Announced by artist Ken Wheaton on his social feeds, we see a Defenders of the Earth exclusive variant comic book.

The comic book will contain cover art by Ken Wheaton, an exclusive variant cover for Mad Cave Studios Defenders of the Earth comic book edition number 1. This edition will be available for purchase direct from Ken at TERRIFICON in Connecticut, New England, USA (due to be held from the 16th-18th of August) and from HARRISON’S COMICS in Salem, Massachusetts, USA.

The exclusive variant cover which depicts the Phantom, Flash Gordon, Mandrake the Magician, Lothar and Ming the Merciless is a homage to Star Wars #1 from 1977 by Howard Chaykin and Thomas Palmer.

The Defenders of the Earth #1 exclusive variant (seen below left) and Star Wars #1 (seen below right) can both be seen below.

The information provided by Ken Wheaton on his posts for the Defenders of the Earth exclusive variant comic book is:

Announcing my next variant comic book cover for August, Defenders of the Earth #1. My loving homage to Howard Chaykin & Tom Palmer’s iconic Star Wars #1, a big deal to me when I was a kid… and still is. It’ll be available from me at Terrificon (what an amazing show) and from Harrison’s Comics in Salem, Massachusetts (what an amazing store!).

This exclusive variant is the 4th variant cover for Mad Cave Studios Defenders of the Earth comic book edition number 1. The other 3 covers can be seen below. Cover 1A (seen below left) is illustrated by Jim Calafiore, cover 1B (seen below center) is illustrated by Djordje Djokovic and cover 1C (seen below right) is illustrated by Andy Clarke.

To view this Defenders of the Earth exclusive variant comic book cover, plus other work completed by Ken Wheaton, his Instagram account can be found HERE

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