Sub-Mariner #36

The wedding of the Sub-Mariner takes a violent turn on this striking 1971 Marvel cover, where Namor shields a woman in red — his bride Dorma — amid a chaos of explosions and a looming alien menace overhead, while a speech balloon ominously declares she shall be his widow. Sal Buscema's cover art captures the dramatic tension beautifully, with Namor's defiant stance and the surrounding devastation hinting at the high stakes of "What Gods Have Joined Together!" Roy Thomas and Sal Buscema (inked here by Bernie Wrightson on interiors) brought real emotional weight to Atlantis's royal saga, making this issue one of the more memorable chapters in Namor's early 1970s run.