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Disclose Notes: Joe Sinnott's records indicate he inked this cover, but Nick Caputo believes that is an error. Marvel Comics Index #3 lists Frank Giacoia as inker, as did the original indexer.
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For Sale: One Planet--Slightly Used!

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Character(s): Defenders [Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Valkyrie [Barbara]]; Aragorn; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]; Squadron Sinister [Doctor Spectrum [Billy Roberts]; Hyperion; Whizzer [Jim Sanders]; Nebulon (introduction); Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]] (flashback)
First Line: Greenwich Village: the neighborhood's gained quite a reputation over the years.
Synopsis: After deciding to go straight Nighthawk comes to the Defenders for assistance in helping stop the Squadron Sinister from destroying the planet for Nebulon.
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Nebulon! The Man Who Bought the Earth!

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And Who Shall Inherit the Earth?

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Character(s): Defenders [Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Valkyrie [Barbara]; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]]; Squadron Sinister [Doctor Spectrum [Billy Roberts]; Hyperion; Whizzer [Jim Sanders]; Nebulon (also as Celestial Man); Thor [Donald Blake] (flashback)
First Line: Attention! The planet Sol-III (called Earth), having been duly purchased by one Nebulon...
Synopsis: The Defenders stop the Squadron Sinister and Nebulon from destroying the Earth.
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Panic at the Earth's Core!

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Panic Beneath the Earth!

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First Line: Pastime for a rainy afternoon: a personally-guided tour of the fabulous Sanctum Sanctorum...
Synopsis: The Defenders battle against the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. During the battle Magneto finishes his creation of Alpha the Ultimate Mutant.
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Disclose Notes: Nighthawk gets a new uniform; Comet Kohoutek upsets the balance of magnetic forces so Magneto freed himself.
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The Defenders #16

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Alpha, the Ultimate Mutant!

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First Line: Defenders, you've pursued me here, deep into the Carlsbad Caverns...
Synopsis: Magneto creates Alpha the Ultimate Mutant. Alpha turns the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants into infants.
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From Hell It Came-- To Seek Out the Son of Satan!

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Character(s): Defenders [Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]; Valkyrie [Barbara]]; Son of Satan [Daimon Hellstrom]; Satannish
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H...as in Hulk...Hell...and Holocaust!

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Character(s): Defenders [Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]; Valkyrie [Barbara]]; Aragorn; Son of Satan [Daimon Hellstrom]; Asmodeus [Charles Benton]; Satannish; Laurox the Lecherous; Mechanoid (robot soldier)
Synopsis: The Defenders, with the help of the Son of Satan, stop Asmodeus and Satannish.
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The One, the Only Power Man!

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Character(s): Defenders [Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]]; Power Man [Luke Cage]
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Power Play!

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Character(s): Defenders [Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]; Valkyrie [Barbara]]; Aragorn; J. C. Pennysworth; Power Man [Luke Cage]; Walter; Wrecking Crew [Wrecker [Dirk Garthwaite]; Bulldozer [Henry Camp] (introduction); Piledriver [Brian Calusky] (introduction); Thunderball [Eliot Franklin] (introduction)] (introduction)
First Line: The scene: Long Island-- a secluded riding academy on the Nassau/Suffolk border...
Synopsis: Valkyrie leaves the team to learn more about Barbara, the girl the Enchantress bonded with her. Hulk, upset that Val left the team, also leaves. The remaining Defenders, Dr. Strange and Nighthawk, along with Power Man who was hired by Pennyworth, try to stop the Wrecking Crew from destroying a skyscraper that is owned by Kyle Richmond.
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Disclose Notes: Hulk's story continues in Marvel Team-up (Marvel, 1972 series) #27
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The Defenders on a Rampage!

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Character(s): Defenders [Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]]; Power Man [Luke Cage]; Wrecking Crew [Wrecker [Dirk Garthwaite]; Bulldozer [Henry Camp]; Piledriver [Brian Calusky]; Thunderball [Eliot Franklin]]
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Rampage!

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Character(s): Defenders [Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]]; Power Man [Luke Cage]; Valkyrie [Barbara]; Wrecking Crew [Wrecker [Dirk Garthwaite]; Bulldozer [Henry Camp]; Piledriver [Brian Calusky]; Thunderball [Eliot Franklin]] (origin); Thor (cameo flashback); Nameless One (cameo flashback)
First Line: In the finest tradition of Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy and , of course, the Rawhide Kid...
Synopsis: The Defenders, with Hulk rejoining them, and Power Man battle the Wrecking Crew. The villains are actually looking for Thunderball's "gizmo". Valkyrie is in Cobbler's Roost, Vermont looking for information on Barbara.
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Disclose Notes: Hulk story continues from Marvel Team-Up (Marvel, 1972 series) #27.
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Doomball!

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Character(s): Defenders [Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]]; Power Man [Luke Cage]; Wrecking Crew [Wrecker [Dirk Garthwaite]; Bulldozer [Henry Camp]; Piledriver [Brian Calusky]; Thunderball [Eliot Franklin]]
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Doomball!

