Featuring: Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner
Release: February 14, 1967
Cover: May 1967
12 cents
A shocking submersible saga by: Smilin’ Stan Lee and Wild Bill Everett
Inked by Dandy Danny Adkins
Lettered by Swingin’ Sammy Rosen
12 pages
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But ’tis no longer any concern of Namor’s! My subjects have forsaken me! Thus, they are deserving of their fate!
Dan Adkins is a mostly new name to us, though we’d seen his work when we checked out the THUNDER Agents. He was new to comics then, and has been Wally Wood’s assistant and artistic partner since. In addition to Tower, the pair has been doing work for Warren, Gold Key, and Harvey. Here’s a sampling of Adkins’ work after just over a year in the industry, all art drawn with Wally Wood in some combination.
- THUNDER Agents #3, Tower, 1966
- Creepy #9, Warren, 1966
- The Munsters #8, Gold Key, 1966
Having defeated Namor in combat, Byrrah is crowned Prince Byrrah, Lord of Atlantis. Krang and Attuma join Byrrah by his side.
Imagine electing a leader who sides with your nation’s enemies so blatantly.
Dorma and Vashti defy Byrrah. It turns out the Atlantean people turned against him because of a hypno-ray. Dorma reverses it to free them from Byrrah’s spell.
So the Atlanteans were hypnotized into supporting an authoritarian madman. What’s our excuse?
Namor had been sentenced to Inferno Isle where he has to fight a fire creature.
Krang yells, “Imperius Rex!” But that’s Namor’s phrase. Stealing Namor’s kingdom is one thing, but stealing his catchphrase is a bridge too far.
Rating: ★★★☆☆, 53/100
Significance: ★★★☆☆
I read this story in Marvel Masterworks: The Sub-Mariner vol. 2.
Characters:
- Namor
- Lord Byrrah/Prince Byrrah
- Lady Dorma
- Lord Vashti
- Krang
- Attuma
- Flaming creature from Inferno Isle
Story notes:
- Byrrah defeated Namor in battle by trickery, and now calls for the people to elect him leader.
- Namor captured by ionic force field, a weapon from his own arsenal.
- Byrrah has claimed the throne, with Krang and Attuma by his side.
- Byrrah sentences Namor to Inferno Isle. Inferno Isle lies at the surface of the sea, hidden by a curtain of mist.
- Namor fired in rocket to Inferno Isle.
- On Inferno Isle, a fire creature emerges from the volano.
- Dorma and Vashti defy the curfew to learn Namor’s fate.
- Dorma uses Byrrah’s Projector Ray against guards.
- Byrrah has ordered death to those who defy the curfew.
- Byrrah used the Projector Ray as a hypno-beam to sap the will of the realm and turn people to his side. When Dorma uses it on the guards, they become loyal to her.
- Dorma reverses the beam and frees the people from the spell, and they rise against Byrrah.
- Byrrah orders the Generals to place their legions under the command of Krang and Attuma. They are about to obey when Dorma’s ray awakens them.
- Water is the fire creature’s weakness.
- Namor coats his hands in mud to hit the flaming body.
- Attuma had a weapon ready as a contingency.
- Namor destroys Attuma’s vortex machine.
- Vashti and Dorma were unaffected by the hypno-beam because of their love for Namor.
- Namor leaves Byrrah to his fate, despised by all.
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