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Issue: The Defenders #42
Publication Date: December 1976
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Issues: #42 of 152 Issues (373 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: 09/21/1976
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0714860215212
Price: $0.30 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the Comic Reader #135.
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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 series
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Emissaries of Evil!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Defenders [Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Power Man [Luke Cage]; Valkyrie; Hulk [Bruce Banner]]; Rhino [Aleksei Mikhailovich Sytsevich]; Solarr [Silas King]
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In Content Item: FlagEssential Defenders #3 published January 2007
as The Defenders #42 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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And in This Corner: The New Emissaries of Evil!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Defenders [Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Valkyrie; Power Man [Luke Cage]]; Solarr [Silas King]; Rhino [Aleksei Mikhailovich Sytsevich]; Egghead; Omar Karindu; Cobalt Man [Ralph Roberts]
Synopsis: Egghead sends Solar and Rhino to steal the Star of Capistan from Dr. Strange. When the Defenders stop them Egghead sends the Cobalt Man to New York, hoping Cobalt Man will explode and destroy the Defenders.
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In Content Item: FlagEssential Defenders #3 published January 2007
as And in this Corner: The New Emissaries of Evil! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 17
Disclose Notes: Valkyrie in old outfit.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Paens and Platitudes from a Punchy...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letter of comment from reader Mark Ernst.

Also contains a Howard the Duck presidential campaign update #3.

Placed between pages 11 and 12 of the main sequence.
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A Testament to Tapestries Tempestuous, Tales Titanic, and Tableaux Treasured!

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Spider-Man; Tarantula
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Pages: 1
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The Spider-Man and the Fly!

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Fly
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Placed between pages 15 and 16 of the main sequence.

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