Title: Essential Defenders Vol. 1 TPB
Publication Date: 2005 (On Sale: May 4, 2005)
Format: 544-Page Trade Paperback
Cover Price: $16.99
Collection Group: Marvel Essentials
Contents: Doctor Strange #183, Sub-Mariner #22, Incredible Hulk #126, Sub-Mariner #34-35, Marvel Feature #1-3, Defenders #1-14, and Avengers #115-118

Stories:

• Doctor Strange: "They Walk by Night" (20 pages)
  Roy Thomas (Writer) Gene Colan (Penciller) Tom Palmer (Inker) Jean Simek (Izzo) (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Doctor Strange #183 (1969)

• Sub-Mariner: "The Monarch and the Mystic" (20 pages)
  Roy Thomas (Writer) Marie Severin (Penciller) Johnny Craig (Inker) Artie Simek (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Sub-Mariner #22 (1970)

• Hulk: "...Where Stalks the Night-Crawler" (20 pages)
  Roy Thomas (Writer) Herb Trimpe (Artist) Artie Simek (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Incredible Hulk #126 (1970)

• Sub-Mariner: "Titans Three" (19 pages)
  Roy Thomas (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Jim Mooney (Inker) Artie Simek (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Sub-Mariner #34 (1971)

• Sub-Mariner: "Confrontation" (19 pages)
  Roy Thomas (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Jim Mooney (Inker) Jean Simek (Izzo) (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Sub-Mariner #35 (1971)

• Defenders: "The Day of the Defenders" (19 pages)
  Roy Thomas (Writer) Ross Andru (Penciller) Bill Everett (Inker) Sam Rosen (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Marvel Feature #1 (1971)

• Doctor Strange: "The Return" (10 pages)
  Roy Thomas (Writer) Don Heck (Penciller) Frank Giacoia (Inker) Sam Rosen (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Marvel Feature #1 (1971)

• Defenders: "Nightmare on Bald Mountain" (28 pages)
  Roy Thomas (Writer) Ross Andru (Penciller) Sal Buscema (Inker) Sam Rosen (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Marvel Feature #2 (1972)

• Defenders: "A Titan Walks Among Us" (23 pages)
  Roy Thomas (Writer) Ross Andru (Penciller) Bill Everett (Inker) Artie Simek (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Marvel Feature #3 (1972)

• Defenders: "I Slay by the Stars" (20 pages)
  Steve Englehart (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Frank Giacoia (Inker) Artie Simek (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Defenders #1 (1972)

• Defenders: "The Secret of the Silver Surfer" (20 pages)
  Steve Englehart (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) John Verpoorten (Inker) John Costanza (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Defenders #2 (1972)

• Defenders: "Four Against the Gods" (20 pages)
  Steve Englehart (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Jim Mooney (Inker) Artie Simek (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Defenders #3 (1972)

• Defenders: "The New Defender" (20 pages)
  Steve Englehart (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Frank McLaughlin (Inker) Artie Simek (Letterer) Petra Scotese (Goldberg) (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Defenders #4 (1973)

• Defenders: "World Without End?" (20 pages)
  Steve Englehart (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Frank McLaughlin (Inker) Charlotte Jetter (Letterer) Glynis Wein (Oliver) (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Defenders #5 (1973)

• Defenders: "The Dreams of Death" (19 pages)
  Steve Englehart (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Frank McLaughlin (Inker) John Costanza (Letterer) David Hunt (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Defenders #6 (1973)

• Defenders: "War Below the Waves" (19 pages)
  Steve Englehart (Writer) Len Wein (Scripter) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Frank W. Bolle (Inker) June Braverman (Letterer) Glynis Wein (Oliver) (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Defenders #7 (1973)

• Defenders: "...If Atlantis Should Fall" (15 pages)
  Steve Englehart (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Frank McLaughlin (Inker) Charlotte Jetter (Letterer) Petra Scotese (Goldberg) (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Defenders #8 (1973)

• Avengers: "Alliance Most Foul" (3 pages)
  Steve Englehart (Writer) Bob Brown (Penciller) Michael Esposito (Inker) Jean Simek (Izzo) (Letterer) Stan Goldberg (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Avengers #115 (1973)

• Defenders: "Deception" (4 pages)
  Steve Englehart (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Frank McLaughlin (Inker) Charlotte Jetter (Letterer) Petra Scotese (Goldberg) (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Defenders #8 (1973)

• Avengers: "Betrayal" (19 pages)
  Steve Englehart (Writer) Bob Brown (Penciller) Michael Esposito (Inker) John Costanza (Letterer) Petra Scotese (Goldberg) (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Avengers #116 (1973)

• Defenders: "Divide... and Conquer" (19 pages)
  Steve Englehart (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Frank McLaughlin (Inker) Artie Simek (Letterer) Petra Scotese (Goldberg) (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Defenders #9 (1973)

• Avengers: "Holocaust" (19 pages)
  Steve Englehart (Writer) Bob Brown (Penciller) Michael Esposito (Inker) June Braverman (Letterer) Petra Scotese (Goldberg) (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Avengers #117 (1973)

• Defenders: "Breakthrough" (19 pages)
  Steve Englehart (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Frank W. Bolle (Inker) Tom Orzechowski (Letterer) Petra Scotese (Goldberg) (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Defenders #10 (1973)

• Avengers: "To the Death" (19 pages)
  Steve Englehart (Writer) Bob Brown (Penciller) Michael Esposito (Inker) Frank Giacoia (Inker) Tom Orzechowski (Letterer) George Roussos (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Avengers #118 (1973)

• Defenders: "A Dark and Stormy Knight" (19 pages)
  Steve Englehart (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Frank W. Bolle (Inker) Tom Orzechowski (Letterer) George Roussos (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Defenders #11 (1973)

• Defenders: "The Titan Strikes Back" (19 pages)
  Len Wein (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Jack Abel (Inker) Charlotte Jetter (Letterer) Petra Scotese (Goldberg) (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Defenders #12 (1974)

• Defenders: "For Sale:One Planet -- Slightly Used" (19 pages)
  Len Wein (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Klaus Janson (Inker) John Costanza (Letterer) Glynis Wein (Oliver) (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Defenders #13 (1974)

• Defenders: "And Who Shall Inherit the Earth?" (20 pages)
  Len Wein (Writer) Sal Buscema (Penciller) Daniel Green (Inker) Artie Simek (Letterer) Glynis Wein (Oliver) (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Defenders #14 (1974)