Immortal Hulk: The Best Defense Vol 1 1

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Published	Released
February, 2019	December 5, 2018
Issue Details
	Pages 40 Rating T+ (13 and up) Original Price $4.99
"The Face Underneath"
	Writer Al Ewing; Stan Lee; Penciler Simone Di Meo; Jack Kirby; Steve Ditko; Inker Simone Di Meo; Paul Reinman; Dick Ayers; Colourist Dono Sánchez-Almara; Letterer Cory Petit; Artie Simek; Editor 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 "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)^[1]
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"

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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.

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Immortal Hulk: The Best Defense Vol 1 1

Appearing in "The Face Underneath"

Synopsis for "The Face Underneath"

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