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 in the Marvel Universe.

Publication history

Defensor first appeared in Marvel Super-Heroes: 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 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 Fourteenth 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.^{[volume & issue needed]}

The Everyman, posing as Zeitgeist, later assassinated a number of South American superheroes, including Defensor.^{[volume & issue needed]}

References

External links

• Defensor at the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe
• http://www.marveldatabase.com/Defensor