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WHAT IF: Defenders Vol. 2
Map by GaryUK: reprints The Defenders #8 - #16, Giant-Size Defenders #1, The Avengers #115 - #118 (approx 225 pages)
9/73: The Avengers #115 (3 pages + cover)
- "Alliance Most Foul"
- Credits: Steve Englehart (writer); Bob Brown (penciller); Mike Esposito (inker)
9/73: The Defenders #8 (4 pages + cover)
- "The Deception" (Chapter 1)
- Credits: Steve Englehart (writer); Sal Buscema (penciller); Frank McLaughlin (inker)
10/73: The Avengers #116 (19 pages + cover)
- "Betrayal" (Chapter 2) (10 pages)
- "The Silver Surfer vs. the Vision and the Scarlet Witch" (Chapter 3) (9 pages)
- Credits: Steve Englehart (writer); Bob Brown (penciller); Mike Esposito (inker)
10/73: The Defenders #9 (19 pages + cover)
- "Divide and Conquer" (Chapter 4) (3 pages)
- "The Invincible Iron Man vs. Hawkeye the Archer" (Chapter 5) (8 pages)
- "Dr. Strange vs. the Black Panther and Mantis" (Chapter 6) (8 pages)
- Credits: Steve Englehart (writer); Sal Buscema (penciller); Frank McLaughlin (inker)
11/73: The Avengers #117 (18 pages + cover)
- "Holocaust" (2 pages)
- "Swordsman vs. the Valkyrie" (Chapter 7) (8 pages)
- "Captain America vs. the Sub-Mariner" (Chapter 8) (8 pages)
- Credits: Steve Englehart (writer); Bob Brown (penciller); Mike Esposito, Frank McLaughlin (inkers)
11/73: The Defenders #10 (19 pages + cover)
- "Breakthrough; The Incredible Hulk vs. the Mighty Thor" (Chapter 9) (10 pages)
- "United We Stand" (Chapter 10) (9 pages)
- Credits: Steve Englehart (writer); Sal Buscema (penciller); Frank Bolle (inker)
12/73: The Avengers #118 (19 pages + cover)
- "To the Death" (Chapter 11)
- Credits: Steve Englehart (writer); Bob Brown (penciller); Mike Esposito, Frank Giacoia (inkers)
12/73: The Defenders #11 (19 pages + cover)
- "A Dark and Stormy Knight" (Chapter 12)
- Credits: Steve Englehart (writer); Sal Buscema (penciller); Frank Bolle (inker)
2/74: The Defenders #12 (19 pages + cover)
- "The Titan Strikes Back"
- Credits: Len Wein (writer); Sal Buscema, Jack Abel (pencillers); Jack Abel (inker)
7/74: Giant-Size Defenders #1 (7 pages + cover)
- "The Way They Were": Prolgue (3 pages)
- Part 4: "The Once And Again Dooms" (4 pages)
- Credits: Tony Isabella (writer); Jim Starlin (penciller); Al Milgrom (inker)
- 7 page framing sequences featuring reprints:
- Part 1: "Banished to Outer Space" (from Incredible Hulk #3)
- Part 2: "Bird of Prey" (from GA Sub-Mariner #41, August 1955)
- Part 3: "To Catch a Magician" (from Strange Tales #145)
5/74: The Defenders #13 (19 pages + cover)
- "For Sale: One Planet, Slightly Used"
- Credits: Len Wein (writer); Sal Buscema (penciller); Klaus Janson (inker)
7/74: The Defenders #14 (20 pages + cover)
- "And Who Shall Inherit the Earth?"
- Credits: Len Wein (writer); Sal Buscema (penciller); Dan Green (inker)
9/74: The Defenders #15 (18 pages + cover)
- "Panic Beneath the Earth"
- Credits: Len Wein (writer); Sal Buscema (penciller); Klaus Janson (inker)
10/74: The Defenders #16 (18 pages + cover)
- "Alpha, the Ultimate Mutant"
- Credits: Len Wein (writer); Sal Buscema (penciller); Mike Esposito (inker)
Mockup image by: David Spofforth

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