The Defenders (vol. 1) #80 (Feb. 1980):
“Once a Defender”
by Ed Hannigan, Herb Trimpe, Dan Green

The Defenders (vol. 1) #80

Title: “Once a Defender”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Feb. 1980

Publisher:
Written by: Ed Hannigan
Art by: Herb Trimpe, Dan Green

24 characters in this story:

Character (Click links for info about character and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)	Religious Affiliation	Team(s) [Notes]	Pub.	# app.
The Hulk (Bruce Banner)	Catholic (lapsed)	Hulkbusters; Pantheon...  Secret Defenders; The Avengers; The Defenders; The Order; The Ultimates; Warbound; Weapon X (Exiles); X-Saviours		4,551
The Sub-Mariner (Namor)	Atlantean Greco-Roman classical religion	Atlantean; Dark X-Men...  human; Illuminati; The All-Winners Squad; The Avengers; The Cabal; The Defenders; The Invaders; The Order; X-Men		1,864
Doctor Strange (Dr. Stephen Strange)	occult	Illuminati; Midnight Sons...  Secret Defenders; The Avengers; The Defenders; The Order		1,687
Yellowjacket (Hank Pym)	atheist	Commission on Superhuman Activities; Secret Defenders...  The Avengers; The Defenders; The Liberators		1,543
The Wasp (Janet van Dyne)	Dutch Reformed (nominal); atheist	Lady Liberators; The Avengers...  The Ultimates		1,339
Clea	occult	The Defenders [disciple/former girlfriend of Doctor Strange]		222
Valkyrie (Brunnhilde)	Norse/Teutonic paganism (Asgardian)	The Defenders [former Chooser of the Slain]		325
Nighthawk (Kyle Richmond)		Redeemers (Earth-712); Redeemers...  Secret Avengers; Squadron Sinister; Squadron Supreme; The Defenders; The Thunderbolts		361
Hellcat (Patsy Walker)		Lady Liberators; Legion of Unliving...  The Avengers; The Defenders		656
Aragorn	N.A.	horse [winged steed of Black Knight (Whitman), Valkyrie]		105
Mandrill (Jerome Beechman)		Black Spectre (leader); Crossfire's Mind Control Gang...  Hood's Army; Mutant Force		61
Peeper (Peter Quinn)	Latter-day Saint (lapsed); radical mutant rights activist	Brotherhood of Mutants; Mutant Force...  The 198; The Resistants		36
Burner (Byron Calley)	mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutants; Mutant Force...  The Resistants [terrorist, mutant rights activist]		21
Lifter (Ned Lathrop)	mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutants; Mutant Force...  The Resistants		17
Shocker (Randall Darby)	mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutants; Mutant Force...  The Resistants		20
Slither (Aaron Solomon)	mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutants; Fangs...  Mutant Force; Serpent Society; The Resistants		22
Ruth Hart	hippie	[friend of Richard Rory, Man-Thing, Omega the Unknown]		22
Aeroika	Winged One religion	Winged One [fought the Unnameable in fulfilment of Winged One prophecy]		6
Fem-Force		[black warrior mental slaves of Mandrill]		7
Amber Grant		[James-Michael Starling's friend/classmate]		18
Dian Wilkins		[James-Michael Starling's classmate/friend]		12
Buzzard People	alien	[sorcerer Ytitnedion was one of them]		5
Ytitnedion	sorcerer	Buzzard People [faithfully served the Unnameable]		5
The Unnamed One (mentioned)	alien deity	[god and ruler of Tunnelworld; sorcerer]		9

This story was indexed from secondary sources only. The character list above is not necessarily comprehensive. Webpage for The Defenders #80 (Feb. 1980) created 27 August 2010. Last modified 26 December 2013.

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