Defenders Annual #1 p30 - Nebulon and the Headmen

Even with janson's heavy inks Sal still shines through. Great pick up

Thanks, Danny! I considered myself very lucky to win it.

I'll admit, the top panel alone is worth the price of admission! 

Well, I was sold on the page as soon as I saw it - and when I noticed the last panel, I checked my bank balance. Collecting - can't live without it, and can't live without it.

Beautiful page. I specially love panels 1 and 4. Huge congrats on this one.

Another great piece from the Defenders for your collection

Those Gerber issues were fantastic. Love the Defenders line up from that time , great B characters !

Agreed - the cast (and it was a large cast) really made the series.

Thanks Kavi! It's a bit of a forgotten story for some as it's from the Annual, but it fits well in the run - and it was long enough to throw both sets of villains into the mix.

Wow - beautiful page!  I love Janson's inking from this period!

Thanks Ted. Agreed, Janson really hit the ground running and everything he did in the '70s for Marvel was just incredible.

Oddly enough this was a story that escaped page turner when I read but not no desire to revisit afterwards. The Headmen were the most unique set of villains.

Hey!  Hey!  A Headmen and Nebulon appearance!  Awesome!

Great gritty and scratchy Janson inks!  Very 70's with Luke having the puffy afro over his tiara!  Really nice cinematic face acting performances from each of the Defenders.

Sal Buscema/ Janson is a perfect combo . Really congrats for this great addition. You have a good taste ....

Thanks Alessandro - having looked at your gallery many times, so do you!

I'll admit that I don't know the names of every character on this page, but if someone wanted to make a real splash at a party, that star shirt is definitely the way to go. Congrats!

Stellar page from the peak Defenders team. Sal and Klaus's art was a sheer joy to savor each month, and Steve Gerber's stories promised something unexpected, quirky and delightful each time. Congrats on a perfect apex Defenders page!

Beautiful pièce défendeurs by the masters !

Oh, wow! It's Nebulon! One of the most perfectly designed characters ever... What a thrill! And the unique Steve Gerber storytelling style gives this page a unique vibe on which Sal Buscema and Klaus Janson take a wild ride and deliver!

That Defenders Annual was definitely a trip, with some of the finest Sal Buscema/Klaus Janson art ever.  Thanks for sharing!

Thanks Lee, and you have a stunning page from the same issue! It was a strange story, and even though Luke Cage often doesn't seem to want to be wherever he is, he really, really didn't want to be there in this story.

Holy smokes!  That's a nice page, Paul!

I love a 'holy smokes'! I got one for my Defenders #1 page years ago, and now I have another. Thanks, James!

Conversely, Steve promised to put on a dancing show for us at )AX but I never saw it! But we all win getting to enjoy this page!

Ha ha! Well, OAX was just a bit too far away for me, so I definitely didn't see any moves. I hope someone did. But glad to share the page, either way.

Quite possibly the greatest panel in your whole collection. This is probably my favorite Defenders issue, art and story. Congrats on having such a great page Paul, it makes me happy.

Ha ha! Thanks, Steve. I'd hoped you'd like it. It's strange, but this comic didn't get distributed to the UK, so I didn't read it with the rest of the Gerber storyline. It tooks many years to stumble across a copy, and then it was like reading a long-lost chapter that the 'authorities' never wanted the 'people' to know about. So many pages in the annual, and such high quality.

Can never get enough of Sal's artwork and Klaus on top of that is extra cool!  Very nice page!!

I dig it, but I might be just a little bit biased

Another amazing Sal/Klaus page.  I'd have loved to have seen them collaborate a lot more in the decades following this.

On the next page we learn that Nagan's confidence comes from their choosing to set this base far away from the coast cities wher you find super-heroes in Norman, OK. I moved to Norman a few weeks after this came out to go to OU. Oh, it's also probably the most fun page in the book. I especially like Jack Noriss in the top panel.

Wow! That must have been a cool connection for someone who's such a Gerber fan! Thanks for sharing that, Greg. And I love the Jack Norris pose as well, casting a detached eye over proceedings.