Title: Essential Defenders Vol. 2 TPB
Publication Date: 2007 (On Sale: December 6, 2006)
Format: 616-Page Trade Paperback
Cover Price: $16.99
Collection Group: Marvel Essentials
Contents: Defenders #15-30, Giant-Size Defenders #1-5, Incredible Hulk #3, Sub Mariner #41, Strange Tales #145, Marvel Two-in-One #6-7, Marvel Team-Up #33-35, and Marvel Treasury Edition Featuring Howard the Duck #12

Stories:

• Defenders: "The Way They Were" (9 pages)
  Tony Isabella (Writer) Jim Starlin (Penciller) Allen Milgrom (Inker) David Hunt (Letterer) Petra Scotese (Goldberg) (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Giant-Size Defenders #1 (1974)

• Hulk: "Banished to Outer Space" (11 pages)
  Stan Lee (Writer) Jack Kirby (Penciller) Dick Ayers (Inker) Artie Simek (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Incredible Hulk #3 (1962)

• Sub-Mariner: "Bird of Prey" (4 pages)
  Bill Everett (Writer/Artist)
  Reprinted From: Sub Mariner #41 (1955)

• Doctor Strange: "To Catch a Magician" (10 pages)
  Dennis J. O'Neil (Writer) Steve J. Ditko (Artist) Artie Simek (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Strange Tales #145 (1966)

• Defenders: "Panic Beneath the Earth" (18 pages)
  Len Wein (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Klaus Janson (Inker) John Costanza (Letterer) Glynis Wein (Oliver) (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Defenders #15 (1974)

• Defenders: "Alpha, the Ultimate Mutant" (18 pages)
  Len Wein (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Michael Esposito (Inker) Charlotte Jetter (Letterer) Glynis Wein (Oliver) (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Defenders #16 (1974)

• Defenders: "H... as in Hulk... Hell... and Holocaust" (30 pages)
  Len Wein (Writer) Gil Kane (Penciller) Klaus Janson (Inker) David Hunt (Letterer) Glynis Wein (Oliver) (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Giant-Size Defenders #2 (1974)

• Defenders: "Power Play" (18 pages)
  Len Wein (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Daniel Green (Inker) Annette Kawecki (Letterer) Glynis Wein (Oliver) (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Defenders #17 (1974)

• Defenders: "Rampage" (17 pages)
  Len Wein (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Daniel Green (Inker) David Hunt (Letterer) Glynis Wein (Oliver) (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Defenders #18 (1974)

• Defenders: "Doomball" (18 pages)
  Len Wein (Plotter) Christopher S. Claremont (Scripter) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Klaus Janson (Inker) Artie Simek (Letterer) Bill Mantlo (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Defenders #19 (1975)

• Thing/Doctor Strange: "Death-Song of Destiny" (18 pages)
  Steve Gerber (Writer) George Tuska (Penciller) Michael Esposito (Inker) Artie Simek (Letterer) Petra Scotese (Goldberg) (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Marvel Two-in-One #6 (1974)

• Thing: "Name That Doom" (17 pages)
  Steve Gerber (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Michael Esposito (Inker) Joseph Rosen (Letterer) Bill Mantlo (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Marvel Two-in-One #7 (1975)

• Defenders: "The Woman She Was..." (18 pages)
  Steve Gerber (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Vince Colletta (Inker) John Costanza (Letterer) Petra Scotese (Goldberg) (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Defenders #20 (1975)

• Defenders: "Enter:The Headmen" (18 pages)
  Steve Gerber (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Sal Trapani (Inker) John Costanza (Letterer) George Roussos (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Defenders #21 (1975)

• Defenders: "Games Godlings Play" (32 pages)
  Steve Gerber (Writer) Jim Starlin (Penciller) Dan Adkins (Inker) Charlotte Jetter (Letterer) Glynis Wein (Oliver) (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Giant-Size Defenders #3 (1975)

• Defenders: "Too Cold a Night for Dying" (30 pages)
  Steve Gerber (Writer) Don Heck (Penciller) Vince Colletta (Inker) David Hunt (Letterer) Petra Scotese (Goldberg) (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Giant-Size Defenders #4 (1975)

• Spider-Man: "Anybody Here Know a Guy Named Meteor Man?" (18 pages)
  Gerry Conway (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Vince Colletta (Inker) John Costanza (Letterer) Janice Cohen (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Marvel Team-Up #33 (1975)

• Spider-Man: "Beware the Death Crusade" (18 pages)
  Gerry Conway (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Vince Colletta (Inker) David Hunt (Letterer) George Roussos (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Marvel Team-Up #34 (1975)

• Human Torch/Doctor Strange: "Blood Church" (18 pages)
  Gerry Conway (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Vince Colletta (Inker) Charlotte Jetter (Letterer) Phil Rachelson (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Marvel Team-Up #35 (1975)

• Defenders: "Fangs of Fire and Blood" (18 pages)
  Steve Gerber (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Michael Esposito (Inker) Charlotte Jetter (Letterer) Petra Scotese (Goldberg) (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Defenders #22 (1975)

• Defenders: "...the Snakes Shall Inherit the Earth" (18 pages)
  Steve Gerber (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Vince Colletta (Inker) June Braverman (Letterer) Don Warfield (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Defenders #23 (1975)

• Defenders: "In the Jaws of the Serpent" (18 pages)
  Steve Gerber (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Bob McLeod (Inker) Tom Orzechowski (Letterer) Phil Rachelson (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Defenders #24 (1975)

• Defenders: "The Serpent Sheds Its Skin" (18 pages)
  Steve Gerber (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Jack Abel (Inker) Raymond Holloway (Letterer) Petra Scotese (Goldberg) (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Defenders #25 (1975)

• Defenders: "Eelar Moves in Mysterious Ways" (32 pages)
  Steve Gerber (Writer) Don Heck (Penciller) Michael Esposito (Inker) David Hunt (Letterer) George Roussos (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Giant-Size Defenders #5 (1975)

• Defenders: "Savage Time" (18 pages)
  Steve Gerber (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Vince Colletta (Inker) Karen Mantlo (Pocock) (Letterer) Irene Vartanoff (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Defenders #26 (1975)

• Defenders: "Three Worlds to Conquer" (18 pages)
  Steve Gerber (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Vince Colletta (Inker) Joseph Rosen (Letterer) Al Wenzel (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Defenders #27 (1975)

• Defenders: "My Mother, the Badoon" (18 pages)
  Steve Gerber (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Frank Giacoia (Inker) John Tartaglione (Inker) Joseph Rosen (Letterer) Al Wenzel (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Defenders #28 (1975)

• Defenders: "Let My Planet Go" (18 pages)
  Steve Gerber (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Vince Colletta (Inker) John Costanza (Letterer) Glynis Wein (Oliver) (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Defenders #29 (1975)

• Defenders: "Gold Diggers of Fear" (18 pages)
  Bill Mantlo (Writer) Sam Grainger (Penciller) Jack Abel (Inker) Karen Mantlo (Pocock) (Letterer) George Roussos (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Defenders #30 (1975)

• Howard the Duck: "The Duck and the Defenders" (27 pages)
  Steve Gerber (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Klaus Janson (Inker) Joseph Rosen (Letterer) Marie Severin (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Marvel Treasury Edition Featuring Howard the Duck #12 (1977)