Released by King Features Syndicate as part of their diverse array of syndicated comic book characters for 2025, the Defenders of the Earth are found as a formidable team-up.

The Sell Sheet is available on the King Features Syndicate’s website, where it promotes Defenders of the Earth as an independent licensing option. Traditionally, the Phantom, Mandrake the Magician, Flash Gordon, and their corresponding support characters are categorized as distinct licensing entities.

King Features Syndicate is providing the opportunity to syndicate the characters from Defenders of the Earth under a single agreement. This concept presents a remarkable opportunity for those interested in developing products, such as merchandise, comics, animation, and more, to feature all characters collectively, thereby eliminating the necessity of securing individual licenses and production agreements.

The Defenders of the Earth brief provided by King Features reads:

Tyrant, Ming the Merciless, and his vast army of evil accomplices are working overtime to eliminate the human race. But The Defenders of the Earth, led by a team of legendary crime-fighters The Phantom, Flash Gordon, Mandrake the Magician and his trusted confidant and bodyguard Lothar, join forces with their uniquely talented, teenage children to challenge Ming and his evil followers in a series of great adventures.

The Defenders of the Earth Sell Sheet is displayed above, with King Features Syndicate providing not only a succinct description of the various characters involved in the team-up but also information regarding the accessibility of these characters. This includes the availability of the cartoon series on YouTube, the NECA figure toy range, and a comic book series published by Mad Cave Studios.

The singular syndication offering of the diverse characters encompassed by the Defenders of the Earth franchise represents a commendable initiative by King Features Syndicate. This development clearly suggests that they perceive a viable trajectory for the team-up to gain prominence in the future as a collective entity.

This initiative also enhances the potential for creative merchandising and production companies to utilize this partnership as a collaborative effort, thereby establishing a remarkable opportunity to present the principal characters of the group, including the Phantom, to potentially new audiences.

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