Avengers-Defenders Clash

The Avengers-

Defenders Clash

AVENGERS 115-118 • DEFENDERS 8-11

Having been a Marvel reader before I was a Marvel writer, I had always enjoyed the Double-Sized Annuals that appeared every summer - but here, my first year at Marvel, they decided not to do Annuals. So I figured I'd do something "Annual-like" on my own, and conceived of meshing the storylines of my two team books. When I proposed the idea to editor Roy Thomas, he had just one concern: if I screwed this up I'd throw both books off-schedule. I assured him I wouldn't, and that was that. (It would never happen that easily now!)

Roy later called this the first "bi-weekly comic."


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^{Collection: includes DEFENDERS 1-7, DEFENDERS 8-11 & AVENGERS 115-118}I

^{Collection: includes AVENGERS 105-114, AVENGERS 115-119 & DEFENDERS 8-11}I

AVENGERS 105-114	COMICS	AVENGERS 119-135 & GS 2-4
DEFENDERS 1-7

NOTES:

From the moment it was born, this sequence was called the Avengers-Defenders Clash.

After the third time they reprinted it, I wrote “Dang! It sure is popular!” - and now they’ve done it again!