He has dragged us back in time--against our will--to the multiverse before our own! The Sixth Cosmos--birthplace of the devourer Galactus-- 
Appearing in "Eighth Cosmos: The Magician"
Featured Characters:
- Defenders (Reformed)
- Doctor Strange (Dr. Stephen Strange) (Joins)
- Masked Raider (Joins)
- Silver Surfer (Norrin Radd) (Joins)
- Red Harpy (Betty Ross-Banner) (Joins)
- Cloud (Joins)
Supporting Characters:
- Taaia (First appearance) (Unnamed)
Antagonists:
- Scientists Guild (Earth-616) / Enclave (Main story and flashback) (As Scientists Guild (Earth-616) and Scientists Guild (Earth-616) in recap only)
- Dr. Carlo Zota (Only in flashback)
- Omnimax (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Onyx King (Invoked)
- Eternity (Only in recap)
- Scientists Guild (Earth-616) / Enclave (Main story and flashback) (As Scientists Guild (Earth-616) and Scientists Guild (Earth-616) in recap only)
- Black Knight (Only in recap)
- Dr. Maris Morlak (Only in recap)
- Blind Justice (Dr. Jerome Hamilton) (Leaves team in recap only)
- Masked Raider (Jim Gardley) (Only in recap)
- Thunderer (Jerry Carstairs) (Only in recap)
- Him (Only in recap)
- Project Adam-IV (Michael Korvac) (Only in flashback)
- Sise-Neg (Drawing) (Only in flashback)
- Secret Defenders (Referenced)
- Defenders-11127 (Referenced)
- Vishanti (Referenced)
- Galactus (Galan of Taa) (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Zenn-Lavians
- Genius Loci
- Taa-ans
Locations:
- Multiverse (As the Eighth Cosmos and the Sixth Cosmos)
- Prime Marvel Universe / Earth-616 (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America
- New York
- Kennebunkport, Maine (Mentioned)
- Camelot, Britain (Only in recap)
- Beehive, Atlantic Ocean (Only in recap)
- The Enclave's laboratory (Only in flashback)
- United States of America
- Taa
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- 31st Century (Mentioned)
- Earth-11127 (Referenced)
- Prime Marvel Universe / Earth-616 (Main story and flashback)
- Onyx Throne (Invoked)
Items:
- Tarot of the Secret Flame (Name revealed)
- Eternity Mask (Main story and flashback)
- Bolts of Balthakk
- Cloak of Levitation
- Eye of Agamotto
- Power Cosmic
- Cosmic Cube (Referenced)
Vehicles:
Events:
- American Revolutionary War (Referenced)
Synopsis for "Eighth Cosmos: The Magician"
The Masked Raider suddenly appears at Doctor Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum warning that Carlo Zota is trying to alter history using the magic-based time travel of Sise-Neg. Strange uses his Tarot of the Secret Flame cards to find appropriate allies for them. After Strange's old friend Silver Surfer and Red Harpy arrive, the cards summon Cloud but in gaseous nebula form. To prevent a new star from destroying Earth, Strange uses eternity magic at a high cost; everyone is taken to Taa, the home planet of Galactus in the Sixth Cosmos.
Solicit Synopsis
SUPERSTARS AL EWING & JAVIER RODRÍGUEZ REUNITE FOR A COSMOS-COLLIDING JOURNEY!
When existence itself faces extraordinary threats, it needs an extraordinary defense! That’s when you call...THE DEFENDERS!
DOCTOR STRANGE and the MASKED RAIDER take a non-team of Marvel’s weirdest, wildest heroes on a mission that will uncover the hidden architecture of reality itself! This cosmos was not the first to exist...but if the DEFENDERS can’t track Marvel’s oldest villain through the deepest trenches of time — it might be the last!Notes
- Korvac's rebellion against Zota had previously been shown in the flashback at the start of Iron Man (Vol. 6) #2.
