Immortal Hulk: The Best Defense Vol 1 1

Part of the Best Defense arc
Immortal Hulk: The Best Defense Vol 1 #1
Previous Issue	Immortal Hulk #8 (Story)
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Art by: Ron Garney and Richard Isanove
Alternate Covers
1 - Textless 3 - Granov Variant Textless 5 - Remastered Variant Textless 6 - Second Printing Variant 8 - Young Variant 9 - Young Variant Textless
Art by: Ron Garney
Art by: Adi Granov
Art by: Jack Kirby
Art by: Simone Di Meo
Art by: Skottie Young
Art by: Skottie Young
Release Date	December 5, 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 Face Underneath"
Writer(s)	Al Ewing Stan Lee
Penciler(s)	Simone Di Meo Jack Kirby Steve Ditko
Inker(s)	Simone Di Meo Paul Reinman Dick Ayers
Colorist(s)	Dono Sánchez-Almara
Letterer(s)	Cory Petit Artie Simek
Editor(s)	Tom Brevoort Alanna Smith

 And now... knock, knock. Hnh. Who's there? 

—Hulk

Appearing in "The Face Underneath"

Featured Characters:

• Hulk (Bruce Banner) (Possessed by the One Below All-possessed Brian Banner) (Main story and recap)

Antagonists:

• Unnamed New Mexican (First appearance)
• Happy Trails Marshal's Office (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
• "Mister Eye" (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)

Other Characters:

• U.S. Army (Recap)
• Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange) (First appearance; corpse and ghost) (Main story and flashback)
• Agamemnon (Referenced)
• Agamotto (Referenced)
• Tony Stark (Referenced)
• Carol Danvers (Referenced)
• Unidentified alien (Only appearance; dies)
• Unidentified killer (Deceased)
• Rick Jones (Recap)
• Igor Drenkov (Recap)
• Unnamed New Mexican's mother (First appearance)
• Betty Ross (Recap)
• God (Yahweh) (Mentioned)
• Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange) (Mentioned)

Races and Species:

• Humans (Main story and flashback)
• Demons
• Snakes
• Unidentified alien species
• Ul'lula'ns
• Tribbitites (Recap)

Locations:

• Milky Way (Main story and flashback)
  • Solar System (Main story and flashback)
    • Earth (Main story and flashback)
      • United States of America (Main story and flashback)
        • New Mexico (Main story and flashback)
          • Los Diablos Missile Base (Recap)
          • Happy Trails (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
            • Happy Trails Marshal's Office (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
            • Rawhide Saloon (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
          • Hulk's Cave (Recap)
        • Sanctum Sanctorum, Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York, New York (Referenced)
      • Earth Orbit (Recap)
• Rimworlds (Referenced)

Items:

• Cloak of Levitation and Eye of Agamotto (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)

Vehicles:

• The Train (First appearance) (Unnamed)
• Toadship (Recap)

Synopsis for "The Face Underneath"

• Synopsis not yet written

Solicit Synopsis

“THE BEST DEFENSE” STARTS HERE!

• Stephen Strange is dead. A charred skeleton in an abandoned barn on the edge of a deserted town.

• Bruce Banner wants to know why. And he won’t stop until he has the truth in his hands…

• …with or without THE IMMORTAL HULK.

See Also

• 17 image(s) from Immortal Hulk: The Best Defense Vol 1 1

Recommended Reading

• Incredible Hulk #1 — 3 & #6

Links and References

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