Namor: The Best Defense Vol 1 1

Part of the "Best Defense" story arc Alternate Covers: Textless Checchetto Variant Textless Second Printing Variant Stevens Variant Textless Young Variant Young Variant Textless Namor: The Best Defense Vol 1 #1 Published Released February, 2019 December 5, 2018 Issue Details Pages 40 Rating T+ (13 and up) Original Price $4.99 Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski Cover Artist Ron Garney Richard Isanove Production Carlos Lao Alan Fine Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada President Dan Buckley 1st story Writer Chip Zdarsky Penciler Carlos Magno Inker Carlos Magno Colourist Ian Herring Letterer Travis Lanham Editor Tom Brevoort Alanna Smith Previous Issue Next Issue Immortal Hulk: The Best Defense #1 (Story) Doctor Strange: The Best Defense #1 (Story)

Appearing in 1st story

Featured Characters:

• King Namor the Sub-Mariner

Supporting Characters:

• Council of Atlantis (First appearance)
  • Crostahl (First appearance)
  • Kallthro (First appearance)
  • Unnamed other (First appearance)
• Atlantean Army
• Machan (First appearance)
• Kataw (First appearance)

Antagonists:

• Vodani Army (First appearance)
• King Okun (Only appearance; dies)^[1]
• The Skrilkrak (Only appearance; dies)^[1]

Other Characters:

• Avengers (Mentioned)
• Kallthro's grandfather (Mentioned)
• Defenders of the Deep (Mentioned)
• Luftwaffe (Recap)
• U.S. Army (Recap)
• Unidentified aliens (Only appearance; death)
• Unidentified killer (Deceased)
• Princess Fen (Mentioned)
• Leonard McKenzie (Mentioned)
• Nazis (Referenced)
• Silver Surfer (Norrin Radd) (Behind the scenes)

Races and Species:

• Atlanteans / Vodani
• Atlantean-Human Hybrids
• Fish
• Whales
• Turtles
• Sharks
• Comb Jellies (First appearance)
• Unidentified alien species
• Ul'lula'ns
• Humans (Mentioned)
• Giant Squids
• Zenn-Lavians (Behind the scenes)

Locations:

• Prime Marvel Universe (Main story and recap)
  • Milky Way (Main story and recap)
    • Solar System (Main story and recap)
      • Earth (Main story and recap)
        • Atlantic Ocean
          • Atlantis
        • Pacific Ocean
          • Mindanao Trench
        • France (Recap)
    • Vodan (First appearance)
      • Canyons of Sorrow (First appearance)

Items:

• Trident of Neptune
• Power Cosmic

Vehicles:

• Namor's submarine
• The Train (Unnamed)
• Silver Surfer's Surfboard

Events:

• Avengers World Tour (Mentioned)
• World War II (Recap)
  
  

Synopsis for 1st story

Solicit Synopsis

“THE BEST DEFENSE” PART TWO!

• The Monarch of the Oceans has declared war once more on the surface world in the pages of AVENGERS. And if this is a war that Namor means to win, he is going to need allies to stand beside him!

• The Sub-Mariner’s quest for a lost tribe of sea-dwellers carries him further than he ever thought possible—and to a reckoning both strange and wonderful!

• And hey, what’s up with that weird apparition in the sheet, anyway?

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