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Llyra

Llyra

26 appearances · Bronze Age · 1971–2024 · 2 key issues
Who is Llyra?

Llyra is a ruthless Lemurian villain and longtime adversary of Namor the Sub-Mariner, using cunning and shapeshifting abilities to scheme against Atlantis and its allies from the depths of Marvel's undersea world.

Born from the depths of the Bronze Age, Llyra made her sinister splash in Sub-Mariner #36 in 1971, and Marvel's underwater corners have never quite been the same. She's a villain with real staying power — 53 years in the catalog, two key-issue appearances to her name, and a rogues' gallery résumé that puts her in the same pages as Namor, Captain America, Susan Storm Richards, and even the Watcher himself, Uatu. Her heaviest footprint falls across Fantastic Four Annual, Iron Man Annual, and the sprawling Atlantis Attacks Omnibus, marking her as a fixture of Marvel's aquatic mythology rather than a footnote. For collectors drawn to Bronze Age antagonists with genuine longevity and crossover clout, Llyra is exactly the kind of deep-cut discovery that rewards a closer look.

★ First appearance
Sub-Mariner #36
Apr 1971

Top series

Covers through the years — 1971–2022

Sub-Mariner #36 1971
Sub-Mariner #36
The Defenders #93 1981
The Defenders #93
Web of Spider-Man Annual #5 1989
Web of Spider-Man Annual #5
The New Warriors Annual #1 1991
The New Warriors Annual #1
Namora #1 2010
Namora #1
Silver Surfer Epic Collection #4 2022
Silver Surfer Epic Collection #4

Appearances

Sub-Mariner (1968)
#36
Spécial Strange (1975)
#10
The Defenders (1972)
#93
Strange (1970)
Transformers (1986)
#14
Silver Surfer Annual (1988)
#2
The New Mutants Annual (1984)
#5
X-Men Annual (1970)
#13
Fantastic Four Annual (1963)
#22
Web of Spider-Man Annual (1985)
#5
Iron Man Annual (1976)
#10
The Amazing Spider-Man Annual (1964)
#23
X-Factor Annual (1986)
#4
The Avengers Annual (1967)
#18
The New Warriors Annual (1991)
#1
Namor, the Sub-Mariner Annual (1991)
#2
Mystic Arcana [Scarlet Witch] (2007)
#3
Namora (2010)
#1
X-Men: Phoenix Force Handbook (2010)
Atlantis Attacks Omnibus (2011)
X-Men - La Collection Mutante (2020)
#12
Silver Surfer Epic Collection (2014)
#4
Silver Surfer: Return to the Spaceways Omnibus (2024)