Namor #7
In "Lève-toi, Orka !", Namor confronts a chilling psychological torment when a sadistic jailer, obsessed with an ancient alien civilization hidden beneath the Earth, uses a mysterious book to feed false hope to his prisoner. The prisoner, believing the tale, discovers a functional digger and descends into the subterranean world, where he’s welcomed by the long-lost aliens. Left behind, the jailer spends decades in futile pursuit of another digger, haunted by the knowledge of what he’s lost. Steve Ditko’s striking art and Stan Goldberg’s vivid colors bring this haunting tale of illusion and desperation to life, while Gil Kane, John Romita, and Mike Esposito deliver a cover that captures the story’s eerie, otherworldly tension.
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A sadistic jailer buys a book detailing an alien civilization that has retreated below the Earth in order to avoid surface climate change in order to torment his prisoner with false hope of escape. The prisoner finds the book and believes the story and later he finds a working digger to bring him down to the aliens below who welcome him. The astonished jailer spends the rest of his life successfully attempting to locate another working digger.
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