- Script:
- Steve Englehart
- Pencils:
- Sal Buscema
- Inks:
- Frank McLaughlin
- Colors:
- Petra Goldberg
- Letters:
- Gaspar Saladino (page 1); Charlotte Jetter
- Job Number:
- 1513Z
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Defenders [Valkyrie; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Doctor Strange [Steven Strange]; Silver Surfer [Norrin Radd]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]]; Hawkeye [Clint Barton]; Red Ghost; Unicorn (flashback); Attuma; Clea; Wong; Atlanteans; Dr. Jennings (cameo)
- Synopsis:
- Doctor Strange, Silver Surfer and Hulk free the rest of the Defenders and Hawkeye from Attuma and the Red Ghost.
- Reprinted:
- in Etranges Aventures (Arédit-Artima, 1966 series) #49 (1975)
- in Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #1
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Defenders (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2010)
Story continues from Marvel Premiere (Marvel, 1972 series) #10.
- Script:
- Steve Englehart
- Pencils:
- Sal Buscema
- Inks:
- Frank McLaughlin
- Colors:
- Petra Goldberg
- Letters:
- Charlotte Jetter
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Defenders [Silver Surfer; Hulk; Valkyrie; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Doctor Strange]; Hawkeye; Black Knight (stone); Dormammu (villain); Loki (villain)
- Reprinted:
- in Etranges Aventures (Arédit-Artima, 1966 series) #49 (1975)
- in Avengers / Defenders War (Marvel, 2002 series) #[nn] (March 2002)
- in Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #1
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Defenders (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2010)
- in Marvel Classic (Panini Comics (fr), 2011 Series) #4 (November 2011)
The Defenders versus the Avengers, Chapter One.
- Script:
- Steve Englehart
- Letters:
- typeset
Letters of comment from readers Robert Lowrey, Christopher Coleman and Mark H. Kernes.