st printing. Collects Doctor Strange (1968 1st Series) #183, [Prince Namor, the] Sub-Mariner (1968 1st Series) #22 and #34-35, The Incredible Hulk (1962 Marvel 1st Series) #126, Marvel Feature (1971-1973 1st Series) #1-3, The Defenders (1972-1986 1st Series) #1-11, The Avengers (1963-1996 1st Series) #116-118 and material from The Avengers (1963-1996 1st Series) #115.

Written by Roy Thomas, Steve Englehart, and Len Wein. Art by Sal Buscema, Gene Colan, Herb Trimpe, Ross Andru, Bob Brown, Marie Severin, Don Heck, Jim Mooney, Tom Palmer, Johnny Craig, Bill Everett, Frank Giacoia, John Verpoorten, Frank McLaughlin, Frank Bolle, and Mike Esposito. Cover by Neal Adams. Back Cover by John Buscema and Frank Giacoia.

The day of the Defenders has come!

Roy Thomas joined his Titans Three of the Incredible Hulk, the Sub-Mariner and the Silver Surfer together with Doctor Strange to create comics' greatest "non-team," the Defenders! They don't rely on bylaws and butlers like other teams. They join together in moments of utmost crisis to face inenemies! But when they encounter heroes of a more conventional stripe, it's war - the watershed hero vs. hero Avengers/Defenders War, no less!

The original Defenders are soon joined by Hawkeye and Valkyrie and face Dormammu, the Enchantress, Loki, the sorcerer Cyrus Black and the horror of the Nameless One in this historic Epic Collection!

Softcover, 480 pages, full color. Rated T

NOTE: Book 1 of the Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection - Years Covered: 1969-1973.