The Defenders
#4
[Regular Edition]
(February 1973)
Marvel,
1972 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.20 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1972-11-21
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Magazine Management Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Editing
- Roy Thomas (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from The Comic Reader #90, October 1972.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
Valkyrie Rides Again!
The Defenders / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Defenders [Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Valkyrie [Barbara]]; Aragorn
- Reprints
-
in Gli Albi dei Super-Eroi (Editoriale Corno, 1973 series) #28 -
in The Defenders (Yaffa / Page, 1977 series) #2 (1978) -
in Marvel Treasury Edition (Marvel, 1974 series) #16 (1978) - in Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (2005)
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Defenders (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 ([July] 2008), #1 ([July] 2008)
-
in Marvel Gold. Los Defensores: Cuatro Contra Los Dioses (Panini España, 2012 series) (Mayo 2012) - in The Defenders Omnibus (Marvel, 2020 series) #1 (2020 [June 2021])
- in Defenders Epic Collection (Marvel, 2016 series) #1 - The Day of the Defenders (2022 [February 2023]), #1 - The Day of the Defenders (2022 [February 2023])
-
Indexer Notes
Cover inker identified 2005 by Nick Caputo. Cover penciler identified 2005 by Shane Foley, confirmed by Steven Tice. Jim Starlin confirmed that he produced the cover rough for John Buscema.
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The New Defender!
The Defenders / comic story / 20 pages
- Script
- Steve Englehart (credited)
- Pencils
- Sal Buscema (credited)
- Inks
- Frank McLaughlin (credited)
- Colors
- Petra Goldberg (credited)
- Letters
- Artie Simek (credited)
- Job Number
- 1135Z
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Somewhere in the British Isles, there are brutish snarls this nippy November night...
- Feature Logo
The Dynamic Defenders!- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Defenders [Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]]; Valkyrie [Barbara] (introduction); Black Knight [Dane Whitman]; Aragorn; Executioner [Skurge]; Enchantress [Amora]; Fragon (introduction); Casiolena; Omegatron (cameo); Zeus (flashback; cameo)
- Synopsis
- Enchantress transforms Barbara into the Valkyrie and turns the Black Knight to stone. Valkyrie takes Aragorn as her horse. Omegatron down to 89 hundredths of a second.
- Reprints
-
in Rampage (Marvel UK, 1977 series) #5 -
in Etranges Aventures (Arédit-Artima, 1966 series) #41 (1er trimestre 1975) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]] - in The Defenders (Yaffa / Page, 1977 series) #2 (1978)
- in Marvel Treasury Edition (Marvel, 1974 series) #16 (1978)
- in Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (2005)
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Defenders (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 ([July] 2008)
- in Marvel Gold. Los Defensores: Cuatro Contra Los Dioses (Panini España, 2012 series) (Mayo 2012)
-
in Marvel. Официальная коллекция комиксов (Ашет Коллекция [Hachette], 2014 series) #82 - Защитники: День Защитников - in The Defenders Omnibus (Marvel, 2020 series) #1 (2020 [June 2021])
- in Defenders Epic Collection (Marvel, 2016 series) #1 - The Day of the Defenders (2022 [February 2023])
-
[no title indexed]
Defenders Dialogue / letters page / 1 page
- Feature Logo
Defenders Dialogue- Genre
- superhero
- Reprints
- in The Defenders Omnibus (Marvel, 2020 series) #1 (2020 [June 2021])
-
Indexer Notes
Letters from Robert A. Gillis, Steve Clement, and Thor Gerlach.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Valkyrie Rides Again!
The Defenders -
1.
The New Defender!
The Defenders -
2.
[no title indexed]
Defenders Dialogue
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- David B
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Steve Dasinger
- Gregory Fischer
- Kauldi Gilibert
- Mike Nielsen
- Derek Reinhard
- Tony R. Rose
- Steven Tice
- Jim Van Dore
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