—Doctor StrangeThis isn't the world we're used to. Same but different, in its ways, and in both, you're the kind of person who knows about secrets. And what's more secret than a secret that can hide itself?
Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
- Defenders
- Red She-Hulk (Betty Ross)
- Iron Fist (Danny Rand)
- Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange)
- Silver Surfer (Norrin Radd)
- Black Cat (Felicia Hardy)
Supporting Characters:
- S.H.I.E.L.D. (First appearance)
- Nick Fury (First appearance)
- Jasper Sitwell (First appearance)
- Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (First appearance)
- Numerous unnamed agents
- Prester Omega
Antagonists:
- Hydra (First appearance)
- Agent Pussycat (First appearance)
- Baron Strucker (Wolfgang von Strucker) (First appearance)
- Adolf Hitler (First appearance)
- Numerous unnamed agents
Other Characters:
- John Coltrane (Mentioned) (Deceased)
- Junior Juniper (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Humans
- Zenn-Lavians
- Omega (Unnamed)
- LMDs (First appearance)
- Ants (First appearance)
Locations:
- Earth-12109 (First appearance)
- Earth (First appearance)
- United States of America (First appearance)
- New York (First appearance)
- New York City (First appearance)
- The Hydra Club (First appearance)
- New York City (First appearance)
- New York (First appearance)
- United States of America (First appearance)
- Hell (Invoked)
- Earth (First appearance)
- Earth-11127
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Vehicles:
Synopsis for 1st story
The story opens in an alternate-universe 1968, with Red She-Hulk and Danny Rand acting as employees of The Hydra Club, a swanky yet somewhat shady New York City nightclub being patronized that night by the Nick Fury of that dimension. He is with Agent Pussycat, a glamorous blonde agent of HYDRA. Danny is bartending and Betty is posing as a very large, bright red cocktail waitress.
As Nick refuses a shot of whiskey from a man resembling Hitler, he touches Betty's shoulder, causing the world to go slightly 'off.' Nick Fury and Agent Pussycat go off elsewhere.
In a subway station, Doctor Strange, the Silver Surfer, and the Black Cat are waiting by a Concordance Engine for the others to return with Fury. Impatient, Black Cat goes out to bring him in personally. She subdues him with ether moments after he and a team of Life Model Decoys foil Agent Pussycat's plot to murder him. He awakens in the Defenders' custody. Strange explains that they needed his help but were unable to contact him directly. Though seeming a bit clouded in his thoughts, Fury takes most of this in stride.
The Surfer detects HYDRA tracer perfume on Nick's collar, and between that and a SHIELD tracker hidden in Fury's tooth, the subway station is abruptly filled with SHIELD and HYDRA agents. The Silver Surfer communicates to the guardian Prester that the Concordance Engine is endangered and asks him to send them home. Elsewhere in the melee, Fury confronts and corners the man who resembles Hitler, and fires a shot just as the Engine whisks him out of that dimension with the Defenders.
They arrive in a giant world, or perhaps they are simply very small.
Solicit Synopsis
• The Concordance Engine unleashed!
• The Defenders.... lost in infinite space-time without a map!
• What alternate universe will they find first? And who is waiting for them?Trivia
- Agent Pussycat is a character that originally appeared in The Adventures of Pussycat comic magazine collected by Martin Goodman's Magazine Management Company, a sister company of Marvel Comics.