Appearing in "And Who Shall Inherit the Earth?"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Celestial Man (Nebulon) (Apparent death) (Main story and flashback)
- Squadron Sinister
- Doctor Spectrum (Apparent death)
- Whizzer (Apparent death)
- Hyperion (Apparent death) (Main story and flashback)
- Ice Monster (Construct) (First appearance; destruction)
Other Characters:
- Barbara (Possessed by Valkyrie)
- Doctor Spectrum's Power Prism (Krimonn) (Behind the scenes) (Unconscious)
- Grandmaster (Mentioned)
- Thor (Odinson) (Only in recap)
Races and Species:
- Mutant Atlantean-Human Hybrids
- Humans
- Asgardians (Main story and recap)
- Ul'lula'ns (Unnamed)
- Skrulls (Behind the scenes) (Unconscious)
Locations:
- Earthspace
- Earth
- Arctic Circle
- Madison Avenue, New York City, New York, United States of America (Mentioned in narration)
- 57th Street, New York City, New York, United States of America (Mentioned in narration)
- Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, New York, United States of America (Mentioned in narration)
- Africa (Only in recap)
- Egypt (Only in recap)
- Earth
- Microverse (Vision or hallucination) (Only in flashback)
- Yttrium (Vision or hallucination) (Only in flashback) (Unnamed)
Items:
- Dragonfang
- Cloak of Levitation and Eye of Agamotto
- Doctor Spectrum's Power Prism
- Mjolnir (Only in recap)
- Unidentified Laser Cannon
- Spells
Vehicles:
- Nebulon's Spacecraft (Only in flashback)
Synopsis for "And Who Shall Inherit the Earth?"
With the Defenders prisoner of the Squadron Sinister and Nebulon, Hyperion explains how Nebulon recruited and rescued him from the sub-atomic world in which he was banished to by Thor. When Nighthawk tries to prevent the Squadron from executing the Defenders, he is placed in the prison globe with them, and Nebulon has it shot into space.
Freeing themselves, the Defenders battle the Squadron and Nebulon, during the course of the battle Dr. Strange blasts Nebulon with a mystic bolt that reveals the alien's true form. With everyone shocked by the true form of Nebulon, Nighthawk uses the moment to fire the ray used to melt the icecaps at Nebulon, the resulting explosion seemingly destroys Nebulon and the other Squadron Sinister members. The device explodes seriously injuring Nighthawk, however he is healed by Dr. Strange, and accepted into the ranks of the Defenders.
Notes
Publication Notes[]
- No letters page is published this issue.
- Page one credits Irving Forbush -Kibitzer.