Issue Details

Issue	#1
Published	August 1972
Cover Price	0.20 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Stan Lee
Notes	Cover inker identified 2005 by Nick Caputo.

Cover Details - "I Slay by the Stars!"

Characters	Defenders [Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]]; Necrodamus; The Nameless One
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Sal Buscema
Inks	Jim Mooney
Notes	Cover inker identified 2005 by Nick Caputo.
Reprinted	In Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #1; in Marvel Masterworks: The Defenders (Marvel, 2008 series) #1

20 page Defenders story "I Slay By The Stars!"

Characters	Defenders [Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Dr.Strange [Stephen Strange]]; Necrodamus; Kenneth Ward (in flashback); Nameless One (in flashback); Night-Crawler (in flashback); Omegatron (Cameo)
Synopsis	Necrodamus attempts to sacrifice Namor to The Nameless One. Omegatron starts it's countdown again.
Genre	superhero
Script	Steve Englehart
Pencils	Sal Buscema
Inks	Frank Giacoia
Letters	Artie Simek
Reprinted	In Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #1; in Marvel Masterworks: The Defenders (Marvel, 2008 series) #1