Sub-Mariner #72

Namor faces an enormous, dripping green monster called the Slime Thing on this September 1974 cover, the Prince of Atlantis lunging forward with fierce determination while the creature looms massively behind him, claws outstretched. The cover copy warns that both the surface world and Atlantis itself hang in the balance, which sets up a genuinely compelling sense of scale for the interior story, "From the Void It Came…" The cover art, penciled by Larry Lieber and John Romita with inks by Al Milgrom, Mike Esposito, and John Romita, delivers a vivid, kinetic composition that captures Namor at his most driven.