The Defenders #73 (1979) for Sale - Where to Buy

Identification plate

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Shadow of the Wizard King!	cover	1	pencils: Herb Trimpe; inks: Don Perlin; colors: George Roussos; letters: Gaspar Saladino	Hellcat, Patsy Walker
1	Of Wizards, Shadows & Kings	comic story	17	script: Ed Hannigan; pencils: Herb Trimpe; inks: Mike Esposito; colors: Ben Sean; letters: John Costanza, Clem Robins	Clea
3	-	in-house column	1	script: Stan Lee	Nighthawk
5	Defenders Progress Report	letters page	1	letters: typeset

Plus 2 pages of advertisements and other matter across 2 sequences, as published.

Edition	How to tell
British	price 0.12 GBP
Newsstand	See the GCD record for identification notes.

Collection	Year
Essential Defenders #4 ISBN 978-0-7851-3061-1	2008	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Defenders #7 ISBN 978-1-302-92226-9	2020	On eBay ›

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Check the price box: Marvel ran 30-cent and 35-cent test-market price variants in 1976-77.
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