Today In The History Of Polt's Comic Book Collection
Today we travel back 40 years to February 1984 and Marvel's New Defenders #131!
The Defenders were always an unusual team, having members who didn't really seem to belong together, who never really had a set membership, members came and went with every issue, and who battled unusual and weird challenges.
In issue 125, a new creative team took over. They removed all the members who had been coming and going for a while (except for Valkyrie and Gargoyle), and brought in three founding members of the X-Men, as well as former Avengers Moondragon. And they made those six members into a more conventional superhero team, complete with official sanction by the US government.
This was not really "The Defenders". Sales dropped. I don't know if it was because of the member changes or just really uninteresting storylines. I stayed with the title though, hoping it would improve. But them, after only two years, the title was canceled.
On the cover we have the three X-Men members: Angel, Beast and Iceman.
POLT
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