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Issue Details

Issue #268
Published April 1982
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.60 USD
Pages 36
Editing Lance Tooks (Assistant Editor); Jim Salicrup (Editor); Jim Shooter (Editor-in-Chief)

Cover Details - "Captain America With the Defenders Beside Him!"

Characters Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Defenders [Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]; Valkyrie; Hellcat; Gargoyle]
Genre superhero
Pencils Mike Zeck (signed)
Inks John Beatty (signed)
Letters Rick Parker?
Reprinted in Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #5 (2010)

22 page Captain America story "Peace On Earth--Good Will To Man"

Characters FEATURE: Captain America [Steve Rogers]; GUESTS: Bernie Rosenthal; Dum Dum Dugan; Defenders [Hellcat; Valkyrie; Gargoyle; Kyle Richmond [Nighthawk]]; VILLAIN: August Masters; CAMEO FLASHBACK: Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Giant-Man; Bucky Barnes; Falcon; Morgan MacNeil Hardy; Nazis
Synopsis Cap gets a psychic distress signal from a woman he rescued from Morgan Hardy and enters the complex of August Masters who plans on using the powers of the world's foremost psychics to start World War III; Finding the Defenders already captured, Cap helps in their rescue and stays behind to cover their escape; Rather than watch everyone in the complex die from Masters' self destruct mechanism, Cap and the Defenders allow themselves to be taken prisoner once again.
Genre superhero
Script J.M. DeMatteis
Pencils Mike Zeck
Inks John Beatty
Colors Bob Sharen
Letters Jim Novak
Notes cont'd between DEFENDERS #105 / 106; Steve and Bernie go to see Raiders of the Lost Ark and Steve dismisses Indiana Jones as an amoral hero.
Reprinted in Capitaine America (Editions Héritage, 1970 series) #126/127; in Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #5 (2010)

Half page statement of ownership "Statement of Ownership"

Letters typeset
Notes Statement of Ownership average # of copies in preceding 12 months: 318,939.