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Issue: Giant-Size Defenders #1
Publication Date: July 1974
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Issues: #1 of 5 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 04/23/1974
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN:
UPC/EAN:
Price: $0.50 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 12 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #106, May 1974.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Inks over pencils for splash page. Colors yet to be added.
 
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Defenders [Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Silver Surfer [Norrin Radd]]
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Defenders #2 [Regular Edition] published December 2010
In Content Item: FlagHulk E I Difensori #1 published March 1975
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Defenders #2 published January 2006
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Defenders #2 published January 2006
as Giant-Size Defenders #1 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Firsts: The 1970s #2 published January 2012
as Giant-Size Defenders #1 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Way They Were! [Prologue]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Defenders [Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Valkyrie [Barbara]]; Clea; Wong
Synopsis: Valkyrie learns the origins of the Hulk, Namor and Doctor Strange and the Defenders stop Rasputin.
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In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Defenders #2 [Regular Edition] published December 2010
In Content Item: FlagHulk E I Difensori #1 published March 1975
as Come erano [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHulk E I Difensori #2 published April 1975
as Come erano [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Defenders #2 published January 2006
as The Way They Were! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Valkyrie calls Doctor Strange's house Defenders' Headquarters
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[The Way They Were] Part 1: Banished to Outer Space

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner] (origin); Rick Jones; Thunderbolt Ross
First Line: The Hulk is just beginning to learn what it is to be so hated...
Synopsis: The military captures Rick and Ross convinces him that they need the Hulk to test a new experimental rocket for national security. Rick tricks the jade giant into the capsule but once it is shot into space, he realizes that Ross deceived him to get rid of his foe. Rick overrides the programming and returns the rocket to earth but not before Banner (he transformed back to his human form when the rocket came into view of the sun) is doused with further radiation. The Hulk is now unable to revert to his human form and is under Rick's control but only while Rick remains awake.
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From Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk #3 [U.S. Cover Price] published September 1962
was Banished to Outer Space [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 3
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The Way They Were!, Interlude 1

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Defenders [Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Valkyrie [Barbara]]; Clea; Wong
First Line: That was amazing Clea.
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Pages: 1
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[The Way They Were] Part 2: Bird of Prey!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Fen
First Line: --and though not yet Monarch, still was Namor a warrior born!
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From Content Item: FlagSub-Mariner #41 published August 1955
was Bird of Prey! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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The Way They Were!, Interlude 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Defenders [Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Valkyrie [Barbara]]; Clea; Wong
First Line: His words and mannerisms are so different from the Namor I know, Clea.
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Pages: 1
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[The Way They Were] Part 3, To Catch a Magician!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Mister Rasputin (introduction)
First Line: You see Dr. Strange following a desperate battle in the Twilight Dimension.
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #145 [unnamed variant] published June 1966
was To Catch a Magician! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 10
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[The Way They Were] Part 4: The Once and Again Dooms

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Defenders [Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Valkyrie [Barbara]]; Clea; Wong; Mister Rasputin
First Line: Witness: the effects of Clea's miscast spell...
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Pages: 4
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Good Evening! This is the Eleventh-Hour Bullpen!

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Defenders [Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]]
First Line: You've probably been all thru this movie before.
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Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: Editorial includes an image from the cover of Marvel Feature # 1.
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff]; Thor [Donald Blake]; Vision]
First Line: The Mighty Avengers! The fabled All-Winners Squad!
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: House ad for Giant Size Avengers (Marvel, 1974 series) #1 including characters from the cover on sale May 14.
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The Peerless Power of the Silver Surfer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Silver Surfer [Norrin Radd]; Quasimodo
First Line: riding the crest of the summer wind...
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagFantastic Four Annual #5 published November 1967
was The Peerless Power of the Silver Surfer [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 12
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The Dynamic Defenders!

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Defenders [Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Silver Surfer [Norrin Radd]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Valkyrie [Barbara]]
First Line: Here it is! For those of you who claimed our dazzling Defenders pin-up a few months back...
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In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Defenders #2 [Regular Edition] published December 2010
In Content Item: FlagEssential Defenders #2 published January 2006
as The Dynamic Defenders! [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagHulk E I Difensori #1 published March 1975
was I dinamici Difensori! [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2

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