Comic Browser: #1 - I Slay By The Stars! #2 - The Search For The Silver Surfer! #3 - Four Against The Gods #4 - The New Defender! #5 - World Without End? #6 - The Dreams Of Death #7 - War Beneath The Waves! #8 - ... If Atlantis Should Fall! #9 - Divide And Conquer #10 - Breakthrough: The Incredible Hulk vs. the Mighty Thor #11 - A Dark And Stormy Knight #12 - The Titan Strikes Back! #13 - For Sale: One Planet... Slightly Used! #14 - And Who Shall Inherit The Earth? #15 - Panic Beneath The Earth? #16 - Alpha The Ultimate Mutant! #17 - Power Play! #18 - Rampage! #19 - Doomball! #20 - The Woman She Was...! #21 - Enter: The Headmen! #22 - Fangs Of Fire And Blood! #23 - ... The Snakes Shall Inherit The Earth! #24 - In The Jaws Of The Serpent! #25 - The Serpent Sheds Its Skin! #26 - Savage Time! #27 - Three Worlds To Conquer! #28 - My Mother, The Badoon! #29 - Let My Planet Go! #30 - Gold Diggers Of Fear! #31 - Nighthawk's Brain! #32 - Musical Minds! #33 - Webbed Hands, Warm Heart! #34 - I Think We're All Bozos In This Book! #35 - Bring Back My Body To Me, To Me...! #36 - A Garden Of Earthly Demise! #37 - Evil In Bloom! #38 - Exile To Oblivion! #39 - Riot In Cellblock 12! #40 - Love, Anarchy And, Oh Yes... The Assassin! #41 - Intruder In The Sand! #42 - And In This Corner: The New Emissaries Of Evil! #43 - This World Is Mine! #44 - Rage Of The Rajah! #45 - We Must Free The Defenders! #46 - Who Remembers Scorpio? (Prelude) #47 - Night Moves! #48 - Who Remembers Scorpio? Part 1: Sinister Savior! #49 - Rampage: Who Remembers Scorpio? Part Two #50 - Scorpio Must Die! Who Remembers Scorpio? Part Three #51 - A Round With The Ringer! #52 - Defender Of The Realm #53 - The Power Principle, Part 1: The Prince And The Presence! #54 - A Study in Survival! The Power Principle Part Two #55 - Emotion, Ego... and Empty Expectations #56 - Val's New York Adventure #57 - And Along Came... Ms. Marvel! #58 - Xenogenesis Day of the Demons Part 1 Agents of Fortune #59 - Xenogenesis Day of the Demons Part 2 Tyranny and Mutation #60 - The Revenge of Vera Gemini! Xenogenesis Day of the Demons Part 3 #61 - Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Lunatik #62 - Membership Madness! Dollar Bill’s Documentary Disaster Part 1! #63 - Deadlier by the Dozen! #64 - D-Day! #65 - Of Ambitions and Giant Amoebas #66 - War of the Dead! Val in Valhalla Part One #67 - We, The Unliving... #68 - Valhalla Can Wait! Val in Valhalla Part Three #69 - The Anything Man #70 - Catch a Falling Lunatik! #71 - Stranger and Stranger in a Strange Land #72 - Up From The Sky #73 - Of Wizards, Shadows and Kings #74 - Fools Rush In #75 - Poetic Justice #76 - Little Triggers! #77 - Waiting For The End Of The World! #78 - The Return of the Original Defenders! #79 - Chains of Love! #80 - Once A Defender #81 - War in Ogeon #82 - Wizard-Death! #83 - End Of The Tunnel #84 - Battle Royal! #85 - Like a Proud Black Panther… #86 - The Left Hand of Silence! #87 - Inquest #88 - Lord of the Whales #89 - A Death in the Family! #90 - Mind Over Mandrill! #91 - Defiance #92 - Eternity... Humanity... Oblivion! #93 - The Woman Behind the Man! #94 - Beware... The Six-Fingered Hand! #95 - The Vampire Strikes Back! #96 - The Rock and Roll Conspiracy! #97 - Slouching Toward Bethlehem #98 - The Hand Closes! #99 - The Final Conflict? #100 - Hell on Earth! #101 - Renewal #102 - Mind Games #103 - The Haunting of Christianboro #104 - Yesterday Never Dies! #105 - ... Rising... #106 - The War to End All Wars #107 - On Death and Dying... #108 - The Wasteland! #109 - Vengeance! Cries the Valkyrie #110 - ... Hunger... #111 - Fathers and Daughters #112 - Strange Visitor From Another Planet! #113 - Moon Madness! #114 - Dance of Darkness, Dance of Light #115 - A Very Wrong Turn #116 - Two By Two #117 - The Gift #118 - The Double #119 - Ashes, Ashes... We All Fall Down #120 - Sanctuary #121 - Savior #122 - Things To Come #123 - Of Elves And Androids #124 - Darkness On The Edge Of Time #125 - Hello, I Must Be Going. (or... Mad Dogs and Elvishmen!)
Review: Exposition-heavy issue has quite a number of entertaining moments, such as the arrival of Hellcat, accompanied by a lengthy sci-fi account of where she has just been, the battle with the Red Rajah, who comes with a fantasy history of the Star of Capistan and… Well, those were the good parts. There’s also an account of Red Guardian’s troubles with her Soviet bosses and the umpteenth scene of Valkyrie telling Jack Norriss to take a long walk off a short roof. And a bunch of people are hypnotized, including our (male) heroes, leaving the ladies to save the day next time. So see you then….
Comments: Part one of two parts. Hellcat/Patsy Walker makes her first appearance in the title, joining the team next issue; her previous appearances were in AVENGERS #144-151. First appearance of Detective Kris Keating who will show up a few times in this title, then in FF and Captain America issues, finally in several Spider-Man titles; somewhere along the line he is murdered by the Foreigner and replaced with a double but no one is clear exactly when. Rhino comes back in INCREDIBLE HULK #218, Solarr in MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE #53. Jack Norriss’ name is misspelled “Norris” throughout the issue. Dialogue by David Kraft.
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