The Order (vol. 1) #1 (Apr. 2002):
“The Best Defense...”
by Jo Duffy, Kurt Busiek, Matt Haley, Dan Panosian

The Order (vol. 1) #1

Title: “The Best Defense...”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Apr. 2002

Publisher:
Written by: Jo Duffy, Kurt Busiek
Art by: Matt Haley, Dan Panosian

15 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.
Joe Fixit (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
Silver Surfer (Norrin Radd)	Zenn-La religion	Heralds of Galactus; Secret Defenders...  Star Masters; The Defenders; The Order; Zenn-Lavian		826
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
Valkyrie (Samantha Parrington)	Norse/Teutonic paganism; former radical Feminist	Lady Liberators; The Defenders		26
Papa Hagg	Vodoun mystic	[Nighthawk enlisted him to remove his demonic powers]		11
Reginald Parrington		[father of Samantha (Valkyrie)]		7
Malicia Parrington		[mother of Samantha (Valkyrie)]		7
Springthorpe		[butler]		1
The Order		[short-lived Defenders off-shoot]		6
Gaia (Gaea) (cameo)	Gaian	Kami	, etc.	33
Yandroth (behind the scenes)	Nihilist	[1st app: Strange Tales (vol. 1) #164]		5

This publication is also known as: The Defenders (vol. 2) #13. The cover of The Order #1 features two issue numbers. It also has a "13" because this is essentially The Defenders (vol. 2) #13.

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