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Issue Details

Issue #2
Published October 1972
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.20 USD
Pages 36
Editing Roy Thomas

Cover Details - "The Search for the Silver Surfer!"

Characters Defenders [Dr. Strange [Stephen Strange]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Silver Surfer [Norrin Radd]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]]; Calizuma
Genre superhero
Pencils Sal Buscema
Inks Frank Giacoia
Notes Cover inker identified 2005 by Nick Caputo.
Reprinted In Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #1; in Marvel Masterworks: The Defenders (Marvel, 2008 series) #1

20 page Defenders story "The Secret of the Silver Surfer!"

Characters Defenders [Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Dr. Strange [Stephen Strange]; Silver Surfer [Norrin Radd]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]]; Necrodamus (in flashback); Calizuma; Warrior Wizards; Wong (Cameo); Omegatron (Cameo)
Synopsis Dr. Strange, Namor and Hulk travel to Asia to find out why Silver Surfer attacked Namor.
Genre superhero
Script Steve Englehart
Pencils Sal Buscema
Inks John Verpoorten
Letters John Costanza
Reprinted In Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #1; in Marvel Masterworks: The Defenders (Marvel, 2008 series) #1

1 page Defenders Dialogue letters page "Defenders Dialogue"

Letters typeset
Notes Letters from Roger Payton, Rick Keefe and Bob Rozakis.