The Defenders #50 (1977) for Sale - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: The Defenders (Marvel, 1972 series)
Issue: #50
Publication date: August 1977
Key date: 1977-08-00
On-sale date: 1977-05-17
Indicia publisher: Marvel Comics Group
Price: $0.30
Pages: 36
Barcode: 0714860215208
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

Death on record for: Capricorn, Elaine McLaughlin, Jake Fury, Noah Perricone, Pisces.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	War Against the Zodiac!	cover	1	pencils: Al Milgrom; inks: Al Milgrom; letters: Joe Rosen	Aquarius, Aries, Bruce Banner, Darren Bentley, Jake Fury, Hellcat, Hulk, Marcus Lassiter, Leo, Moon Knight, Nighthawk, Barbara Norriss, Daniel Radford, Kyle Richmond
1	Who Remembers Scorpio? Part Three Scorpio Must Die!	comic story	17	script: David Kraft; pencils: Keith Giffen; inks: Keith Giffen, Mike Royer, John Tartaglione, Dave Cockrum; colors: Don Warfield; letters: Gaspar Saladino, John Costanza	Aquarius, Aries, Bruce Banner, Darren Bentley, Gustav Brandt, Cancer, Capricorn Death, Nick Fury LMD, Jake Fury Death, Gemini, Hellcat, Hulk, Jack Kleveno, Marcus Lassiter
2	The Defenders' Long Island Hang-Out	character profile	1	script: David Anthony Kraft; pencils: Keith Giffen; colors: John Costanza	Aragorn, Bruce Banner, Clint Barton, Luke Cage, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, Ben Grimm, Hawkeye, Hellcat, Daimon Hellstrom, Howard the Duck, Hulk, Moon Knight, Matt Murdock
3	-	in-house column	1	script: Stan Lee

Plus 2 pages of advertisements and other matter across 2 sequences, as published.

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
35¢	price 0.35 USD
Whitman	See the GCD record for identification notes.
British	price 0.12 GBP

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Marvel Treasury Edition #16	1978	On eBay ›
Essential Defenders #3 ISBN 0-7851-2696-1	2007	On eBay ›
Comic Reader #143	1977	On eBay ›
Bad Moon Rising ISBN 978-0-7851-9096-7	2014	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Defenders #6 ISBN 978-1-302-90958-1	2018	On eBay ›
Moon Knight Omnibus #1 ISBN 978-1-302-92686-1	2020	On eBay ›

Reading the story costs a fraction of owning the issue. Both routes are on every file.

Before you buy

Check the price box: Marvel ran 30-cent and 35-cent test-market price variants in 1976-77.
Canadian and Whitman editions exist for many bronze books; match the barcode area to the plate.
Look for Mark Jewelers inserts and date stamps - they affect collector preference, not authenticity.

Series context

‹ #4950 of 152#51 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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