The Defenders
#59
(May 1978)
Marvel,
1972 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.35 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1978-02-14
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Barcode
- 0714860215205
- Editing
- Archie Goodwin (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
Tyranny and Mutation!
The Defenders / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Defenders [Hellcat [Patsy Walker]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]; Valkyrie [Barbara Norriss]]; Aragorn
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Cover blurb refers to the Blue Oyster Cult.
Xenogenesis Day of the Demons Part 2 Tyranny and Mutation
The Defenders / comic story / 17 pages
- Script
- David Anthony Kraft (credited as David A. Kraft); Ed Hannigan (credited)
- Pencils
- Ed Hannigan (credited)
- Inks
- Dan Green (credited) (finisher)
- Colors
- David Anthony Kraft (credited as David A. Kraft)
- Letters
- Joe Rosen (credited)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Defenders [Devil-Slayer [Eric Payne]; Hellcat [Patsy Walker]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]; Red Guardian [Tania Belinsky]; Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Valkyrie [Barbara Norriss]]; Agent of Fortune; Aragorn; Belathauzer (introduction); Dollar Bill [Aaron English]; Vera Gemini; Ort-Beast (introduction); Harvester of Eyes cult; Fyodr (scientist); Vladimer (scientist)
- Synopsis
- Nighthawk test out his new jetpack. Dr. Strange is trapped in a demon dimension by the Harvester of Eyes cult.
- Reprints
-
in Hulk (Arédit-Artima, 1976 series) #19 (janvier 1982) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]] -
in Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2007)
-
- Keywords
- Cat Suit; Dragonfang; Eye of Agamotto; Greenwich Village; Hellcatmobile; Long Island; Manhattan; Mexico; Moscow; New York City; Richmond Riding Academy; Russia; Sanctum Sanctorum; Shadow Cloak; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Indexer Notes
The title of this issue is taken from an album by the band Blue Oyster Cult. Many other BOC references are sprinkled throughout the story. This information 2005 by Steven Tice.
Credits also read: "Dedicated to Transmaniacon M.C.".
[no title indexed]
Defenders Dialogue / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- David Anthony Kraft (replies)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- From where we sit, it looks as if...
- Genre
- superhero
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from readers M. E. Robbins, Commander Quotey (and His Lost Marvel Madmen), Wallace L. Hopkins, and Alain Lapalme.
Placed between pages 11 and 12 of the main sequence.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Tyranny and Mutation!
The Defenders -
1.
Xenogenesis Day of the Demons Part 2 Tyranny and Mutation
The Defenders -
2.
["From where we sit, it looks as if..."]
Defenders Dialogue -
3.
[no title indexed]
Bullpen Bulletins -
4.
Thor Meets a Glutton for Gold
Hostess Twinkies; Thor
This issue was most recently modified by:
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- Clayton Graham
- Katie
- Antonio Pontes Junior
- Mike Nielsen
- Merlin Haas
- Ramon Schenk
- Peter Croome
- Steven Tice
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