Defensor (comics)

Defensor
Publication information
Publisher Marvel Comics
First appearance Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions #1 (Jun 1982)
Created by Mark Gruenwald, Bill Mantlo, Steven Grant, and John Romita, Jr.
In-story information
Alter ego Gabriel Carlos Dantes Sepulveda

Defensor is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Publication history

Defensor first appeared in Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions #1 (June 1982). He also appeared in issues #2-3 of the series (July–August 1982).

The character subsequently appeared in The Incredible Hulk Vol. 2 #279 (January 1983), and his death was revealed in Captain America #422 (December 1993).

Defensor received an entry in the original Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #3.

Fictional character biography

Gabriel Carlos Dantes Sepulveda was born in Córdoba, Argentina. He was a construction worker operating an excavating machine digging the foundation for an apartment building in Córdoba, when he unearthed the entrance to a hidden underground passageway. He later sneaked back to the construction site at night and began to explore the labyrinth of catacombs beneath. In one of the chambers he found a suit of armor resembling that of the Spanish conquistadores of the Sixteenth Century. He decided to use this vibranium armor to be a champion of the people.

Later he was teleported away by the Grandmaster, along with hundreds of other heroes of Earth, so that the Grandmaster and Death could choose champions from among them. Defensor was chosen for the Grandmaster's team, fighting alongside fellow heroes Captain America, the aborigine Talisman III, Darkstar, Captain Britain, Wolverine, Sasquatch, Daredevil, Peregrine, She-Hulk, Thing, and Blitzkrieg. When the Grandmaster's team won the contest, the heroes were returned to Earth.[1]

The Everyman, posing as Zeitgeist, later assassinated a number of South American superheroes, including Defensor.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Contest of Champions #1-3
  2. ↑ Captain America #422


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