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Issue Details

Issue #55
Published January 1978
Cover Price 0.35
Pages 36
Editing Archie Goodwin
Notes Letters page replies by David Anthony Kraft.

Cover Details - "The Presence!"

Characters Defenders [Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Hellcat [Patsy Walker]]; Presence [Sergei]
Genre superhero
Pencils Gil Kane (signed)
Inks Joe Sinnott (signed)
Letters Irving Watanabe
Notes Letters page replies by David Anthony Kraft.
Reprinted In Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #3

17 page Defenders, The story "The Power Principle Part Three Emotion, Ego...and Empty Expectations!"

Characters Defenders [Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Hellcat [Patsy Walker]; Red Guardian [Dr. Tania Belinsky]; Valkyrie]; Presence [Sergei]; Red Guardian [Alexi Shostakov] (Flashback; Cameo); Ledge; Lunatik
Synopsis The Defenders, with the help of a deap-sea monster, stop Sergei and release Red Guardian from his power. Unfortunately they are all suffering from radiation poisoning.
Genre superhero
Script David Kraft
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks Klaus Janson
Colors Klaus Janson
Letters Gaspar Saladino
Notes The Power Principal Part 3
Reprinted In Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #3