ComicBookReligion.com logo

Marvel Treasury Edition #12 (Jan. 1976):
“The Duck and the Defenders”
by Steve Gerber, Sal Buscema, Klaus Janson

Marvel Treasury Edition #12

Title: “The Duck and the Defenders”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Jan. 1976

Publisher: Marvel
Written by: Steve Gerber
Art by: Sal Buscema, Klaus Janson


14 characters in this story:

Character
(Click links for info about character
and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)
Religious
Affiliation
Team(s)
[Notes]
Pub. #
app.
Howard the Duck Howard the Duck (Howard T. Duck)
(lead character)
hero
CBR Scale: I Catholic (raised)
Daydreamers; Duckworlder...  Marvel 105
Spider-Man Spider-Man (Peter Parker) hero scientist
CBR Scale: I Protestant
Secret Defenders; Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends...  Marvel 10,664
The Hulk The Hulk (Bruce Banner) hero scientist
CBR Scale: I Catholic (lapsed)
Hulkbusters; Pantheon...  Marvel 4,551
Doctor Strange Doctor Strange (Dr. Stephen Strange) hero clergy/religious leader
CBR Scale: D occult
Illuminati; Midnight Sons...  Marvel 1,687
Mary Jane Watson Mary Jane Watson supporting character
CBR Scale: I Christian (denomination
unknown)
[was wife of Peter Parker (Spider-Man)] Marvel 1,827
Clea hero
CBR Scale: S occult
The Defenders
[disciple/former girlfriend of Doctor Strange]
Marvel 222
Valkyrie Valkyrie (Brunnhilde) hero
CBR Scale: D Norse/Teutonic paganism
(Asgardian)
The Defenders
[former Chooser of the Slain]
Marvel 325
Nighthawk Nighthawk (Kyle Richmond) hero
  Redeemers (Earth-712); Redeemers...  Marvel 361
Beverly Switzler Beverly Switzler supporting character
CBR Scale: I Pop Syke success meditation
(Transcendental Meditation)
(temporary)
[girlfriend, sidekick of Howard the Duck] Marvel 52
Black Hole (Morton Kibbee) villain
  Band of the Bland Marvel 5
Doctor Angst (Floyd Mangles) villain
  Band of the Bland (leader) Marvel 9
Sitting Bullseye (Olivier Bedwette) villain
  Band of the Bland Marvel 1
Spanker (Fred Hovel) villain
  Band of the Bland Marvel 4
Tillie the Hun (Matilda von Tromp) villain
  Band of the Bland Marvel 4