Doctor Strange: The Best Defense Vol 1 1

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Issue Details
	Pages 40 Rating T+ (13 and up) Original Price $4.99
1st story
	Writer Gerry Duggan; Penciler Greg Smallwood; Inker Greg Smallwood; Colourist Greg Smallwood; Letterer Cory Petit; Editor Tom Brevoort; Alanna Smith;

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If I can succeed in warning the Defenders to change course -- then Dormammu's reign on Earth will never happen.

-- Doctor Strange

Appearing in 1st story

Featured Characters:

Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange) (First full appearance) (Main story and flashback) (Death)

Supporting Characters:

Hulk (Bruce Banner) (Only appearance; disembodied head) (Death)

Antagonists:

Demons (Only appearance; death)
Dormammu (Only appearance; dies)^[1]

Other Characters:

Agamotto (Referenced)
Watoomb (Invoked)
Cyttorak (Mentioned)
Vishanti (Invoked)
Clea (First appearance; astral projection) (Only in flashback)
Nightmare (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
Dreamstalker (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
Unidentified killer (Deceased)
Unidentified alien (Only appearance; dies)^[1]
Defenders (Mentioned)
Council of Watchers
Defenders (Referenced)
Dormammu (Referenced)

Races and Species:

Humans (Main story and flashback)
Demons
Faltine-Mhuruuk Hybrids (Only in flashback)
Demons of Everinnye (Only in flashback)
Horses (Only in flashback)
Ul'lula'ns
Unidentified alien species
Faltine
Watchers

Locations:

Unidentified reality (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
  - United States of America (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
    - New York (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
      - New York City (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
        Manhattan (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
        Greenwich Village (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
        Bleecker Street (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
        Sanctum Sanctorum (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
  - Earth Orbit (First appearance)
- Dreamtime (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
  - Dimension of Dreams (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
    - Nightmare World (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Hell (Invoked)
Prime Marvel Universe
- Milky Way
  - Solar System
    - Earth
      - Earth Orbit
      - United States of America
        New Mexico
        Happy Trails

Items:

Cloak of Levitation and Eye of Agamotto (First full appearance) (Main story and flashback)
Winds of Watoomb (First appearance)
Crimson Bands of Cyttorak (Mentioned)
Flames of the Faltine (First appearance)

Vehicles:

Silver Surfer's Surfboard (First appearance)
The Train (Unnamed)

Synopsis for 1st story

Solicit Synopsis

“THE BEST DEFENSE” PART THREE!

• In a desolate, barren landscape, the Master of the Mystic Arts fights what may well prove to be his final battle—alone, unaided, friendless…

• Except…what’s in that bag that Stephen Strange is carrying with him?

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Doctor Strange: The Best Defense Vol 1 1

Appearing in 1st story

Synopsis for 1st story

Solicit Synopsis

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Footnotes