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Issue Details

Issue #117
Published November 1973
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.20 USD
Pages 36
Editing Roy Thomas
Notes Part 4 of 6-part crossover with The Defenders. Continues in The Defenders 10. Letters page replies by Steve Englehart. NOTE: Steve Englehart explains the Watergate-related plot alterations to this story in the letters page of Avengers #122.

Cover Details

Characters Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Sub-Mariner; Sunfire; Black Panther; Scarlet Witch; Vision; Thor [Donald Blake]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]
Genre superhero
Pencils John Romita
Inks Mike Esposito
Letters Gaspar Saladino
Reprinted in Avengers / Defenders War (Marvel, 2002 series) #nn (March 2002); in Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #1; in Marvel Masterworks: The Defenders (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2010); in Mitico Thor, Il (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #124

19 page The Avengers story "Holocaust"

Characters Avengers [Scarlet Witch; Vision; Hawkeye; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Mantis; Black Panther; Swordsman; Captain America [Steve Rogers]]; Defenders [Dr. Strange; Silver Surfer; Valkyrie; Sub-Mariner]; Loki; Dormammu; Aragorn; Sunfire; Black Knight [Dane Whitman]
Synopsis The Swordsman fights Valkrie and Captain America fights the Sub-Mariner. Captain America and Sub-Mariner begin to realize that the two teams have been set up to fight each other by someone else.
Genre superhero
Script Steve Englehart
Pencils Bob Brown
Inks Mike Esposito (pages 1-16); Frank McLaughlin [uncredited] (pages 17-32)
Colors Petra Goldberg
Letters Gaspar Saladino (pages 1 and 3); June Braverman
Notes Chapters 7 and 8 of Defenders crossover.
Reprinted in Super Spider-Man (Marvel UK, 1976 series) #231 [pp. 11-18]; in Avengers / Defenders War (Marvel, 2002 series) #nn (March 2002); in Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #1; in Marvel Masterworks: The Defenders (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2010); in Mitico Thor, Il (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #124