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RATED T+ $3.99 US 1 1 5 0 0 5 – DETAILS – INSIDE! 8 0 0 0 2 6 0 6 DIGITAL EDITION DIGITAL 9 5 7 BONUS BONUS NAMOR THE SUB-MARINER--SON OF AN ATLANTEAN PRINCESS FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE OCEAN AND A HUMAN SAILOR. BORN A MUTANT, WITH THE POWERS OF FLIGHT, INCREDIBLE STRENGTH AND DURABILITY. NOW THE RULER OF THE UNDERWATER EMPIRE OF ATLANTIS, HE HAS BEEN BOTH FRIEND AND FOE TO HUMANITY.

CHAPTER 5 THE BREAKING WAVE

OLDER THAN MEMORY AND IMPRISONED AT THE EDGE OF THE GALAXY FOR MILLENNIA, KNULL, THE GOD-KING OF THE SYMBIOTES, HAS BEEN FREED AND LED A HORDE OF MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DRAGONS ACROSS THE COSMOS, WITH A TRAIL OF DEATH AND DESTRUCTION IN THEIR WAKE. THE KING IN BLACK HAS ARRIVED ON EARTH.

BUT THE FIGHT TO STOP KNULL REACHES FAR INTO THE PAST, WHEN A YOUNG NAMOR ADMIRED THE GROUP OF ATLANTEAN WARRIORS KNOWN AS THE SWIFT TIDE. NAMOR, DORMA AND ATTUMA SET OUT ALONGSIDE THE SWIFT TIDE ON A MISSION TO RETRIEVE THE UNFORGOTTEN STONE, A POWERFUL MAGICAL RELIC. WHEN THE STONE RELEASED A BLAST OF DARK ELDRITCH ENERGY, THE SWIFT TIDE WAS CORRUPTED, TRANSFORMING INTO THE VICIOUS, MURDEROUS BLACK TIDE. NAMOR AND HIS ALLIES PURSUED THE WARRIORS AS THEY RAMPAGED ACROSS THE OCEAN. WITH THE BLACK TIDE NOW AT THE GATES OF ATLANTIS ITSELF, DORMA’S PET FISH, AMBROSE, REAPPEARED IN MONSTROUS, MUTATED FORM BUT WITH AN UNEXPECTED GIFT FOR NAMOR AND HIS ALLIES: THE UNFORGOTTEN STONE!

KURT BUSIEK WRITER // BENJAMIN DEWEY ARTIST JONAS SCHARF PRESENT DAY SEQUENCE ARTIST

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