Comic Book: Secret Defenders, The (1993 series)

Description:
The original Defenders are long-since disbanded, so Dr Strange starts his own group with team members hand-picked for each mission. At issue #15, Strange turns the team over to Dr. Anthony Druid who controls the group for the rest of the book's run.

Data Sheet:

Mar 1993 to Mar 1995

1993

N/A

Characters most frequently found in this comic book:
In order of appearances.

Defenders

Doctor Strange
(Dr Strange)

Geatar

Plus: Bucky (Julia Winters).

Secret Defenders, The #1
(Mar 1993)

Comics Index

Indexed Comics: 25

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Secret Defenders, The #1

March 1993
"A Gathering of Heroes"
Script: Roy Thomas
The depowered Dr. Strange detects a threat to Earth so he uses his special Tarot deck to choose a team to fight the menace. The deck also suggests where this threat shall appear… …in Phoenix, Arizona. [...]

Secret Defenders, The #2

April 1993
"Second Chance"
Script: Roy Thomas
Secret Defenders Spider-Woman and Wolverine have defeated new bad guys Tokamak and Decimator in an alley in Phoenix, only to be confronted by the slinky Dreadlox. [...]

Secret Defenders, The #3

May 1993
"Swarm Song"
Script: Roy Thomas
The Defenders (Wolverine, Nomad, and Spider-Woman) are held at bay by Macabre, threatening to age to death her prisoners Tabitha and Chris Powell, the latter being Darkhawk in his real persona. The heroes surrender and are then blasted into unconsciousness by Tokamak. [...]

Secret Defenders, The #4

June 1993
"Roadkill!"
Script: Roy Thomas
On a rainy night in the American Midwest, a trucker runs down a cat. He goes out to see if it’s all right and he is seized by a hulking brute named Roadkill who demands to know if he is the driver who killed him. [...]

Secret Defenders, The #5

July 1993
"Get Your Kicks on Route 666!"
Script: Roy Thomas
[...]

Secret Defenders, The #6

August 1993
"The Winds of Watoomb"
Script: Roy Thomas
In the New Bedlam Asylum for the Criminally Inclined, one inmate, the sorcerer Xandu, finally achieves his goal: he has summoned the powerful Wand of Watoomb to him and he frees himself from his straitjacket and dons his familiar wizard’s garb and monocle. [...]

Secret Defenders, The #7

September 1993
"The Queen, My Lord, is Dead"
Script: Roy Thomas
The Winds of Watoomb are devastating Manhattan accompanied by violent lightning strikes. Captain America and the police are on the scene at the mercy of the evil elements; Cap tries to explain what is going on to the lead detective but he knows it can only get worse…. [...]

Secret Defenders, The #8

October 1993
"She Should Have Died Hereafter…"
Script: Roy Thomas
As Captain America tries to stop the hordes of walking dead in Manhattan, Xandu is in the Death Dimension, holding Dr. Strange, Spider-Man, and Scarlet Witch at bay with the powers of the Wand of Watoomb. Melinda Morrison begs Xandu to stop but Earth and the Death Dimension continue to merge. [...]

Secret Defenders, The #9

November 1993
"Revenge Part One"
Script: Ron Marz
At his Sanctum Sanctorum, Doctor Strange receives a visit from the Silver Surfer. SS explains that he has some unfinished business and needs Strange’s help. The problem is Nebula, the space pirate who SS has encountered several times. [...]

Secret Defenders, The #10

December 1993
"Revenge Part II"
Script: Ron Marz
On Phobos, Nebula is set to launch a fusion-reaction bomb with the Silver Surfer chained to it at her enemies on Titan. Thunderstrike and War Machine are facing her giant monster lieutenants Kurg and Kruk, whose nerve endings have been cauterized, so they feel no pain. [...]

Secret Defenders, The #11

January 1994
"Speed-Lines"
Script: Ron Marz
Story continues from QUASAR #54. Nova flies to Dr. Strange’s Sanctum Sanctorum to discover the place a ruin. He begins to sift through the rubble when Strange appears to him in astral form. Nova is startled and Strange is very unwelcoming, insisting Nova should leave. [...]

Secret Defenders, The #12

February 1994
"Pawns"
Script: Ron Marz
Geatar wants to know why Thanos saved his life at the end of last issue. The Titanian says it's because he has a job for him. Geatar says Thanos killed him before (Silver Surfer #38) so why should he trust him. The Titan replies that his death served a purpose then (see SS#38). [...]

Secret Defenders, The #13

March 1994
"Holy war"
Script: Ron Marz
Last issue Thanos shanghaied 5 villains and sent them to planet H'aarg to kidnap the Oracle Of Ancient Knowledge from his monastery. But the monks are well-armed fanatics who are overwhelming them. Nitro does his blowing up trick to take some of them out. [...]

Secret Defenders, The #14

April 1994
"Escape"
Script: Ron Marz
Thanos, having shanghaied five villains and transported them to the planet Ha’arg to kidnap the Oracle of Ancient Knowledge from his monastery, has taken the Oracle and abandoned his secret defenders to the wrath of the monks. [...]

Secret Defenders, The #15

May 1994
"Strange Changes Part the First: Strangers and Other Lovers"
Script:
Dr. Strange turns the Tarot card to select a new team of Secret Defenders. His own card turns up, causing him to reflect that the Fates possess a sense of humor. As he is tied up with the War of the Seven Spheres, another must lead the Secret Defenders. [...]

Secret Defenders, The #16

June 1994
"Strange Changes Part the Second: Resurrection Tango"
Script:
The Secret Defenders, Shadowoman, Luke Cage, and Deadpool are in the Chicago Museum of Art, battling the creatures from the artworks which have been brought to life by the sorceress Malachi. While Cage and ‘Pool bicker, Jillian finds out her powers don’t work against the monsters. But Dr. [...]

Secret Defenders, The #17

July 1994
"Strange Changes [Part 3]: On Borrowed Time"
Script:
The sorceress Malachi has used the Moebius Stone to unravel time and the effects are becoming known around the region: plants growing at accelerated rates, children growing older and the elderly getting younger in minutes, buildings collapsing after reverting to unbaked clay and mortar. [...]