Giant-Size Defenders #1 (July 1974):
“The Way They Were!”
by Tony Isabella, Jim Starlin, Al Milgrom

Giant-Size Defenders #1

Title: “The Way They Were!”

Medium: comic

Cover date: July 1974

Publisher:
Written by: Tony Isabella
Art by: Jim Starlin, Al Milgrom

Number of Pages: 9

8 characters in this story:

Character (Click links for info about character and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)	Religious Affiliation	Team(s) [Notes]	Pub.	# app.
The Hulk (Bruce Banner)	Catholic (lapsed)	Hulkbusters; Pantheon...  Secret Defenders; The Avengers; The Defenders; The Order; The Ultimates; Warbound; Weapon X (Exiles); X-Saviours		4,551
The Sub-Mariner (Namor)	Atlantean Greco-Roman classical religion	Atlantean; Dark X-Men...  human; Illuminati; The All-Winners Squad; The Avengers; The Cabal; The Defenders; The Invaders; The Order; X-Men		1,864
Doctor Strange (Dr. Stephen Strange)	occult	Illuminati; Midnight Sons...  Secret Defenders; The Avengers; The Defenders; The Order		1,687
Nazis	Nazi	[generic WWII Nazis]	, etc.	4,222
Clea	occult	The Defenders [disciple/former girlfriend of Doctor Strange]		222
Valkyrie (Brunnhilde)	Norse/Teutonic paganism (Asgardian)	The Defenders [former Chooser of the Slain]		325
Wong	Tibetan Buddhism; occult	[house servant of Doctor Strange]		333
Mister Rasputin (Pavel Plotnick)	sorcerer	[descendant of famed Russian sorcerer]		5

This "story" is bridging material: 9 new pages spread around reprints of three stories from previous publications. The reprinted stories are from: "Banished to Outer Space" from Incredible Hulk #3 (Sep. 1962), "Bird of Prey!" from Sub-Mariner Comics 41 (Aug. 1955), and "To Catch a Magician!" (featuring Doctor Stange) from Strange Tales #145 (June 1966). This issue also features a Silver Surfer story: "The Peerless Power of the Silver Surfer" from Fantastic Four Annual #5 (Nov. 1967).

The character indexing done here is only for the characters in the new bridging material, not the issue as a whole (and its constituent reprint material).

This story was indexed from secondary sources only. The character list above is not necessarily comprehensive. Webpage for Giant-Size Defenders #1 (July 1974) created 3 September 2010. Last modified 26 December 2013.

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