Story #2Somewhere Stands…Skull Island!
Writer:
Raymond Marais.Penciler:
Bill Everett. Inker:
Vince Colletta. Colorist:
Unknown. Letterer:
Art Simek.
Synopsis
Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner, sits on his throne in Atlantis and considers declaring war on the surface world. Lady Dorma pleads with him and he again rebukes her. Lord Vashti then suggests they attack and defeat the Plunderer and see how things go after that. Namor agrees to that….
Namor swims to Antarctica where he is attacked by polar serpents and defeats them. He checks out the ruins of the original Atlantis and visits his mother’s grave before entering the underwater cavern that leads to the Savage Land. He locates Skull Island, lair of the Plunderer, which the baddie had mentioned last issue. But Namor is attacked by a giant sea monster and the scuffle brings him to the attention of the Plunderer. Namor fights the monster and tricks it into plunging its head into the ocean bottom and becoming stuck. Meanwhile, Dorma has followed Namor so that when the villain fires his electron blaster at Namor, Dorma is also hit. Namor surprises Plunderer by leaping unharmed out of the water and the two adversaries grapple on the beach. When Plunderer reveals that Dorma is injured, Namor punches his lights out then sees to his lady love. Finding her (relatively) unharmed, he orders her to go home. Returning to the island, Plunderer blasts him with the new and improved Vibra-Ray, knocking him out….
Back in Atlantis, Dorma and Vashti watch Namor via the Tracio-Scope and are surprised to find him apparently free and talking to the Plunderer; Dorma wonders if that means the two are teaming up against the surface world? What she can’t see is Namor held prisoner by the villain’s energy bands….