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Issue Details

Issue #41
Published November 1976
Cover Price 0.30
Pages 36
Editing Archie Goodwin
Notes Letters page replies (and two faux letters) by Steve Gerber. Last issue scripted by Gerber. Cover inker credit derived from The Comic Reader 134, August 1976.

Cover Details

Characters Defenders [Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Dr. Strange [Stephen Strange]; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]]
Genre superhero
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Dan Adkins
Letters Dan Crespi
Notes Letters page replies (and two faux letters) by Steve Gerber. Last issue scripted by Gerber. Cover inker credit derived from The Comic Reader 134, August 1976.
Reprinted In Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #3

17 page Defenders, The story "Intruder in the Sand!"

Characters Defenders [Dr. Strange [Stephen Strange]; Valkyrie; Red Guardian [Dr. Tania Belinsky]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]]; Aragorn; Clea; David Anthony; Trish Starr; Shazanna; Jack Norriss
Synopsis Shazanna uses Trish Starr to lure Dr. Strange and Nighthawk into a trap in her plan to take over this dimension.
Genre superhero
Script Steve Gerber
Pencils Sal Buscema (layouts); Klaus Janson (finished art)
Inks Klaus Janson
Colors Don Warfield
Letters Gaspar Saladino (page one); Denise Wohl
Notes Valkyrie in white costume; Shazanna reveals that Trish Starr has a natural affinity for magic.
Reprinted In Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #3