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Title: MARVEL FEATURE No. 1 * 1st Appearance: The Defenders
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Publisher:Marvel [Indicia: Magazine Management Co., Inc.]
Date Published: December, 1971
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VG+ (4.5). Slight spine roll, a touch of spine stress, very fine creases to corners and upper right edge of front cover, a few small rubs to front cover near bottom edge, 1/2" tear to right edge of front cover, lightly dusty edges to back cover. White to off-white pages. Cover: Neal Adams. Script: roy Thomas. Art: Ross Andru (Bill Everett inks). Origin and 1st appearance: The Defenders. GPAnalysis: A 4.5 sold for $138 in April 2022.

"Marvel Feature #1... featured the first appearance of the Defenders. Behind an iconic cover by Neal Adams, writer Roy Thomas and artists Ross Andru and Bill Everett brought readers a new super-team comprised of three characters — Doctor Strange, the Hulk, and the Sub-Mariner — who, even if a reason could be contrived to bring them together, had no real reason to stay together once the immediate crisis had been averted. But despite its obvious origins as a high-concept gimmick, the Defenders' 'non-team' dynamic proved to have a compelling quality all its own; indeed, though one might never guess it from this somewhat ragged initial outing, The Defenders would, in just a few years, grow to become one of Marvel's finest series of the era — even, perhaps, the defining Marvel superhero series of the Seventies." — Alan Stewart, "Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books" blog, July 28, 2021.

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