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Issue Details

Issue #43
Published January 1977
Cover Price 0.30
Pages 36
Editing Gerry Conway
Notes Letters page credits John Byrne with the redesigned Valkyrie costume.

Cover Details

Characters Defenders [Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Valkyrie; Power Man [Luke Cage]; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]; Dr. Strange [Stephen Strange]]; Cobalt Man [Ralph Roberts]
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Al Milgrom (signed)
Letters Dan Crespi?
Notes Letters page credits John Byrne with the redesigned Valkyrie costume.
Reprinted in Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #3

17 page Defenders, The story "This World Is Mine!"

Characters Defenders [Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Power Man [Luke Cage]; Valkyrie; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]; Red Guardian [Dr. Tania Belinsky]; Dr. Strange [Stephen Strange]]; Cobalt Man [Ralph Roberts] (origin retold); Egghead; Rhino [Aleksei Mikhailovich Sytsevich]; Solarr [Silas King]; Red Rajah; Clea; Iron Man [Tony Stark] (Cameo); X-Men [Beast; Cyclops; Iceman; Angel] (Cameo)
Synopsis Egghead, Rhino and Solarr arrive in New York to take the Star of Capistan. The Defenders stop them and the Colbalt Man, but the Star of Capistan has taken over the body of Dr. Strange and become the Red Rajah.
Genre superhero
Script Gerry Conway
Pencils Keith Giffen (layouts); Klaus Janson (finished art)
Inks Klaus Janson
Colors Klaus Janson
Letters Irving Watanabe
Notes Red Rajah is Dr. Strange taken over by the Star of Capistan.
Reprinted In Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #3