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Marc Foxx
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Man - I had forgotten how much I liked Iron Man's hip pads!
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Frank Lauro
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Luke Cage, Power Man was a Defender? I don't think I knew that. (Or was he just passing through?)
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Jason Czeskleba
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At that point in time, almost everyone who appeared in the Defenders title was "just passing through." The only characters who considered the Defenders to be a real group and actually wanted to be members were Nighthawk and Valkyrie. Cage appeared in issues #17-19, 23-25, and then roughly #37-45 or so. I think most of those issues will be in Essential Defenders #2 if you're interested.
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Chad Carter
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Passing I think. 
I haven't read this comic in a while, but Cage is hired to protect some kind of structure I think under threat, and gets in a major fight with Nighthawk in particular. Sal Buscema has the two delivering some hellacious blows. Luke becomes a de facto member, kind of like Namor and the Surfer. He's around when the Big Shite goes down. I miss the old Hero-For-Hire.
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Jason Czeskleba
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An interesting fact about Kirby's 70's Marvel covers (at least for the books he was not writing/drawing himself) is that apparently many of them were drawn over layouts prepared by Marvel staff artists like Al Milgrom and Ed Hannigan (the cover to Iron Man #96 earlier in this thread shows how Milgrom could definitely do a Kirbyesque cover layout).
On Joe Sinnott's website he had a page where he posted images of all the homages to the cover of FF #1 that he has inked over the years. One of the images he posted was Invaders #5:
Anyway, it had never occured to me that might be an homage to FF #1, but there are some similarities. I was curious if this was intentional on Kirby's part or just a coincidence, so I emailed Mark Evanier to get his opinion or see if he had firsthand knowledge (he is great about making time to answer petty questions like this). Anyway, he replied that he didn't have firsthand knowledge, but he guessed it was not a deliberate homage. He also mentioned the fact about Kirby not laying out a lot of his own 70's Marvel covers, and he said this was one of the ones laid out by someone else.
Edited by Jason Czeskleba on 14 November 2006 at 8:58pm
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Marcus Kelligrew
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You want to see some Kirby Iron Man? From the '60s.....
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Joe Zhang
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That rocks.
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Erin Anna Leach
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Marcus, are those Tales to Astonish in Masterworks volumes?
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Marcus Kelligrew
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I got this story from Marvel's Greatest Battles book published by Fireside in the late '70s ( I think, I'm at work and can't check). I believe this story is from issue # 80. I can post the whole story later, if you want.
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Erin Anna Leach
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Nah, I'll track it down in reprint or original, but thanks Marcus.
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Gerry Turnbull
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some excellent Kirby covers from one of my favourite titles
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Gerry Turnbull
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