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Character(s): Defenders [Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]]; Power Man [Luke Cage]; Joey; Wrecking Crew [Wrecker [Dirk Garthwaite]; Bulldozer [Henry Camp]; Piledriver [Brian Calusky]; Thunderball [Eliot Franklin]]; J. C. Pennysworth (flashback)
First Line: Freeze-frame: a moment ago, these eight men were locked in mortal combat.
Synopsis: After taking Thunderball's Gamma Bomb from the Wrecking Crew the Defenders have to figure out how to defuse it.
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Death Be Thy Destiny!

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Character(s): The Thing [Ben Grimm]; Dr. Strange [Stephen Strange]
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Death-Song of Destiny!

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Character(s): Dr. Strange [Dr. Stephen Strange]; Clea; The Thing [Ben Grimm]; Mrs. Coogan; Wong; Renee Goldenberg; Sheldon Goldenberg; Alvin Denton; Nick Cromer; Duff Coogan; Destiny; Yancy Street Gang
First Line: The subways of Manhattan's lower east side have a hollow feel about them after midnight...
Synopsis: A mysterious woman is struck by a subway train, releasing the mystic power to bystanders to reveal their destiny.
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Marvel Two-In-One #7

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Character(s): the Thing [Ben Grimm]; Valkyrie [Barbara Norris]; Executioner
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Disclose Notes: Letters credit for Danny Crespi credit per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Gaspar Saladino. Crespi credit confirmed by Todd Klein from Crespi's files (posted on Comics History Exchange on Facebook 23 August 2016).
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Name That Doom!

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Character(s): Valkyrie [Barbara Norris]; Aragorn; the Thing [Ben Grimm]; Dr. Strange [Doctor Stephen Strange]; Clea (flashback); Executioner; Enchantress [Amora]; Alvin Denton; Nick Cromer (flashback, cameo); Duff Coogan (flashback, cameo); Sheldon Goldenberg (flashback, cameo); Renee Goldenberg (flashback, cameo); Destiny (flashback, cameo)
First Line: The first rays of dawn dapple the man-made haze over Manhattan...
Synopsis: The Thing and Valkyrie stop Enchantress and the Executioner. The Thing saves the world with a supernatural harmonica.
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Disclose Notes: Although uncredited Frank Giacoia also assisted in inking this story. Info per Nick Caputo, July 2017.
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The Defenders #20

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Character(s): The Defenders [Valkyrie; Dr. Strange [Stephen Strange]]; Thing [Ben Grimm]; Nameless Ones
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Disclose Notes: GCD Editor Tony Rose challenges the original indexer's pencil credit for Gil Kane (19 April 2006). Marvel Comics Index #3 lists Gil Kane as penciler, John Romita as inker and possibly Mike Esposito as inker.
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The Woman She Was...!

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Character(s): The Defenders [Valkyrie; Dr. Strange [Stephen Strange]; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]]; Thing [Ben Grimm]; Executioner; Enchantress [Amora]; Alvin Denton; Clea (in flashback); Van Nyborg; Sister Celestia [Celestia Denton]; Nameless Ones
Synopsis: The Thing and the Defenders battle the Nameless Ones and Van Nyborg.
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Disclose Notes: Continues from Marvel Two-In-One (Marvel, 1974 series) #7
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Beware the Black Rain!

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Character(s): The Defenders [Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Valkyrie; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]]
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Enter: The Headmen!

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Character(s): The Defenders [Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]; Valkyrie; Hulk [Bruce Banner]]; Thing [Ben Grimm] (Cameo); Headmen [Gorilla-Man [Arthur Nagan]; Jerold Morgan; Chondu the Mystic]; Mrs. Lafferty; Trixie Starr; Clea
Synopsis: The Headmen unleash a wave of madness over the city to distract everyone while the commit jewel robberies.
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Disclose Notes: The Headmen are characters from three 1950s Marvel stories, further developed by Steve Gerber after those stories were reprinted in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #7 (December 1974).
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When the Grandmaster plays-- the prize is Earth!

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Character(s): The Defenders [Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Dr. Strange [Stephen Strange]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Valkyrie (Inset only)]; Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; Grandmaster; Takkor; Teju; Chiroptera
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Games Godlings Play!

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Character(s): The Defenders [Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Dr. Strange [Stephen Strange]; Valkyrie]; Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; Grandmaster; Kang (in flashback); The Avengers [Goliath; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Thor] (in flashback); Squadron Sinister [Hyperion; Dr. Spectrum; Whizzer; Nighthawk] (in flashback); Dr. Doom (in flashback); Nick Fury (in flashback); Prime Mover; Aragorn; Takkor; Grott, the Man-Slayer; Korvac (introduction); Chiroptera; Teju; Dumog
Synopsis: The Grandmaster and the Prime Mover play a game for the fate of the Earth. The Grandmaster selects the Defenders for his "pieces" and the Prime Mover selects several alien "pieces" and combat begins.
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Once More... The Squadron Sinister!

