Comics Corner: The Defenders 109

   

Title: The Defenders
Issue Number: 109
Release Date: July 1982

Highlights

• Reference is made to The Defenders 4, 94, 95, 100, 105, 107, Mighty Thor 296, 311, Marvel Team-Up 112, and "current issues of Doctor Strange"
• Valkyrie and Enchantress begin a battle to the death
• The soul of Enchantress gets sucked into the Globe of Souls
• Hellcat doesn't think she likes the real Valkyrie versus when Barbara Norris inhabited her body
• Valkyrie confronts Odin, demanding answers for why he stripped her of her godly powers, and never came looking for her when she disappeared
• Hulk, Namor, and Son of Satan are transported somewhere that concerns them greatly in a cliffhanging interlude
• Doctor Strange departs on his own to go find them
• Gargoyle and Spider-Man head off together, and a blurb tells you to catch up with them in Marvel Team-Up 119
• Dolly convinces Hellcat to go out on her own and look for her dad
• Nighthawk returns from the dead, and in an all new costume
• It's not going to get me reading The Defenders, but there's a lot that happened in this story that I can see would excite fans of the series

Low Points

• The text, in all its Asgardian manner, is difficult to read

Oddities

• Reference is made to an issue 206, but not specifically in what title

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Comics Corner: The Defenders 108

   

Title: The Defenders
Issue Number: 108
Release Date: June 1982

Highlights

• First appearance of the Wasteland location
• Reference is made to The Defenders 4, and Marvel Team-Up 117
• Hulk disrupts Eden by starting a fight
• Barbara Norris's spirit leaves Valkyrie, and Valkyrie's soul returns to her body

Low Points

• It's a very confusing and difficult issue to read

Oddities

• None

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Comics Corner: The Defenders 107

   

Title: The Defenders
Issue Number: 107
Release Date: may 1982

Highlights

• Reference is made to The Defenders 4, 66 - 68. 104, 105, and Marvel Team-UP 116
• Valkyrie is shot in the back, and presumed dead
• Hellcat sees the ghost of Valkyrie
• Valkyrie's ghost appears to more heroes, and Spider-Man, thinking it's not a spirit, attacks, only to go right through her
• Enchantress teleports all the heroes to Asgard for a quest to save Valkyrie's soul in a cliffhanger ending

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• None

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Comics Corner: The Defenders 106

  

Title: The Defenders
Issue Number: 106
Release Date: April 1982

Highlights

• First appearance, and apparent death, of Al Gentle, Georgia Orr, and Theodore Kroeber Mindy Williams, Ursula Richards, and Phillip Leguin
• Apparent death of August Masters, and Kyle Richmond, AKA Nighthawk
• Cool one-pager Cracker Jacks add starring Scottie
• Reference is made to Captain America 264, 268, Defenders 102, and 104
• An ad for Moondance Comics out of Vermont - You could get a copy of The Amazing Spider-Man 121 and 122 for just $20.00 each - That would be a steal these days
• Captain America, Nick Fury, and Trapster in a Hostess Fruit Pies ad

Low Points

• It's the start of a four part story arc, and included in Spider-Man's chronological reading order, but he doesn't actually make an appearance in this issue

Oddities

• Captain America is put in chains, and is left with his shielf - This is twice I've seen that in a Marvel issue
• Editor's Day Off: A disguised Dr. Strange says, "Then there is some plan afoot to launch us into war as the orb of of Attunement intimated!"

• Editor's Continued Day Off / Major Plot Hole: Masters says he's the only one who knows how to deactivate the destruct sequence which Kyle input into the system - Kyle then tells Doctor Strange he has to stay behind to ensure nothing happens to the sequence before detonation, then Doctor Strange teleports all the other heroes out, leaving Kyle and Masters behind
• EXCEPT - If Masters is the only person who knows how to deactivate the self destruct, then Doctor Strange could have easily teleported him and Kyle out as well, and walla - Nobody left behind who can deactivate the self destruct, and Kyle doesn't have to self sacrifice

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