Story #2…To Destroy the Realm Eternal!
Writer:
Roy Thomas.Penciler:
Werner Roth. Inker:
Dan Adkins. Colorist:
Unknown. Letterer:
Art Simek.
Synopsis
Taking his leave of the Swamp Men, Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner, dives into he sea to head back to Atlantis….
Meanwhile, the Plunderer has decided to destroy Atlantis as his first step toward terrorizing the world. But first he must find the new Atlantis, which he surmises is near Dr. Walter Newell’s now-destroyed underwater city….
And the people of Atlantis fortify their city to stave off an attack from their renegade (as they have been told) Prince Namor and his ally the Plunderer. Yet Lady Dorma shares her concerns with Lord Vashti that they may have been too hasty in reporting Namor a traitor….
In the ruins of the old Atlantis, Namor visits his mother’s grave and vows to destroy the Plunderer then the entire surface world. He is attacked by an Orca but he gives it a beating and forces it to carry him to new Atlantis….
As the Plunderer approaches Atlantis, their military issues a warning. The bad guy instead fires on the city with his giant Vibra-Ray, melting the buildings in the city square. The Atlanteans fire back at the Plunderer’s sub but accidentally hit a US Navy sub on secret maneuvers. The Americana assume they are under attack by Atlantis and return fire with some experimental depth charges. One such hits the Plunderer’s ship just as Namor arrives, leading him to think the US Navy is coming to the aid of Atlantis….
As it turns out, Plunderer’s ship has a force field that could only protect the top or the bottom due to energy demands. So the USN’s depth charge seriously damages the baddie’s sub while surprising him. The Plunderer jumps into his pocket escape sub and takes off for safety, abandoning his men. But he encounters Namor; the villain panics again when fired upon by Atlantis and flees, leaving Namor in the rubble of the city streets. Namor rescues a boy who is hiding and the boy explains the details of Namor’s being branded a traitor, confusing the monarch. He gets the boy to safety but the rain of Navy depth charges knocks him unconscious while the Atlantean navy is dispatched to destroy Namor, the submarines, and the surface world….