—Sub-Mariner (Namor McKenzie)Namor was I born. "Avenging son." Spawn of two worlds... Yet fated to belong fully to none.
Appearing in "A Legend A-Borning"
Featured Characters:
- Sub-Mariner (Namor McKenzie) (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- Empire of Atlantis (Main story and flashback)
- Thakorr (Only in flashback)
- Princess Fen (Only in flashback)
- Leonard McKenzie (Only in flashback)
Antagonists:
- Skarka Barbarians (Only in flashback)
- Numerous unnamed barbarians (Only in flashback)
Other Characters:
- NYPD
- Empire of Atlantis (Main story and flashback)
- King Kamuu (Only in flashback)
- Princess Zartra (Only in flashback)
- King Immanu (Corpse, skeleton or other remains) (Only in flashback)
- Ikthon (Only in flashback)
- Atlantean Army
- Krang (Only in flashback)
- Three unnamed soldiers
- Kormok (Only in flashback)
- Numerous unnamed Atlanteans
- Neptune (Statue)
- Oracle (Only in flashback)
- Paul Destine (Only in flashback)
- Mr. Blake (Only in flashback)
- Numerous unnamed crewmembers (Only in flashback)
- Ernest Shackleton (Mentioned)
- Robert Falcon Scott (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Mutant Atlantean-Human Hybrids (Main story and flashback)
- Atlanteans (Main story and flashback)
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Fish (Main story and flashback)
- Celestials (Mentioned in narration)
- Deviants (Mentioned in narration)
- Lemurians (Only in flashback)
- Turtles (Only in flashback)
- Sea Horses (Only in flashback)
- Squids (Only in flashback)
- Octopuses (Only in flashback)
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- North America
- United States of America
- New York
- California (Mentioned)
- United States of America
- Atlantic Ocean
- Atlantis
- Atlantis (Kamuu) (Only in flashback)
- Western Ocean (Only in flashback)
- Atlantis (Pre-Cataclysmic Age) (Only in flashback)
- Pacific Ocean (Only in flashback)
- Lemuria (Only in flashback)
- Skarka (Mentioned in narration)
- Southern Ocean (Only in flashback)
- Atlantis (Tha-Korr) (Only in flashback)
- Atlantean Ice Castle (Only in flashback)
- Atlantis (Tha-Korr) (Only in flashback)
- Antarctica (Only in flashback)
- North America
Items:
- Tablet of Law and Peace (Statue) (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Serpent Crown (Behind the scenes) (Only in flashback)
Vehicles:
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
Continuity Notes[]
- The story of Namor's origin was previously told in Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1, Marvel Comics #1, Young Men #24, Sub-Mariner #33, Sub-Mariner (Vol. 2) #1 and Sub-Mariner (Vol. 2) #38.
- This entire limited series is a retelling of the life story of Prince Namor, written by him in his own words sometime after his second wife, Marrina, apparently died in Avengers #293. After completing the chronicle, Namor left it beside her underwater grave in Saga of the Sub-Mariner #12.
- Some of the ancient history of undersea Atlantis that appears in the first few pages of this issue is not entirely accurate, presumably because it is based on legends known to Namor instead of his memories of events from his life.