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Issue: The Defenders #97
Publication Date: July 1981
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Issues: #97 of 152 Issues (373 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct Edition
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: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.50 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 4 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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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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reprinted 2 times as Content Items in other Issues.
Some/all of Issue reprinted as/in another Issue:
FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Defenders #9 [unnamed variant] published January 2024
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Menace Of... The Messiah!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEssential Defenders #5 published January 2010
as Defenders #97 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]black and white
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Slouching Toward Bethlehem

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Messiah [David Kessler] (also in flashback, death); Vera Gemini (cameo flashback)
First Line: Five hours, Gargoyle!
Synopsis: The Defenders travel to Israel to discover the truth behind a Messiah who is performing miracles.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEssential Defenders #5 published January 2010
as Slouching Toward Bethlehem [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 22
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Spider-Man vs. The Human Computer!

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Human Computer
First Line: Mysteriously, all the computers in the city have gone haywire.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Between pages 21 and 22 of the main sequence.
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[untitled]

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1

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