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Issue Details

Issue #86
Published August 1980
Cover Price 0.40 USD
Pages 36
Editing Al Milgrom

Cover Details - "Quiet Riot in Times Square!"

Characters Defenders [Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Hellcat [Patsy Walker]]; Black Panther [T'Challa]
Genre superhero
Pencils Rich Buckler (signed)
Inks Al Milgrom (signed)
Colors George Roussos
Letters typeset
Notes Cover initialed "RB - AM" below a sign in the upper left. Cover colorist credit provided 2007 by Al Milgrom.
Reprinted In Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #4

18 page The Defenders story "The Left Hand of Silence!"

Characters Defenders [Valkyrie; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]; Hellcat [Patsy Walker]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Dr. Strange [Stephen Strange]]; Aragorn (Valkyrie's horse); Milton Rosenblum; Black Panther [T'Challa]; Mr. Rangert; Klevshin; Mandrill [Jerome Beechman]; Artie Gumm (Cabdriver); Luis (child); Luis' mother; J.D. Waldner; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards] (Cameo); Invisible Girl [Sue Richards] (Cameo)
Synopsis Black Panther and the Defenders search New York for a device stolen from Wakanda that will create complete silence. When the device is accidentally turned on it creates a riot.
Genre superhero
Script Ed Hannigan
Pencils Don Perlin
Inks Pablo Marcos
Colors Bob Sharen
Letters Michael Higgins
Notes Story title from Ursula K. LeGuin's book "The Left Hand of Darkness" revealed in the letters page of Defenders #91.
Reprinted In Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #4