Issue(s): Defenders #93
Published Date: Mar 81
Title: "The woman behind the man!"
Credits:
J.M. DeMatteis - Writer
Don Perlin - Penciler
Joe Sinnott & Many Hands - Inker

Review/plot:
Lady Dorma appears, somehow miraculously resurrected. She convinces Namor to launch a war on the surface people. The Defenders get involved and it turns out that Dorma is really Nebulon. He'd been imprisoned by his people but he escaped looking for vengeance on the Defenders. Once exposed, he's relatively easily to defeat, and his people show up looking for him to imprison him again.

Competently told but ultimately forgettable.

Quality Rating: C

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: Hulk is still with the team at the end of this issue, but he won't be seen again in the Defenders until issue #98. There's no explanation of why he's left. But Hulk #255 shows him sitting outside the city of New York, so it's likely he's wandered off during a downtime moment. At the end of Hulk #255 the Hulk gets on a boat, starting off his "world tour". This also takes place before Llyra's re-appearance in Amazing Spider-Man #213-215, because Namor still thinks Llyra is dead.

References:

• Lady Dorma was killed in Sub-Mariner #37
  
• A footnote says the Namor will learn that Llyra is still alive in Amazing Spider-Man #214. Perhaps it is Dorma's resurrection here that has him send out the scouts that alert him to Llyra's presence in that issue.
  
• The Atlantean people aren't sure if they want to go war so soon after the misunderstanding with the surface people in Amazing Spider-Man #211
  
• Nighthawk's injuries relate to the fact that in Defenders #14, he had died, but the Defenders donated a portion of their life energy to revive him. Something has now severed the bond between them. Nebulon was also first defeated in that issue.
  
• Nebulon also appeared subsequently in a plot extending from Defenders #34 to Defenders annual #1

Cross-over: N/A

Continuity Implant? N

Reprinted In: N/A