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Issue Details

Issue #16
Published October 1974
Cover Price 0.25
Pages 36
Editing Roy Thomas
Notes Cover inker guesses 2005 by Nick Caputo.

Cover Details

Characters Defenders [Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Dr. Strange [Stephen Strange]; Valkyrie; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]]; Professor X; Brotherhood of Evil Mutants [Magneto; Blob]; Alpha the Ultimate Mutant
Genre superhero
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Frank Giacoia ?; Mike Esposito ?
Notes Cover inker guesses 2005 by Nick Caputo.
Reprinted In Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #2; in Marvel Masterworks: The Defenders (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2010)

18 page Defenders, The story "Alpha, the Ultimate Mutant!"

Characters Defenders [Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Dr. Strange [Stephan Strange]; Valkyrie]; Professor X [Charles Xavier]; Brotherhood of Evil Mutants [Magneto; Blob; Unus; Lorelei; Mastermind]; Alpha the Ultimate Mutant; Aragorn
Synopsis Magneto creates Alpha the Ultimate Mutant. Alpha turns the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants into infants.
Genre superhero
Script Len Wein
Pencils Sal Buscema
Inks Mike Esposito
Colors Glynis Wein
Letters Gaspar Saladino (page 1); Charlotte Jetter
Reprinted In Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #2; in Marvel Masterworks: The Defenders (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2010)