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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published February 1973
Cover Price 0.20 USD
Pages 36
Editing Roy Thomas
Notes Cover inker identified 2005 by Nick Caputo. Cover penciler identified 2005 by Shane Foley, confirmed by Steven Tice.

Cover Details - "Valkyrie Rides Again!"

Characters Defenders [Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Dr. Strange [Stephen Strange]; Valkyrie]; Aragorn
Genre superhero
Pencils John Buscema
Inks Frank Giacoia
Notes Cover inker identified 2005 by Nick Caputo. Cover penciler identified 2005 by Shane Foley, confirmed by Steven Tice.
Reprinted In Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #1; in Marvel Masterworks: The Defenders (Marvel, 2008 series) #1

20 page Defenders story "The New Defender!"

Characters Defenders [Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Dr. Strange [Stephen Strange]; Valkyrie]; Barbara Norris; Executioner; Fragon; Enchantress [Amora]; Black Knight [Dane Whitman]; Zeus (flashback; Cameo); Aragorn; Casiolena; Omegatron
Synopsis Enchantress transforms Barbara into the Valkyrie and turns the Black Knight to stone; Valkyrie takes Aragorn as her horse; Omegatron down to 89 hundredths.
Genre superhero
Script Steve Englehart
Pencils Sal Buscema
Inks Frank McLaughlin
Colors Petra Goldberg
Letters Artie Simek
Reprinted in Marvel Treasury Edition (Marvel, 1974 series) #16 (1978); In Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #1; in Marvel Masterworks: The Defenders (Marvel, 2008 series) #1