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Synopsis for “The Power of the Plunderer”
On their way back to Atlantis following their battle against the Gnome, the Sub-Mariner and Dorma come across a domed city at the oceans floor, built there by surface dwellers. Namor is furious that the surface dwellers would place such a city near Atlantis and decides to go and demand to speak to the creator of this city. Upon reaching the domed city he is attacked by a pair of surface men in diving gear and fights them off. Namor is about to flee to Atlantis in order to return with an army when he is confronted by the cities creator Dr. Walter Newell, who offers Namor to come and talk.
Boarding Newell’s craft, the prince of Atlantis agrees to listen to Walter’s words on Droma’s urgings. Aboard Newell’s craft, Namor is told that Newell has come up with a project to deal with the surface worlds growing population, finding a solution to finding space for all the people by building domed cities on the oceans floor. Despite Newell’s offer of fair trade for allowing this plan to continue, Namor refuses finding the offer worthless. Returning to Lady Dorma they are about to return to Atlantis when suddenly a giant submarine piloted by the Plunderer arrives and attacks in the hopes of robbing the undersea city of all it’s valuables.
In the fire fight between the Plunderer and Newell, the glass dome around the city is cracked causing it to flood with water. Namor refuses Dorma’s request that he try and save the surface dwellers who might drown, however he decides to get in the middle of the fight so that the threat doesn’t endanger nearby Atlantis. Namor’s attack prompts the Plunderer to use a suction device to pull Namor aboard where he attempts to kill the prince of Atlantis with his vibra-gun.
Although the Sub-Mariner has the upper hand, the Plunderer distracts him by showing him a video screen that shows the Plunderer’s men going after Dorma. This leaves Namor open to a direct blast from the vibra-gun leaving the Plunderer to believe Namor dead and resumes his attempt to rob the under water city. Dorma is rescued by Newell, however the two are sucked into the whirl pool caused by the rapidly flooding dome city. The city is completely submersed when the Plunderer rams his sub into the come, cracking it open and flooding it entirely.
When the Sub-Mariner revives alive and well, the Plunderer has no desire to fight him further and ejects him out a vacuum ejector tube and begins stealing supplies that he plans on using to turn his base on Skull Island into an indestructible fortress. As Namor recovers Dorma from Newell (warning him from developing near Atlantis again), the Plunderer escapes and those trapped in the destroyed city manage to escape to the surface where they are picked up by a cruise ship.
In the aftermath of the battle, the Sub-Mariner decides that the Plunderer is too big a threat to allow to continue to operate, for fear he may attack Atlantis next so he and Dorma decide to return to Atlantis to plot how to deal with the Plunderer and end his threat.
This story is continued next issue…
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