Sub-Mariner #57

Bill Everett handles every creative duty — writing, art, inking, and lettering — on this January 1973 Marvel adventure, making it a remarkably personal showcase for the Atlantean Prince's co-creator. The cover, also entirely Everett's work, pulls you in immediately: a helmeted, crimson-armored war god dominates the scene, sword raised as he looms over a struggling blonde woman, while a small Namor figure watches from the upper corner against a stormy underwater backdrop. Subtitled "Scourge of the Seven Seas" and teasing "In the Wake of the War-God!", this issue promises a mythologically charged clash that puts both Namor and an imperiled woman squarely in a god's destructive path.