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Issue Details

Issue #116
Published October 1973
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.20 USD
Pages 36
Editing Roy Thomas
Notes Part 2 of 6-part crossover with The Defenders. Continues in The Defenders 9. "Johnny Romita" credited as Art Director

Cover Details - "It's Avenger vs. Defender -- to the Death!!"

Characters Avengers [Vision; Scarlet Witch]; Silver Surfer [Norrin Radd]
Genre superhero
Pencils John Romita
Inks Mike Esposito
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); in Mitico Thor, Il (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #123

19 page The Avengers story "Betrayal!"

Characters Avengers [Thor; Vision; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Scarlet Witch; Swordsman; Mantis; Hawkeye [Clint Barton]]; Wong; Loki; Dormammu; Defenders [Dr. Strange [Stephen Strange]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Silver Surfer [Norrin Radd]; Valkyrie; Sub-Mariner [Namor]]; Black Knight [Dane Whitman]; Prester John (flashback); Human Torch [Johnny Storm] (flashback); Wyatt Wingfoot (flashback); Aragorn
Synopsis Silver Surfer battles Vision and the Scarlet Witch atop a volcano for a piece of the weapon called The Evil Eye.
Genre superhero
Script Steve Englehart
Pencils Bob Brown
Inks Mike Esposito
Colors Petra Goldberg
Letters John Costanza
Notes Chapters 2 and 3 of Defenders crossover.
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); in Mitico Thor, Il (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #123