Appearing in "A Legend A-Borning"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Leonard McKenzie (Only in flashback)
- Princess Fen (Only in flashback)
- Thakorr (Only in flashback)
Antagonists:
- Krang (Only in flashback)
- Paul Destine (Only in flashback)
Other Characters:
- Celestials (Referenced)
- Deviant of Lemuria (Referenced)
- Neptune, God of Oceans (Referenced)
- King Kamuu the First (Only in flashback)
- Kamuu, Ancient Atlantis King (Behind the scenes) (Referenced)
- King Immanu (Only in flashback) (Death)
- Ikthon (Only in flashback)
Races and Species:
- Mutant Atlantean-Human Hybrids
- Humans
- Homo mermanus: Atlanteans and Lemurians / "Ancients"[1]
- Celestials (Referenced)
- Deviant of Lemuria (Referenced)
Locations:
- Ancient Atlantis (Only in flashback)
- The Atlantean Nation (Only in flashback)
- The first Atlantis (Only in flashback)
- Lemuria (Deviant) (Referenced)
- Tha-Korr (Only in flashback)
- Lemuria (Atlantean) (Referenced)
- Skarka (Referenced)
- Antarctica (Only in flashback)
Items:
- Tablet of Law and Peace (Only in flashback)
Vehicles:
- Oracle (Only in flashback)
- Serpent Crown (Only in flashback)
Events:
- Lemurian Cataclysm (Only in flashback)
Synopsis for "A Legend A-Borning"
The beginning of a series recapping the history of Namor, the Sub-Mariner. This issue covers the ancient origin of undersea Atlantis, the rise of Homo Mermanus, Kamuu's empire, Lemuria and the Serpent Crown, and the relocation to Antarctica, all leading up to 1920 and the meeting of Princess Fen and Leonard McKenzie that results in the birth of Prince Namor.
Notes
- The story of Namor's origin was previously told in Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1, Marvel Comics #1, Young Men #24, Sub-Mariner Comics #33, Sub-Mariner #1 and Sub-Mariner #38.
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- Comics
- 1988
- 1988, November
- Copper-Age
- Saga of the Sub-Mariner Vol 1
- Tom DeFalco/Editor-in-Chief
- Rich Buckler/Cover Artist
- Roy Thomas/Writer
- Dann Thomas/Writer
- Rich Buckler/Penciler
- Bob McLeod/Inker
- Michael Higgins/Colourist
- Joe Rosen/Letterer
- Terry Kavanagh/Editor
- Mike Rockwitz/Editor
- Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Leonard McKenzie (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Fen (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Thakorr (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Krang (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Paul Destine (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Celestials (Race)/Mentions
- Deviants (Homo descendus)/Mentions
- Poseidon Aegaeus (Earth-616)/Mentions
- Kamuu (Atlantean) (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Kamuu (Ancient Atlantis) (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
- Immanu (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Ikthon (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Homo superior/Appearances
- Atlantean-Human Hybrids/Appearances
- Homo sapiens/Appearances
- Homo mermanus/Appearances
- Lemurians (Homo mermanus)/Appearances
- Atlantis (Modern)/Appearances
- Atlantis (Kingdom)/Appearances
- Atlantis (Kamuu)/Appearances
- Lemuria (Deviant)/Mentions
- Atlantis (Tha-Korr)/Appearances
- Lemuria (Pacific Ocean)/Mentions
- Skarka (Settlement)/Mentions
- Antarctica/Appearances
- Tablet of Law and Peace/Appearances
- Oracle (Ship)/Appearances
- Serpent Crown/Appearances
- Great Cataclysm
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