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7 5 9 6 0 6 2 0 0 0 8 5 BONUS DIGITAL EDITION – DETAILS INSIDE! 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 4 COLD CURRENTS

OLDER THAN MEMORY AND IMPRISONED AT THE EDGE OF THE GALAXY FOR MILLENNIA, KNULL, THE GOD-KING OF THE SYMBIOTES, HAS BEEN FREED AND HAS 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 DOES NOT ONLY HAPPEN TODAY. IT 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. NAMOR AND HIS ALLIES PURSUED THE WARRIORS AS THEY RAMPAGED ACROSS THE OCEAN. BUT THEY WERE TOO LATE TO SAVE ATTUMA’S HOME AND FAMILY FROM FALLING PREY TO THE BLACK TIDE’S WRATH.

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