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Doctor Strange: The Best Defense #1

Marvel · Series began 2019 · February 2019

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Dates

Cover date: February 2019
On sale: December 12, 2018
In stores: December 12, 2018
Pages: 40

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Editions and covers (9)

Copies of #1 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Original edition

Barcode 75960609230700111
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2nd printing

Second Printing

Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.

Barcode 75960609230700112
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Skottie Young variant

Barcode 75960609230700141
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Christian Ward

Barcode 75960609230700131
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Remastered Variant CoverMetron
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Second Printing Variant Cover

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Story arc: The Best Defense

This is part 3 of 5. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.

Creators

pencils: Ron Garney, Greg Smallwoodinks: Ron Garney, Greg Smallwoodcolors: Richard Isanove, Greg Smallwoodscript: Gerry Dugganletters: Cory Petit

Stories

Untitled · 30 pages
In a future Earth ravaged by Dormammu's spawn, Strange tricks Dormammu on feeding energy to the Hulk's head, transforming him into a bomb that destroys Dormammu. Riding the energy unleashed with a piece of the Silver Surfer's board, he escapes the Earth into the past to prevent this future though only his astral form survives the process.

Publisher’s description

In a desolate, barren landscape, the Master of the Mystic Arts fights what may well prove to be his final battle—alone, unaided, friendless…except…what’s in that bag that Stephen Strange is carrying with him?

Characters

Bruce BannerHulkStephen StrangeDoctor StrangeCleaDormammuNightmareNebulon

Reprinted in

Defenders: The Best Defense (2019)