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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published [October] 1976
Cover Price 0.50
Pages 52
Editing Archie Goodwin

Cover Details - "In Final Battle!"

Characters Defenders [Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond; Valkyrie; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Red Guardian [Dr. Tania Belinsky]; Power Man [Luke Cage]]
Genre superhero
Pencils Ed Hannigan?
Inks Klaus Janson
Reprinted In Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #3

35 page Defenders, The story "World Gone Sane?"

Characters Defenders [Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]; Valkyrie; Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Power Man [Luke Cage]; Red Guardian [Dr. Tania Belinsky]; Headmen [Gorilla Man [Arthur Nagan]; Ruby Thursday; Chondu the Mystic; Dr. Jerold Morgan]; Nebulon (Flashback); Jack Norris; President Gerald Ford; Plant Man [Sam Smithers] (Flashback; Cameo); Eel [Leopold Stryke] (Flashback; Cameo); Porcupine [Alex Gentry] (Flashback; Cameo); Ludberdites (Aliens)
Synopsis Red Guardian and Nighthawk travel to France to stop Nebulon's Bozos and are captured by the Headmen. Power Man and Valkyrie travel to India to battle the Headmen and are captured and shrunken to inches tall. Jack Norriss confronts Ruby Tuesday and is captured. The Headmen capture Dr. Strange and Nebulon. Hulk attacks the Headmen and rescuse the rest of the Defenders and Nebulon gives up his quest to take over the Earth.
Genre superhero
Script Steve Gerber
Pencils Sal Buscema (breakdowns); Klaus Janson (finished art)
Inks Klaus Janson
Colors Don Warfield
Letters John Costanza
Notes Valkyrie in gold costume
Reprinted In Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #3