Featuring: Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner
Release: October 5, 1965
Cover: January 1866
12 cents
Story by: Smilin’ Stan Lee
Pencilling by: Admirable Adam Austin
Delineation by : Valorous Vince Colletta
Lettering by: Sagacious Sam Rosen
12 pages
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Though I hold life most dear to me, I shall show how a Prince faces death!
It turns out abandoning the quest was the way to complete the quest.
Per Neptune: Every attribute of a Prince is yours… courage, strength, honest… and, most important of all… a heart which can love… a soul which can sacrifice!
Thus Namor earns the Trident, which will become an iconic accessory.
He’s ready now for the final battle with Krang.
As noted, we’ll be skipping the Hulk story for now and jumping straight to the Namor story in the next issue to see how this all ends. We’ll realign eventually.
Rating: ★★★☆☆, 53/100
Significance: ★★★☆☆
I read this story in Marvel Masterworks: The Sub-Mariner vol. 1.
Characters:
- Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner
- Lady Dorma
- Neptune
- Ancient of Atlantis
- Krang
Story notes:
- Neptune banishes the Faceless Ones and gives Namor his Trident.
- Only Revitalizer Ray can save Dorma.
- Ancient of Atlantis begs Namor to save his people from Krang’s oppression.
- Krang’s guard fires Letho-ray blasts.
- Namor finds his subjects unconscious from the robo-tank’s sense-stun ray.
- Namor uses Trident to stop Krang.
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