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Issue Details

Issue #85
Published July 1980
Cover Price 0.40 USD
Pages 36
Editing Al Milgrom
Notes Letters page replies by Ed Hannigan.

Cover Details - "Panther's Peril!"

Characters Defenders [Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Dr. Strange [Stephen Strange]; Hellcat [Patsy Walker]]; Black Panther [T'Challa]
Genre superhero
Pencils Rich Buckler (signed)
Inks Al Milgrom (signed)
Colors George Roussos
Letters typeset
Notes Cover colorist credit provided 2007 by Al Milgrom.
Reprinted In Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #4

17 page The Defenders story "Like a Proud Black Panther..."

Characters Defenders [Hellcat [Patsy Walker]; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; Clea; Valkyrie; Dr. Strange [Stephen Strange]]; Black Panther [T'Challa]; Omoro; Taku; Milton Rosenblum; Melva Oliver (newscaster); Ronga; Aragorn (Valkyrie's horse; Cameo); Mandrill [Jerome Beechman]
Synopsis Hellcat goes to the Black Panther's New York consulate to give him the news that the Defenders have been tracking the Mandrill and that the trail leads back to Wakanda. Black Panther and the Defenders narrowly escape a trap set by the Mandrill.
Genre superhero
Script Ed Hannigan
Pencils Don Perlin (breakdowns); Jim Mooney (finished art)
Inks Jim Mooney
Colors George Roussos
Letters Diana Albers
Notes Wild Kingdom on TV in Rosenblum's office.
Reprinted In Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #4