Namor: The Best Defense Vol 1 1

Part of the Best Defense arc
Namor: The Best Defense Vol 1 #1
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Next Issue	Doctor Strange: The Best Defense #1 (Story)
Art by: Ron Garney and Richard Isanove
Alternate Covers
1 - Textless 3 - Checchetto Variant Textless 4 - Second Printing Variant 6 - Stevens Variant Textless 8 - Young Variant 9 - Young Variant Textless
Art by: Ron Garney
Art by: Marco Checchetto
Art by: Carlos Magno
Art by: Christopher Stevens
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

1st story
Writer(s)	Chip Zdarsky
Penciler(s)	Carlos Magno
Inker(s)	Carlos Magno
Colorist(s)	Ian Herring
Letterer(s)	Travis Lanham
Editor(s)	Tom Brevoort Alanna Smith

 The surface has developed creatures and men with great power! They will attempt to destroy not only Atlantis, but Vodan as well! I will not allow it! We can't allow it! 

—King Namor the Sub-Mariner

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)
• The Skrilkrak (Only appearance; dies)

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) (First full appearance)
• Silver Surfer's Surfboard

Events:

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

Synopsis for 1st story

• Synopsis not yet written

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?

See Also

• 19 image(s) from Namor: The Best Defense Vol 1 1
• 1 reprint(s) of Namor: The Best Defense Vol 1 1

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