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Issue: The Defenders #21
Publication Date: March 1975
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Issues: #21 of 152 Issues (371 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 4 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Len Wein
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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ORIGINAL COVER ART from the Private Collection of Weng Keong Tam
 
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Beware the Black Rain!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Gil Kane
Inker(s): Klaus Janson
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Anette Kawecki ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Defenders
Character(s): The Defenders [Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Valkyrie; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]]
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In Content Item: FlagEssential Defenders #2 published January 2006
as Defenders #21 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]black and white
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Enter: The Headmen!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Steve Gerber
Penciller(s): Sal Buscema
Inker(s): Sal Trapani
Colorist(s): George Roussos
Letterer(s): John Costanza
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Defenders
Character(s): The Defenders [Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]; Valkyrie; Hulk [Bruce Banner]]; Thing [Ben Grimm] (Cameo); Headmen [Gorilla-Man [Arthur Nagan]; Jerold Morgan; Chondu the Mystic]; Mrs. Lafferty; Trixie Starr; Clea
Synopsis: The Headmen unleash a wave of madness over the city to distract everyone while the commit jewel robberies.
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In Content Item: FlagEssential Defenders #2 published January 2006
as Enter: The Headmen! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 18
Disclose Notes: The Headmen are characters from three 1950s Marvel stories, further developed by Steve Gerber after those stories were reprinted in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #7 (December 1974).
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Special Bullpen Note:

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Steve Gerber (replies)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Defenders Dialogue
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters of comment from readers G. C. Hoover, Rick Vizachero, and Jana C. Hollingsworth.

Located between pages 11 and 12 of the main sequence.
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Memos and Meanderings From Your Mighty Muddled Merry-Makers!

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (signed); ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Bullpen Bulletins
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