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Issue Details

Issue #9
Published October 1973
Cover Price 0.20
Pages 36
Editing Roy Thomas

Cover Details

Characters Defenders (Hulk, Sub-Mariner, Doctor Strange); Iron Man; Hawkeye
Genre superhero
Pencils Sal Buscema
Inks Sal Buscema
Letters Gaspar Saladino
Reprinted in Avengers / Defenders War (Marvel, 2002 series) #nn (March 2002); in Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #1; in Marvel Masterworks: The Defenders (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2010)

19 page Defenders, The story "Divide...and Conquer"

Characters F: Defenders [Doctor Strange; Silver Surfer; Valkyrie]; V: ; GS: Avengers [Vision; Scarlet Witch; Mantis; Black Panther; Iron Man; Thor; Swordsman; Captain America; Hawkeye]; GA: Black Knight (stone); Aragorn
Synopsis Iron Man fights Hawkeye and Dr. Strange fights Black Panther and Mantis.
Genre superhero
Script Steve Englehart
Pencils Sal Buscema
Inks Frank McLaughlin
Colors Petra Goldberg
Letters Artie Simek
Notes Chapter 4, 5 and 6 of Defenders vs Avengers
Reprinted in Avengers / Defenders War (Marvel, 2002 series) #nn (March 2002); in Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #1; in Marvel Masterworks: The Defenders (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2010)