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Issue Details

Issue #8
Published September 1973
Cover Price 0.20 USD
Pages 36
Editing Roy Thomas
Notes Letters page replies by Steve Englehart.

Cover Details - "Mind-Slaves of the Red Ghost!"

Characters Defenders [Valkyrie; Dr. Strange [Steven Strange]; Silver Surfer [Norrin Radd]]; Hawkeye [Clint Barton]; Red Ghost
Genre superhero
Pencils Sal Buscema
Inks Sal Buscema
Letters John Costanza
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)

15 page The Defenders story "...If Atlantis Should Fall!"

Characters Defenders [Valkyrie; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Dr. Strange [Steven Strange]; Silver Surfer [Norrin Radd]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]]; Hawkeye [Clint Barton]; Red Ghost; Unicorn (flashback); Attuma; Clea; Wong; Atlanteans; Dr. Jennings (cameo)
Synopsis Dr. Strange, Silver Surfer and Hulk free the rest of the Defenders and Hawkeye from Attuma and the Red Ghost.
Genre superhero
Script Steve Englehart
Pencils Sal Buscema
Inks Frank McLaughlin
Colors Petra Goldberg
Letters Gaspar Saladino (page 1); Charlotte Jetter
Reprinted In Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #1; in Marvel Masterworks: The Defenders (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2010)

4 page The Defenders story "Deception!!"

Characters Defenders [Silver Surfer; Hulk; Valkyrie; Sub-Mariner; Doctor Strange]; Hawkeye; Black Knight (stone); Dormammu (villain); Loki (villain)
Genre superhero
Script Steve Englehart
Pencils Sal Buscema
Inks Frank McLaughlin
Colors Petra Goldberg
Letters Charlotte Jetter
Notes The Defenders vs. the Avengers, Chapter One
Reprinted in Avengers / Defenders War (Marvel, 2002 series) #nn (March 2002); in Marvel Masterworks: The Defenders (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2010)