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Issue Details

Issue #40
Published October 1976
Cover Price 0.30
Pages 36
Editing Archie Goodwin
Notes Letters page replies by Steve Gerber.

Cover Details - "Mask of the Assassin?"

Characters Defenders [Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Valkyrie; Power Man [Luke Cage]; Red Guardian [Dr. Tania Belinsky]; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]]
Genre superhero
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Klaus Janson
Letters John Costanza; Dan Crespi?
Notes Letters page replies by Steve Gerber.
Reprinted In Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #3

17 page Defenders, The story "Love, Anarchy and, Oh Yes... The Assassin!"

Characters Defenders [Valkyrie; Power Man [Luke Cage]; Red Guardian [Dr. Tania Belinsky]; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]]; Jack Norriss; Matt Murdock; Clea; Wong; Dr. Strange [Stephen Strange]; Senator Winthrop; The Elf with a Gun; Committee for Free Emigration; Mrs. Rosenzweig
Synopsis The charges agains Valkyrie are dismissed thanks to some help from Matt Murdock. Valkyrie gets a new gold costume, that is given to her by Clea. Red Guardian is attacked by an anti-communist organization.
Genre superhero
Script Steve Gerber
Pencils Sal Buscema (breakdowns); Klaus Janson (finished art)
Inks Klaus Janson
Colors Klaus Janson
Letters Joe Rosen
Notes Story concludes in The Defenders Annual #1.
Reprinted In Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #3