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PERADOR, QUE NUNCA HA CAUSADO NECESITAMOS/ /ORDENAD-
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JOVEN PRÍNCIPE SUBMARINO GUÍA A SU PUEBLO
DESDE SU DEVASTADA CIUDAD A SU NUEVO HOGAR..
¡LOS COSTADOS DE TODAS LAS * BALLENAS * SE ABREN
DE GOLPE, y PESADOS CAÑONES APUNTAN A LOS
RODEADOS E INDEFENSOS SUBMARINOS!
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A SU FLOTA QUE
Mientras la flota de asombrosas naves-ballena
DEL PRINCIPE SUBMARINO OBEDECE SUS ÓRDENES Y
SE DISPERSE... SE DESBANDA, UNA PEQUEÑA LANCHA ABANDONA LA
NAVE INSIGNIA. .. Y SÓLO NAMOR QUEDA A BORDO
DE SU PROPIA NAVE... PARA LUCHAR SIN AYUDA.
ATENCIÓN A
TODAS LAS NA-
VES... /NAMOR VA
A ENFRENTARSE
AL ENEMIGO
SOLO/
 §mAÑAS FIGURAS CAEN DE LA
OCULTA BAJO EL VIENTRE DEL
ESCOTILLA
SUBMARINO,NOMBRES FUERTEMENTE
ARMADOS QUE COMIENZAN LA CAZA.
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EL COMANDANTE VE LO QUE NA
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SUCEDIDO...

/DONNERWETTER' /ES IMPOSIBLE.' /HA

ACABADO CON CUATRO DE ELLOS.' /NO
IMPORTA COSERLO VIVO' /A LOS
CAÑONES CONMOCIONADORES.'
/ACABAREMOS CON ÉSE NAMOR.'
 Temiendo que namor pueda intentar
ESCAPAR DEL TANQUE, EL CAPITÁN TOMA
MEDIDAS ESPECIALES...

fVESANDO
SE ABRE PASO A PUÑETAZOS ATRA-
EL CASCO DE ACERO...
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A SUFRIR OTRO ATAQUE RELÁMPAGO LUCHAR
JAMÁS... /ES MUCHO MEJOR ESTAR CONTRA UN ATAQUE RELÁMPAGO
PREPARADO PARA LUCHAR POR TUS
DERECHOS, PORQUE SIEMPRE BAJO EL MAR...
HABRÁ DICTADORES E INDE-
SEABLES QUE QUIERAN PELEAR
ESCLAVIZARTE.../ CONTRA TROPAS DE ASALTO DE
HOMBRES RANA...
DERROTAR
A UNA GRAN FLOTA DE
SUBMARINOS...

A
y COMBATIR
CONTRA UN SUBMARINO
éL SOLO...

¿QUÉ MÁS
COSAS HARÁ
NAMOR?
OH, NUEVO EMPERADOR NUESTRO, AHORA
i DEPENDE DE VOS... /SOIS EL ÚNI-
CO QUE PUEDE SALVARNOS/ SI
NO CONSEGUIMOS EL REME-
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¡¡SOCORRO!!/

EL Á6IL CUERPO DE NAMOR CORTA HMM. /PARECE UN EMBARCADERO/

EL AGUA COMO UN CUCHILLO... /PERO LA APERTURA ES DEMA-
SIADO PEQUEÑA PARA Mí/ '
/LA CORRIENTE SE HACE MÁS FUERTE/
/ESO SIGNIFICA QUE ME ACERCO
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PEQUEÑA APERTURA'
PERO ¿PARA QUÉ ES
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AL PUNTO DE ORIGEN/
LA OTRA?

NAMOR COGE AL CHICO Y REGRESA AHÍ... /PUEDES

HASTA LA APERTURA... PASAR/ /ARRÁSTRATE
HASTA EL FINAL DEL
/UN PEQUEÑO TRABA- 7 PASADIZO y MIRA QUÉ
QUE TENGO QUE JO DE INVESTIGACIÓN, J- HAy AL OTRO LADO/
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¡CONTENEDORES DE PLOMO! AMIGO!

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UN MIEDO INSTANTÁNEO EMPUJA AL CONDUCTOR A SEGUIR LAS
/ESTÁ CLARO/ CONDUCTOR, PASE ,
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POR EL MUELLE MÁS CERCANO, > NINSON I TODA VELOCIDAD POR UNA CALLE LATERAL HACIA EL NORTH RIVER!
RÁPIDO, ¡O LE DESTROZARÉ CON í IDIOTA!
MIS PROPIAS MANOS! ¡CÁSPfTAI /NO VOZ A
DISCUTIR CON
NAMOR!

F/ESTÁ ACTUANDO
CON INTELIGENCIA,
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LANCHA SE PONE EN MARCHA CON UN RUGIDO!

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PUEDEN LIBRAR-
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¡ALLÁ VA!
/COMO UN
COHETE!
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DESCIENDE PARA AYUDAR A LA ATERRORIZADA TRIPULACIÓN! fRECOGE A LOS INCONSCIENTES E INDEFENSOS
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y LOS LLEVA NADANDO HASTA LA ORILLA!
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BATALLA CAMPAL!

¡naMoR,
 RINCE NAMOR theSub- he was seeking something greater "TTOLY Catfish!" Namor re-

P Mariner, swam silently

through the clear, green
waters oí the Antartic, happy lo
to accomplish!
“I don't know what
deed will be," Namor mused as
this great
membered a story his
mother once told him
about a giant whale that killed
be alive. He had just passed bis he cut through the water, "but I twenty Sub-Mariner hunters be-
fifteenth birthday —
though he will know it when I chance upon fore he had been subdued. "If
didn't celébrate it wíth a party as it! When I have done this thing, I've been looking for trouble —
I shall be able to accept my place here comes!"
we would Instead, he celebrated it

by swimming from the under- in life in proportion to my
water kingdom of the Sub-Mar- —but not untill"
iner people to the outside waters, Suddenly Prince Namor
ln search of adv enture. ceased swimming, and in-
his
stinctively dove for the protec-
Sub-Mariner, though still a
tion afforded by a group of un-
boy. was possessed o( great
strength and ability Many times dersea rocks. Ahead of him
he had raced large fish.andstolen loomed the dim outline of a giant
rides on the backs of giant turtles
"killer whale"!
...but now, being all of fifteen,
years Namor deliberated. Shoutd he
follow his mother’s adviee about
staying away from killer whales
— or should he show his ap-
proaching manhood by swim-
ming up to meet the giant single-
handed?
He slowly unhooked the long
length of tough rope he had been
carrying, and suddenly darted

Ariner
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toward the huge animal.
‘Til do it!" he cried. filled with
the excitement that, lay ahead.
He swam straight up and under
the whale, who was staying
strangely cióse to the surface.
set his trap — simply a large coil
of rope with two small bladders,
or balloons, on the sides of the
loop. These balloons he filled
with air from his lungs (he was
equipped with the strange Sub-
Mariner underwater lungs af-
forded by nature), and let them
carry the loop to the surface.
He maneuvered it
directly in front of the whale's
head —and
then jerked it back
while he swam quickly for the
surface!
The rope’s end stayed loose
in his hands for a brief moment
but suddenly it jerked so hard he
thought his arms were going with
it! He felt himself being pulled
through the water so fast that it
hurt his tough skin!
Namor raised his
kill?" the Sub-Mariner won- such a thing before. Men, we
dered. "Thisis not like the whale
have made an important dis-
covery!"
my mother spoke of! This one
was almost thankful! Yes, that is They started to row back to
it he must have known that I
. . .
the ship with the bound Sub-
He Mariner.
have helped him!"
Namor, filled with wonder,
Far below the surface the kill-
er whale still churned the sea.
swam to the surface of the Ant-
It feltthe loss of the harpoon
arctic Ocean. "Now I must find and its sharp eyes followed the
the hunter who did this thing!" swimming Sub-Mariner.
Namor broke the surface near Something made the whale
e dark. floating mass. He had realiza that he had made a
never seen a boat before, and
friend. He waited for the Sub-
carne up too cióse.
Mariner to come back into the
On board the small dory the water to get a better look at his
until it was
five men, sent from the large
new friend. But Namor didn’t
whaler boat some distance away,
were amazed at the sight of the
return. He was in the boat!
The whale shot to the surface
strange face popping out of the
water hundreds of miles from
— fearful that his new had
friend
met with pain at the hands of
land.
the strange men, as he had!
The boat was equipped with a
His great hulk hit the bottom
large harpoon gun in the bow,
of the boat. cracking it in two—
and the men were armed with
and spilling the occupants into
rifles. They had harpooned the
the sea! His keen eyes waited
killer whale. but it had escaped.
for the form that was the Sub-
The men studied the Sub-Mar- Mariner’s. .instead he saw six
face and .

peered ahead through the swirl-

iner in the water .
studied them!
and he . .

bodies — all similar!

ing water. What he saw surprised Thinking that they were all
“What are these people who new friend, the whale
him. There was another rope on like his
sit in bowls on top of the water?"
the whale! turned, and gratefully swam
Namor pondered as he swam to-
“What is He
wondered.
it?” away.
ward them. heedless of fear. He The whalers, floundering in
“Is'it possible that others have
reached the side of the boat and
the icy water, shouted at the tops
ridden this whale before me?"
He crept forward on his rope
started to pulí himself up but — of their lungs. Aboard the large
the man at the harpoon gun,
and soon was standing, as on an whaler boat the Iookout heard
frightened. smashed the side of
underwater aquaplane, on the them and another boat was sent
a harpoon down on him!
back of the whale cióse to the to their rescue.
Namor, not expecting the Meanwhile. Sub-Mariner sink-
Other rope. He examined it and blow, felt the full forcé of it
found that it was attached to ing to the depths with his bound
and dropped back into the water
some sort of spear, imbedded in arms and legs, regained con-
unconscious!
the skin of the mammal.
. . .
sciousness. He quickly broke his
“This is strange —
I have never
"T^tíLL him in! — whatever bonds and rubbed
head.
his aching
seen such a spear before!" He
he is! We should get a “What has happened?" he
grasped the spear (it was a large
good price from a museum asked himself. “It all seems like
harpoon) and gave it a strong
for his body!" They hauled the a dream. First I meet with a
pulí. It carne out. sending him
unconscious Namor aboard, and killer whale that does not kill
spinning backwards off the
proceeded to tie him up. “We and then I see men that are
whale's back!
The killer whale dove deeply,
will take him back but if he — afraid of water, and sit in a hol-
tries to fight. .shoot him!" .
low shell!
leaving Namor high .and wet!
“Oh! oh! He'll turn and come
. .

"But what about the whale?" "It is a strange world —with

one of the crew asked. men who kill and whales who
straight atme now!" Namor tried
to figure a way of ñghting the
“This is more valuable to us
than five whales!" the leader said.
don't, but then — as my mother

great underwater beast. 'Tm has often cautioned me, I am

“This man is obviously some- young. .and can't expect to un-
afraid this will be his round!" He
—
.

thing like a mermaid only it’s derstand everything in one life-

tensed himself and waited. .

a male! I have never heard of

“Why doesn't he return for the time!” THE END
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