Dates
- Cover date
- 2024
- On sale
- June 26, 2024
- Pages
- 468
Editions and covers
Creators
Stories
- The Titan Strikes Back! · 19 pages
Xemnu the Titan returns and takes over a small town before being stopped by the Defenders.
- The Way They Were! [Prologue] · 3 pages
Valkyrie learns the origins of the Hulk, Namor and Doctor Strange and the Defenders stop Rasputin.
- [The Way They Were] Part 1: Banished to Outer Space · 11 pages
The military captures Rick and Ross convinces him that they need the Hulk to test a new experimental rocket for national security. Rick tricks the jade giant into the capsule but once it is shot into space, he realizes that Ross deceived him to get rid of his foe. Rick overrides the programming and returns the rocket to earth but not before Banner (he transformed back to his human form when the rocket came into view of the sun) is doused with further radiation. The Hulk is now unable to revert to his human form and is under Rick's control but only while Rick remains awake.
- The Way They Were!, Interlude 1 · 1 pages
- [The Way They Were] Part 2: Bird of Prey! · 4 pages
- The Way They Were!, Interlude 2 · 1 pages
- [The Way They Were] Part 3, To Catch a Magician! · 10 pages
- [The Way They Were] Part 4: The Once and Again Dooms · 4 pages
- Good Evening! This is the Eleventh-Hour Bullpen! · 0.67 pages
- For Sale: One Planet--Slightly Used! · 19 pages
After deciding to go straight Nighthawk comes to the Defenders for assistance in helping stop the Squadron Sinister from destroying the planet for Nebulon.
- And Who Shall Inherit the Earth? · 20 pages
The Defenders stop the Squadron Sinister and Nebulon from destroying the Earth.
- Panic Beneath the Earth! · 18 pages
The Defenders battle against the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. During the battle Magneto finishes his creation of Alpha the Ultimate Mutant.
- Alpha, the Ultimate Mutant! · 18 pages
Magneto creates Alpha the Ultimate Mutant. Alpha turns the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants into infants.
- H...as in Hulk...Hell...and Holocaust! · 30 pages
The Defenders, with the help of the Son of Satan, stop Asmodeus and Satannish.
- Power Play! · 18 pages
Valkyrie leaves the team to learn more about Barbara, the girl the Enchantress bonded with her. Hulk, upset that Val left the team, also leaves. The remaining Defenders, Dr. Strange and Nighthawk, along with Power Man who was hired by Pennyworth, try to stop the Wrecking Crew from destroying a skyscraper that is owned by Kyle Richmond.
- Rampage! · 17 pages
The Defenders, with Hulk rejoining them, and Power Man battle the Wrecking Crew. The villains are actually looking for Thunderball's "gizmo". Valkyrie is in Cobbler's Roost, Vermont looking for information on Barbara.
- Doomball! · 18 pages
After taking Thunderball's Gamma Bomb from the Wrecking Crew the Defenders have to figure out how to defuse it.
- Death-Song of Destiny! · 18 pages
A mysterious woman is struck by a subway train, releasing the mystic power to bystanders to reveal their destiny.
- Name That Doom! · 17 pages
The Thing and Valkyrie stop Enchantress and the Executioner. The Thing saves the world with a supernatural harmonica.
- The Woman She Was...! · 18 pages
The Thing and the Defenders battle the Nameless Ones and Van Nyborg.
- Enter: The Headmen! · 18 pages
The Headmen unleash a wave of madness over the city to distract everyone while the commit jewel robberies.
- Games Godlings Play! · 32 pages
The Grandmaster and the Prime Mover play a game for the fate of the Earth. The Grandmaster selects the Defenders for his "pieces" and the Prime Mover selects several alien "pieces" and combat begins.
- Too Cold a Night For Dying! · 30 pages
The Defenders and Yellowjacket are on the trail of Egghead, who planted a bomb in the car of Kyle Richmond and injured both Richmond and Trixie Starr.
- Fangs of Fire and Blood! · 18 pages
Valkyrie learns about life among the poor, Nighthawk discovers he'd rather spend time with the Defenders than with his old crowd. The Sons of the Serpent begin to terrorize the poor.
- ..the Snakes Shall Inherit the Earth! · 18 pages
Sons of the Serpent reveal their agenda and battle the Defenders, capturing Dr. Strange, Valkyrie, Yellowjacket and Nighthawk.
- --In the Jaws of the Serpent! · 18 pages
With most of the Defenders captured by the Sons of the Serpent, Clea recruits more heroes to help stop the Sons of the Serpent.
- The Serpent Sheds Its Skin · 18 pages
Son of Satan and Power Man free the rest of the Defenders and follow the clues to find the person behind the Sons of the Serpent organization. The Elf with a gun kills Tom and Linda Pritchett.
- It Walks Erect! · 5 pages
A doctor who transplants ape organs into men to make them healthy is captured by apes who remove his head and place it on a gorilla's body.
- Prisoner of the Fantastic Fog · 4 pages
A man asks his gangster brother for money to perfect his shrink gas but when he can't get any he vents the gas outside and his brother walks into it and shrinks. He turns himself in to a police man but the effect is only temporary since the gas is not perfected.
- The Wrath of Chondu! · 3 pages
A mystic is accosted by an escaped convict on the road, but mentally sends him to Limbo.