Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
- Silver Surfer (Norrin Radd) (Main story and flashback) (Origin in recap)
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Roxxon
- Scab Tongue's crew (First appearance)
- Scab Tongue (First appearance)
- Unidentified sisterhood (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Conductor (First appearance) (Vision in main story and appears in flashback)
- Goldie's brothers (Only appearance; corpses)
- Goldie's father (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- House of X'anth (First appearance)
- X'anth (First appearance)
- Unnamed others (First appearance)
- Oversoul (Invoked)
- Heralds of Galactus (Mentioned)
- Fantastic Four (Only in recap)
- Human Torch (Johnny Storm) (Only in recap)
- Thing (Ben Grimm) (Only in recap)
- Mister Fantastic (Reed Richards) (Only in recap)
- Invisible Girl (Sue Richards) (Only in recap)
- King Namor the Sub-Mariner (Vision or hallucination)
- Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange) (Vision or hallucination)
- Hulk (Bruce Banner) (Possessed by the One Below All-possessed Brian Banner in vision)
- Unidentified killer (Vision or hallucination) (Deceased)
Races and Species:
- Cosmic Beings (Main story and flashback)
- Celestials (Vision in main story and appears in flashback)
- Zenn-Lavians (Main story and flashback)
- Humans (Main story and recap)
- Centaurians (Main story and flashback)
- Unidentified alien species
- Skrulls
- Alien Gods (Mentioned)
- Kymellians
- Mutant Atlantean-Human Hybrids (Vision or hallucination)
- Demons (Vision or hallucination)
- Ul'lula'ns (Vision or hallucination)
Locations:
- Prime Marvel Universe (Main story and flashback)
- Earthspace (Main story and flashback)
- Milky Way (Main story and flashback)
- Unidentified planet (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Endless Desert (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Seven Basins (Mentioned)
- Western Salt Hills (Mentioned)
- Seven Basins (Mentioned)
- Endless Desert (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Deneb (Only in recap)
- Zenn-La (Only in recap)
- Solar System (Only in recap)
- Earth (Only in recap)
- United States of America (Only in recap)
- New York (Only in recap)
- New York City (Only in recap)
- Manhattan (Only in recap)
- Midtown (Only in recap)
- 42nd Street (Only in recap)
- Baxter Building (Only in recap)
- 42nd Street (Only in recap)
- Midtown (Only in recap)
- Manhattan (Only in recap)
- New York City (Only in recap)
- New York (Only in recap)
- United States of America (Only in recap)
- Earth (Only in recap)
- Vodan
- Unidentified planet (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Milky Way (Main story and flashback)
- Hell (Invoked)
- Earthspace (Main story and flashback)
Items:
- Power Cosmic (Main story and flashback)
- Yaka Arrows
- Salt Bucks (First appearance; destruction)
- Fantastic Four Uniforms (Main story and recap)
- Trident of Neptune (Vision or hallucination)
- Cloak of Levitation and Eye of Agamotto (Vision or hallucination)
Vehicles:
- Train (Name revealed) (Only in flashback)
- Silver Surfer's Surfboard (Main story and flashback)
- Scab Tongue's ship (First appearance)
Synopsis for 1st story
In the spaceport of a dying world, ruffians fight each other for the money necessary to get aboard the last spaceship off-world before the planet is harvested by a giant cosmic death train. Pretty much everyone on the planet is desperate and violent, and a fight breaks out between a little girl and a group of bandits. A hooded stranger breaks up the fight, revealing himself to be Silver Surfer in disguise. Silver Surfer tries to deescalate the fight peacefully, but the little girl kills the lead bandit so she can leave. Silver Surfer reveals in flashback that his master Galactus was going to eat the planet before the train destroyed it unless Silver Surfer could find someone worth saving. Ultimately, in the present, he could not, thanks to the little girl’s murderous tendencies, so Galactus devours the planet. Silver Surfer then realizes that the train is going to destroy the Earth and he must stop it. However, before he can do anything, his board flies off into space.
Solicit Synopsis
“THE BEST DEFENSE” PART FOUR!
• Shall not the Judge of All the Earths do right?
• Norrin Radd is not so certain.
• But it falls to him who is the Silver Surfer to decide which planets will live…and which will feed the unending hunger of the world-devouring Galactus!
• A single honest person can tip the balance…if only the Surfer can find one in time!
• And the Train rolls on…See Also
- 23 image(s) from Silver Surfer: The Best Defense Vol 1 1
- 1 reprint(s) of Silver Surfer: The Best Defense Vol 1 1