Appearing in "A Legend A-Borning"
Featured Characters:
- Sub-Mariner (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- Leonard McKenzie (Only in flashback)
- Princess Fen (Only in flashback)
- Thakorr (Only in flashback)
Antagonists:
- Krang (Only in flashback)
- Paul Destine (Only in flashback)
Other Characters:
- Celestials (Referenced)
- Deviant of Lemuria (Referenced)
- Neptune, God of Oceans (Referenced)
- King Kamuu the First (Only in flashback)
- Princess Zartra (Only in flashback) (Unnamed)
- Kamuu, Ancient Atlantis King (Referenced)
- King Immanu (Only in flashback) (Death)
- Ikthon (Only in flashback)
- Ernest Shackleton (Mentioned)
- Robert Falcon Scott (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Mutants Atlantean-Human Hybrids
- Humans
- Atlanteans (Homo mermanus): Atlanteans and Lemurians / "Ancients"[1]
- Celestials (Referenced)
- Deviants of Lemuria (Referenced)
Locations:
- Ancient Atlantis (Only in flashback)
- The Atlantean Nation (Only in flashback)
- The first Atlantis (Only in flashback)
- Lemuria (Deviant) (Referenced)
- Tha-Korr (Only in flashback)
- Lemuria (Atlantean) (Referenced)
- Skarka (Referenced)
- Antarctica (Only in flashback)
Items:
- Tablet of Law and Peace (Only in flashback)
- Serpent Crown (Only in flashback)
Vehicles:
Events:
- Lemurian Cataclysm (Only in flashback)
Synopsis for "A Legend A-Borning"
The beginning of a series recapping the history of Namor, the Sub-Mariner. This issue covers the ancient origin of undersea Atlantis, the rise of Homo Mermanus, Kamuu's empire, Lemuria and the Serpent Crown, and the relocation to Antarctica, all leading up to 1920 and the meeting of Princess Fen and Leonard McKenzie that results in the birth of Prince Namor.
Notes
- The story of Namor's origin was previously told in Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1, Marvel Comics #1, Young Men #24, Sub-Mariner Comics #33, Sub-Mariner #1 and Sub-Mariner #38.
- This entire limited series is a retelling of the life story of Prince Namor, written by him in his own words sometime after his second wife, Marrina, apparently died in Avengers #293. After completing the chronicle, Namor left it beside her underwater grave in Saga of the Sub-Mariner #12.
- Some of the ancient history of undersea Atlantis that appears in the first few pages of this issue is not entirely accurate, presumably because it is based on legends known to Namor instead of his memories of events from his life.