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by: Steve Gerber, Gerry Conway, David Anthony Kraft, Roger Slifer, John Warner, Don McGregor, Chris Claremont, Ed Hannigan  List Price: $16.99 Amazon.com's Price: $12.74 You Save: $4.25 (25%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 741 EAN: 9780785126966 ISBN: 0785126961 Label: Marvel Comics Manufacturer: Marvel Comics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 592 Publication Date: August 01, 2007 Publisher: Marvel Comics Studio: Marvel Comics Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: The Day of the Defenders first gathered Doctor Strange, the Hulk and the rest of Marvel's legion of loners - but can they survive "Defenders for a Day?" If the second team calling themselves Defenders doesn't finish them off, the third one just might! Plus: more non-stop action when the non-team faces team after team - including the Emissaries of Evil, Zodiac and the Headmen! Demons and gods alike threaten humanity, leaving its outcasts to defend it! Guest-starring Iron Fist, Ms. Marvel, Havok and Polaris, the Son of Satan, Hercules and more! Collects Defenders #40-69 and Annual #1 Average Rating:
 Rating: - I'm a Gerber baby!Oh yes, the Defenders, my favorite Marvel non-team. At least they're a non-team for the first half of the book. From Issue 31-40 something they are still meeting in Dr. Strange's rumpus room instead of a place like Avenger's mansion and using New York's back alley's as a Danger Room. Eventually they take up residence in one of Kyle Richmond's equestrian estates, settle down, become domesticated, gain a few pounds and lose a little of that special Defenders "something". They become more of a formal ... Read More Rating:  - Pretty badI'm a die-hard Hulk fan so I like to pick up some of these Essentials to see the classic Hulk in action but they really lost me with this one. I was starting to lose interest with Vol II but they hit rock bottom with this one. All of the added characters were boring and repetitive. It seems like they added characters to the team for no other purpose than just keeping a filled out roster. The stories and villains were a total borefest with junk sorcery that was just plain foolish. There were a few entertaining ... Read More Rating: - Graphic SF ReaderHellcat, Nighthawk and the Red Guardian? Not exactly the Silver Surfer, Submariner and Doctor Strange. However, those are characters you get at times here, after Doc decides he needs a leave of absence to get his mystic mojo back to the top level. Clea appears a bit as a stand-in, and you have guest stars such as Moon Knight and Nick Fury in the latter half. The artwork with Janson, Buscema etc. in the earlier issues is certainly superior. In general, ... Read More Rating:  - This is the good stuff!After a long wait, Marvel finally publishes the "meat" of Steve Gerber's run on Defenders. When people talk about Gerber as being the 'Grant Morrison of the 70s' (as they do, occasionally), this is the sort of stuff they're talking about. Gerber is mostly remembered today for his quirky work on non-superhero titles like Man-Thing, Howard the Duck and Omega the Unknown. But this volume shows that he could write intelligent, exciting superhero comics that were on a par with the best of Marvel's 70s output. ... Read More Rating: - Excellent collection of stories from Marvel's lesser-known team.This third collection of stories from the Defenders finds the team in an odd place. The original guard is all but gone and the new faces take over. Namor and Silver Surfer are already gone (though Namor shows up again for a few issues toward the end here), Doctor Strange leaves, and who can really count the Hulk as a member of any team? Still Nighthawk, Hellcat, Val, and the Red Guardian step up nicely to keep the pace moving. There are some nice moments wrapped up in here, including a cool Nighthawk solo story against ... Read More 
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