Defenders: The Best Defense Vol 1 1

Part of the Best Defense arc
Defenders: The Best Defense Vol 1 #1
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Art by: Ron Garney and Richard Isanove
Alternate Covers
1 - Textless 2 - Adams Variant 3 - Remastered Wraparound Variant 4 - Schiti Variant 6 - Young Variant Textless
Art by: Ron Garney and Richard Isanove
Art by: Arthur Adams
Art by: Sal Buscema
Art by: Valerio Schiti
Art by: Skottie Young
Release Date	December 19, 2018
Cover Date	February, 2019
Issue Details
Editor-in-Chief	C.B. Cebulski
Rating	T+ (13 and up)
Original Price	$4.99
Pages	40

1. "The Throne, the Power, the Damned and the Devil"
Writer(s)	Al Ewing
Penciler(s)	Joe Bennett
Inker(s)	Belardino Brabo
Colorist(s)	Dono Sánchez-Almara
Letterer(s)	Clayton Cowles
Editor(s)	Tom Brevoort Alanna Smith

 Another exciting non-team-up for the Defenders. Let's all have shawarma sometime. 

—King Namor the Sub-Mariner

Appearing in "The Throne, the Power, the Damned and the Devil"

Featured Characters:

• Silver Surfer (Norrin Radd)
• Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange) (Ghost in main story and appears in recap)
• Hulk (Bruce Banner) (Possessed by the One Below All-possessed Brian Banner)
• King Namor the Sub-Mariner

Supporting Characters:

• Mephisto
• Galactus

Antagonists:

• The Conductor (Temporarily controlled by Nebulon and possessed by Doctor Strange)
• Nebulon (Deceased) (Identity revealed; possessed by Borss and Mog'rys)
• Borss (First appearance) (Death) (Possesses Nebulon)
• Mog'rys (First appearance) (Death) (Possesses Nebulon)
• Queen Kataw (Death)

Other Characters:

• Nebulon (Mentioned)
• Celesital Mind Control Movement (Mentioned)
• "Mister Eye" (Unconscious)
• Galactus (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
• Hulk (Bruce Banner) (Recap)
• Spirit-Flayers of Carcosa (Mentioned)
• One Below All (Mentioned)
• Sedna (Invoked)
• Vodani Army
• King Okun (Mentioned) (Deceased)
• Heralds of Galactus (Mentioned)
• Isaac Newton (Referenced)
• Defenders (Mentioned)
• Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange) (Mentioned)

Races and Species:

• Celestials
• Ul'lula'ns
• Zenn-Lavians
• Humans (Main story and recap)
• Demons
• Cosmic Beings (Main story and flashback)
• Atlantean-Human Hybrids
• Vodani / Atlanteans
• Gods (Mentioned)

Locations:

• Prime Marvel Universe
  • Milky Way
    • Sol System
      • Earth
        • United States of America
          • New Mexico
            • Happy Trails
              • Rawhide Saloon
    • Vodan
  • Below-Place (Mentioned)
  • Hell
  • Carcosa (Mentioned)
  • Mephisto's Realm
• Unidentified reality (Only in flashback)
  • Milky Way (Only in flashback)
    • Sol System (Recap)
      • Earth (Recap)
        • Sanctum Sanctorum, Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA (Referenced) (Destroyed)

Items:

• Power Cosmic (Main story and flashback)
• Eye of Agamotto

Vehicles:

• The Train (Main story and flashback)
• Silver Surfer's Surfboard

Synopsis for "The Throne, the Power, the Damned and the Devil"

• Synopsis not yet written

Solicit Synopsis

“THE BEST DEFENSE” FINALE!

• The lost Atlanteans. The Train. The bedsheet man. Dead Steve. The Stock Exchange of Souls. Trust us, it all makes sense.

• In fact, it makes enough sense to destroy our entire solar system… Unless four very different heroes can come together to stop it.

See Also

• 19 image(s) from Defenders: The Best Defense Vol 1 1

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