Les Défenseurs

Arédit-Artima’s Les Défenseurs (1981–1984) collected the American Defenders series for French readers across 11 issues, with the bulk of the material written by J. M. DeMatteis, Ed Hannigan, and David Anthony Kraft, and illustrated by Don Perlin, Keith Giffen, and Joe Sinnott. This French-language edition brought the quirky, street-level superhero team to a new audience, preserving the offbeat camaraderie and cosmic threats that defined the original run. It stands as a notable example of how European publishers localized US superhero comics during the early ’80s.