The Avengers 1963 #117 Regular Edition - 7.0 - $28.00

The Swordsman fights Valkrie and Captain America fights the Sub-Mariner. Captain America and Sub-Mariner begin to realize that the two teams have been set up to fight each other by someone else.

Part 4 of 6-part crossover with The Defenders. Steve Englehart explains the Watergate-related plot alterations to this story in the letters page of Avengers #122. On-sale date from The Comic Reader #99.

• [Avengers / Defenders War, Interlude] Holocaust - Defenders crossover.
• [Avengers / Defenders War] Chapter 7 - Chapter 7 of Defenders crossover.
• [Avengers / Defenders War] Chapter 8 - Chapter 8 of Defenders crossover. Continues in The Defenders (Marvel, 1972 series) #10.
• - Letters from Brian E. Cook, K. J. Robbins, and Ms. S. Otie.
• Kull the Destroyer - House ad for Kull the Destroyer #11 (Marvel, 1973 Series).