(October 1974)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.25 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- Published 8 times a year.
- Indicia Publisher:
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand:
- Marvel Comics Group
- Barcode:
- ?
- Editing:
- Roy Thomas
- Format:
- Standard Modern US size; Color; Saddle-stitched; Was Ongoing Series
[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)
The Defenders / cover / 1 page (report information)
Credits
- Pencils:
- Gil Kane
- Inks:
- Frank Giacoia ?; Mike Esposito ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Defenders [Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Dr. Strange [Stephen Strange]; Valkyrie; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]]; Professor X; Brotherhood of Evil Mutants [Magneto; Blob]; Alpha the Ultimate Mutant
- Reprinted:
- In Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #2
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Defenders (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2010)
Indexer Notes
Cover inker guesses 2005 by Nick Caputo. Marvel Comics Index #3 lists Gil Kane as inker.
Alpha, the Ultimate Mutant! (Table of Contents)
The Defenders / comic story / 18 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Len Wein
- Pencils:
- Sal Buscema
- Inks:
- Mike Esposito
- Colors:
- Glynis Wein
- Letters:
- Gaspar Saladino (page 1); Charlotte Jetter
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Defenders [Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Dr. Strange [Stephan Strange]; Valkyrie]; Professor X [Charles Xavier]; Brotherhood of Evil Mutants [Magneto; Blob; Unus; Lorelei; Mastermind]; Alpha the Ultimate Mutant; Aragorn
- Synopsis:
- Magneto creates Alpha the Ultimate Mutant. Alpha turns the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants into infants.
- Reprinted:
- In Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #2
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Defenders (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2010)
["Dear Marvel, DEFENDERS #13 was well worth..."] (Table of Contents)
Defenders Dialogue / letters page / 1 page (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from readers Chuck Lane, Dave Stevens and Tom Melchiorre.
Also contains a Marvel Value Stamp Series A #44 (Absorbing Man).
Page divided over two pages, otherwise filled with promotional advertisements.
Placed between pages 11 and 12 of the main sequence.
Editing
Table of Contents
-
1.
Alpha, the Ultimate Mutant!
The Defenders -
2.
["Dear Marvel, DEFENDERS #13 was well worth..."]
Defenders Dialogue
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Ramon Schenk
- Derek Reinhard
- Mike Nielsen
- Patrick Lemaire
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Bob Klein
- Robert Wood
- Tony R. Rose
- Carl Gafford
- Lou Mazzella
- Ramon Schenk
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