Defenders #34 page 27 – the team fight Nebulon (plus Bozos)!

I was wrong about Nebulon pages, this one is great!

Thanks, Steve! I was hoping you'd like it.

Defenders! Nebulon ! How many memories....

Thanks for sharing!!

Thanks Alessandro - happy memories for me too (although I wonder how much of the story I really understood when I was 8 years old)!

Cool page! That last panel delivers the money shot! Congratulations!

SHWAK! Yes, it's Valkyrie's footwork that makes the last explosive panel so dynamic. Thanks, Stephan!

The Sal/Mooney team was a force to be reckoned with!

It definitely was! Thanks, Rick.

"Curse your inability to recall names, Hulk!"  LOL, I have the same issue.  

Ha ha! It's a seldom explored topic in superhero comics. "The Baxter Building is under attack! From... er... oh, you know. What's his name? Not the underwater one. The giant guy with the huge cylindrical helment. Damn it!".

Great page! This was such an interesting but weird read. Loved these issues. 

Thanks Eelco. This was my favourite period, although I love the stories before this - and Scorpio afterwards. Gerber was just so imaginative.

Brilliant Defenders vs Nebulon content, silky Sal/Mooney art, classic Hulk dialogues, diversity of panel sizes and characters depicted - this page has so much to love!

Thanks, Kavi! As a child reading it for the first time, the panel in which Nebulon reveals himself was so exciting. The dialogue just gets funnier over time.

I used to read the Defenders as a kid and seeing this brings back the feels! Thanks for sharing! 

Glad to read that it rekindles those memories. Thanks!

Wonderful early Defenders page - such a great story from a great run. Congrats on another bronze age beauty of a page! 

Thanks, Dave! I'll try to put an even Hulkier Defenders page up soon.

Smashing!

Hey! It's Nebulon once again! Oh, wow! You're turning on wonder after wonder! Don't stop!

Thanks Al!

Nebulon for days! Congrats

Thanks, Ron. It took me a long time to get a Nebulon page into my collection.

Nebulon was a great designed villian but with very strange plans and motivations. And you knew with Gerber that the story would alwys take a left turn. But still a great page!

True. Nebulon was a villain who could actually be reasoned with - which I guess played into Gerber's thoughts on what heroism and villainy were.

Noble Nebulon battles those do-gooder Defenders!

Ha ha! Well, Gerber would have seen that point of view as well. Why should it be up to the heroes to decide what's best for people?

Hulk is right.  It doesn't matter what the name is when it's time to smash! 

You're right. Everyone can be called 'splodge' after Hulk has done his thing.

Great page from a great run.  Defenders 1-50 was an amazing book.

Thanks, Carlo. Yes, that was the run to end all runs.

My first exposure to Nebulon was his profile page in the Book of the Dead issues of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition.  I recall reading his entry a couple of times because it was one of the more "out there" profiles.  So it's great to see original art pages of the character in action.

Thanks, Michael! Yes, 'out there' about sums it up. A villain who can be reasoned with and then walks away...

your colletion of early Sal Defenders artwork is amazing, another incredible piece, congrats!

Thanks, Stephen. Still quite a few left - Sal is my favourite artists (and I think he counts for about 1 in 6 pages in my entire collection, worryingly). It really please me when I can share the art with fellow Sal (and Hulk) fans!

great Sal/Monney team-up!  that center panel is worth the price of admission 

It's the classic Marvel team springing-into-action panel! But while lesser outfits had the likes of "Avengers Assemble!", the Defenders have "The explanation <villain>. Is it forthcoming?". Stirring stuff.

Nebulon makes this page extra cool! Like if Eternity and the Creeper had a love child.

Ha ha! Well, I never made that connection - but now you mention it... Wouldn't that be a great Marvel tale?

Excellent pièce signed by the master - Congrats my friend !!

Thanks! The signature may well be from the pages Jim Mooney sold directly from his collection, probably more than twenty years ago now.

transformation pages are so amazing!! This is not and exception! If you add a nice battle panel to the recepy.... here you have a REALLY GOOD PAGE! Huge congrats!!!

Thanks, Toni! I always loved the transformation panel, and yes - Valkyrie avoiding that blast as Hulk gets ready to pounce does make the page.

Great page but I have to wonder. Where was Valkyrie keeping her sword?

Fortunately it was there all along, thanks to an illusion cast by Strange. But explanations involving the word 'Strange' may not be helping as much as I'd like.