The Defenders
#21
[Regular Edition]
(March 1975)
Marvel,
1972 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Editing
- Len Wein (editor)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
Beware the Black Rain!
The Defenders / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Defenders [Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Valkyrie; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]]
- Reprints
-
in Rampage (Marvel UK, 1977 series) #20 (March 1, 1978) -
in De Verdedigers (Juniorpress, 1980 series) #11 (1981) -
in Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2006) [black and white] - in The Defenders Omnibus (Marvel, 2020 series) #2 (2023)
-
- Keywords
- rain
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Enter: The Headmen!
The Defenders / comic story / 18 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- 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.
- Reprints
-
in Hulk (Arédit-Artima, 1976 series) #8 (avril 1978) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]] - in De Verdedigers (Juniorpress, 1980 series) #11 (1981) [Pages 10, 14 omitted.]
- in Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2006) [black and white]
- in The Defenders Omnibus (Marvel, 2020 series) #2 (2023)
-
Indexer 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).
Special Bullpen Note:
Defenders Dialogue / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Steve Gerber (replies)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- superhero
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from readers G. C. Hoover, Rick Vizachero, and Jana C. Hollingsworth.
Located between pages 11 and 12 of the main sequence.
Memos and Meanderings From Your Mighty Muddled Merry-Makers!
Bullpen Bulletins / in-house column / 1 page
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Beware the Black Rain!
The Defenders -
1.
Enter: The Headmen!
The Defenders -
2.
Special Bullpen Note:
Defenders Dialogue -
3.
Memos and Meanderings From Your Mighty Muddled Merry-Makers!
Bullpen Bulletins
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Kauldi Gilibert
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Derek Reinhard
- Ramon Schenk
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