Doctor Strange: The Best Defense Vol 1 1

Part of the Best Defense arc
Doctor Strange: The Best Defense Vol 1 #1
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Art by: Ron Garney and Richard Isanove
Alternate Covers
1 - Textless 3 - Remastered Variant Textless 4 - Second Printing Variant 6 - Ward Variant Textless 7 - Young Variant
Art by: Ron Garney and Richard Isanove
Art by: Steve Ditko
Art by: Greg Smallwood
Art by: Christian Ward
Art by: Skottie Young
Release Date	December 12, 2018
Cover Date	February, 2019
Issue Details
Editor-in-Chief	C.B. Cebulski
Rating	T+ (13 and up)
Original Price	$4.99
Pages	40

1st story
Writer(s)	Gerry Duggan
Penciler(s)	Greg Smallwood
Inker(s)	Greg Smallwood
Colorist(s)	Greg Smallwood
Letterer(s)	Cory Petit
Editor(s)	Tom Brevoort Alanna Smith

 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)

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)
• Silver Surfer (Mentioned)
• Unidentified killer (Deceased)
• Unidentified alien (Only appearance; dies)
• 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:

• Earth-TRN851 (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

• Synopsis not yet written

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?

See Also

• 15 image(s) from Doctor Strange: The Best Defense Vol 1 1

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