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Character(s): The Defenders [Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Dr. Strange [Stephen Strange]; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]]; Squadron Sinister [Hyperion; Whizzer; Dr. Spectrum]; Yellowjacket [Dr. Hank Pym]
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Too Cold a Night For Dying!

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Character(s): The Defenders [Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]; Dr. Strange [Stephen Strange]; Valkyrie; Hulk [Bruce Banner]]; Trixie Starr [also as Trish Starr]; Dr. James Wynter; Yellowjacket [Dr. Hank Pym]; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]; Egghead; Aragorn; Squadron Sinister [Hyperion; Whizzer; Dr. Spectrum]
Synopsis: The Defenders and Yellowjacket are on the trail of Egghead, who planted a bomb in the car of Kyle Richmond and injured both Richmond and Trixie Starr.
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Disclose Notes: Trish Starr loses her left arm. McGregor and Slifer credits from the letters page to Giant-Size Defenders #5.
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The Sons of the Serpent Strike!

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Character(s): The Defenders [Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]]; Sons of the Serpent
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Fangs of Fire and Blood!

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Character(s): The Defenders [Valkyrie; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]; Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]]; Ginny; Harold Holliman; Elena; Elena's baby; Wong; Clea; Sons of the Serpent; Amos Ferret; Mrs. Washington
Synopsis: Valkyrie learns about life among the poor, Nighthawk discovers he'd rather spend time with the Defenders than with his old crowd. The Sons of the Serpent begin to terrorize the poor.
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Disclose Notes: Uncredited inking assistance by Frank Giacoia. Info per Nick Caputo, July 2017.
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...And the Snakes Shall Inherit the Earth!

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..the Snakes Shall Inherit the Earth!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Elena; Elena's baby; Sons of the Serpent; Harold Holliman
Synopsis: Sons of the Serpent reveal their agenda and battle the Defenders, capturing Dr. Strange, Valkyrie, Yellowjacket and Nighthawk.
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Disclose Notes: Jack Norris name changed to Jack Norriss in this and all subsequent issues.
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The Defenders #24

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Character(s): The Defenders [Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Dr. Strange [Stephen Strange]; Valkyrie; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]; Yellowjacket [Hank Pym]; Power Man [Luke Cage]; Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; Son of Satan [Diamon Hellstrom]]; Sons of the Serpent
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--In the Jaws of the Serpent!

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Character(s): The Defenders [Dr. Strange [Stephen Strange]; Valkyrie; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Yellowjacket [Hank Pym]; Son of Satan [Daimon Hellstrom]; Power Man [Luke Cage]; Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; Silver Surfer [Norrin Radd] (cameo); Namor the Sub-Mariner (cameo); Hawkeye [Clint Barton](cameo)]; Sons of the Serpent; Clea; Wong; Jack Norriss; Elena
Synopsis: With most of the Defenders captured by the Sons of the Serpent, Clea recruits more heroes to help stop the Sons of the Serpent.
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Three Stand Beside Them!

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The Serpent Sheds Its Skin

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Character(s): Sons of the Serpent; Tom Pritchett; Linda Pritchett; J. C. Pennysworth
Synopsis: Son of Satan and Power Man free the rest of the Defenders and follow the clues to find the person behind the Sons of the Serpent organization. The Elf with a gun kills Tom and Linda Pritchett.
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Disclose Notes: Serpents underwater headquarters leads to J. C. Pennysworth's office (Trustee of Kyle Richmond (Nighthawk).
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[untitled]

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The Apes That Walked Like Men!

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Dr. Arthur Nagan
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It Walks Erect!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Dr. Arthur Nagan
Synopsis: A doctor who transplants ape organs into men to make them healthy is captured by apes who remove his head and place it on a gorilla's body.
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Job Number: [E-699]
Disclose Notes: Dr. Arthur Nagan next appears in Defenders (Marvel, 1972 series) #21.
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Prisoner of the Fantastic Fog

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Dr. Jerold Morgan; Sam Morgan
Synopsis: A man asks his gangster brother for money to perfect his shrink gas but when he can't get any he vents the gas outside and his brother walks into it and shrinks. He turns himself in to a police man but the effect is only temporary since the gas is not perfected.
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Job Number: [M-644]
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The Wrath of Chondu!

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Chondu [Harvey Schlemerman] (introduction); Joe Parker
Synopsis: A mystic is accosted by an escaped convict on the road, but mentally sends him to Limbo.
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Job Number: [T-624]
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. Chondu next appears in Defenders (Marvel, 1972 series) #21 (March 1975).
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Giant-Size Defenders #1 House Ad from July 1974 Titles

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The Defenders #17 House Ad from November 1974 Titles

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Mighty Marvel Calendar for 1975 February Art

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Mighty Marvel Calendar for 1975 February Page

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The Defenders #20 Cover Original Art

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The Defenders #21 Page 8 Original Art

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Giant-Size Defenders #1 Cover Original Art

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Epic Collection

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Disclose Notes: Promo ad for other issues in the Epic Collection series of titles.
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Steve Gerber Revolutionizes the Defenders!

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Disclose Notes: Promo ad for the contents reprinted in this issue. Appears on the back cover.

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