The Defenders, #104 Newsstand

Published: February 1982

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The Defenders #104

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Issue Contents:
The Non-Team Faces A Fearful Fate in a Far-Flung Dimension--
1 page superhero
Characters
  • The Defenders [Dr. Strange
  • Devil-Slayer
  • Wonder Man
  • Beast]
  • Cory Payne
Credits
Story Notes

Cover colorist credit provided 2007 by Al Milgrom.

A Cracker Jack Story [Baseball]
Story 1 1 page sports
Characters
  • Scottie
Credits
Story Notes

Comic ad for Cracker Jack snack, on inside front cover.

Yesterday Never Dies!
Story 2 21 pages superhero

"Y-you can't do this to me! You can't!!"

Storyline

Ian Fate, the man whose family Eric Payne had killed when he was a mob hitman, captures Eric's wife and sends her to a devil-filled dimension.

Characters
  • The Defenders [Dr. Strange
  • Valkyrie
  • Hellcat
  • Son of Satan
  • Gargoyle [Isaac Christians]
  • Devil-Slayer [Eric Simon Payne]
  • Wonder Man
  • Beast]
  • Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]
  • Wong
  • Ian Fate
  • Matt Murdock [Daredevil]
  • Ira "Sunshine" Gross (death)
  • Cory Payne
  • Luann Bloom
  • Sydney Rosenblum
  • Agent Hanson
Credits
  • Script: J. M. DeMatteis
  • Pencils: breakdowns
  • Pencils: finished art
  • Pencils: finished art
  • Inks: figures
  • Inks: most backgrounds
  • Colors:
  • Letters:
Story Notes

Inking information added 2005 by Steven Tice.

Play the Bubble Yum Sweepstakes
Story 3 1 page children
Credits
Story Notes

Ad for Bubble Yum gum.

A Dungeons & Dragons Adventure! [Evil Goblins]
Story 4 1 page sword and sorcery
Characters
  • Grimslade
  • Indel
  • Saren
  • Valerius
Story Notes

Comic strip ad for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game from TSR Hobbies, Inc.. Continued between [The Green Slime] and [The Red Dragon].

Time for a New Image
Story 5 1 page
Characters
  • Jim Shooter (photograph)
  • Spider-Man [Peter Parker]
  • Micronauts
Daredevil's Longest Fight!
Story 6 1 page superhero
Characters
  • Daredevil [Matt Murdock]
  • Baby Face Johnny
Credits
Story 7 2 pages

"Dear Sirs: It is Independence Day and..."

Story Notes

Letters of comment from readers James King, Paul Caballero, Ted Pyle, Darryl Banks, Francis Herman, Eric Swan, Bruce Canwell, and J. Goldfarb. Second page also includes a Micronauts promotional advertisement.