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Issue Details

Issue #23
Published May 1975
Cover Price 0.25
Pages 36
Editing Len Wein
Notes Letters page replies by Steve Gerber. Letters page letter from Dean Mullaney.

Cover Details - "...And The Snakes Shall Inherit The Earth!"

Characters Defenders [Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]; Valkyrie; Dr. Strange [Stephen Strange]]
Genre superhero
Pencils Gil Kane (signed)
Inks Klaus Janson (signed)
Notes Letters page replies by Steve Gerber. Letters page letter from Dean Mullaney.
Reprinted In Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #2

18 page Defenders, The story "..the Snakes Shall Inherit the Earth!"

Characters Defenders [Valkyrie; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]; Dr. Strange [Stephen Strange]]; Elena; Elena's baby; Sons of the Serpent; Aragorn; Yellowjacket [Dr. Hank Pym]; Wong; Clea; Jack Norriss; Harold Holliman
Synopsis Sons of the Serpent reveal their agenda and battle the Defenders, capturing Dr. Strange, Valkyrie, Yellowjacket and Nighthawk.
Genre superhero
Script Steve Gerber
Pencils Sal Buscema
Inks Vince Colletta
Colors Don Warfield
Letters June Braverman [as Junie B.]; Gaspar Saladino (page 3); typeset (page 9)
Notes Jack Norris name changed to Jack Norriss in this and all subsequent issues
Reprinted In Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #23