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Issue Details

Issue #98
Published August 1981
Cover Price 0.50
Pages 36
Editing Al Milgrom

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Marshall Rogers(s)
Inks Marshall Rogers
Colors George Roussos
Letters typeset
Notes Cover colorist credit provided 2007 by Al Milgrom.
Reprinted in Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #5 (2010)

21 page Defenders, The story "The Hand Closes!"

Synopsis Nighthawk quits; Cliffy puts on Shadow cloak, calls himself Mandrake, says "Allakazam" and dissapears
Genre superhero
Script J.M. DeMatteis
Pencils Don Perlin (breakdowns); Joe Sinnott (finished art); Sal Trapani (finished art)
Inks Joe Sinnott (pages 1-6, 12-21); Sal Trapani (pages 7-11, uncredited)
Colors George Roussos
Letters Jim Novak
Notes Additional inker credits 2005 by Steven Tice. Page numbers are actual story pages.
Reprinted in Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #5 (2010)