The Defenders #152

The double-sized final chapter of The New Defenders arrives with a cover that makes the stakes unmistakable — a massive, lion-headed creature dominates the composition as the team scrambles around it, with a winged hero in the upper right, a blue-skinned figure leaping mid-battle, and an armored warrior bracing among the rubble in the foreground. Frank Cirocco's cover pencils and inks lend the scene a kinetic, almost painterly energy that feels fitting for a series going out swinging. With Secret Wars II threading through its pages, this February 1986 send-off — subtitled "The End of All Songs" — promises that Peter B. Gillis and Don Perlin aren't letting the Defenders fade quietly into the night.