Issue(s): Super-Villain Team-Up #13
Cover Date: Aug 77
Title: "When walks the warlord!"
Credits:
Bill Mantlo - Writer
Keith Giffen - Penciler
Don Perlin - Inker

Review/plot:
Doom makes good on his promise to bring the Atlanteans out of their coma.

It seems that prior to the start of this issue, Doom has also permanently cured Namor of his inability to breathe out of water, so that there is no more need to take an antidote at regular intervals. This isn't said explicitly, but the way Doom talks ("having cured you -- I can most assuredly cure your people") seems to suggest it, and this is the last we'll hear of Namor needing an antidote.

Namor and Doom also get into a fight with Krang and an ancient sea monster.

After the fight, Doom leaves, thinking to himself that while Doom derives his power from strength, Namor derives it from his people.

This revelation may be what triggers a change in the way Doom treats his people. In early depictions, it was generally understood that Doom's people acted like they loved him only because he commanded them to. In later depictions (starting with Byrne's FF), it is somewhat more ambiguous. It is left open that Doom's people really do love him. Perhaps Doom sees something in the way the Atlanteans support Namor that he sees value in.

This issue is basically intended as closure for some Namor plots as, going forward, it was the intent to make this book a Dr. Doom Team-Up.

Nice art this issue by Giffen. A strong Kirby influence.

Quality Rating: C

Historical Significance Rating: 3 - Atlantis is restored, after many issues of all of its inhabitants being in a coma.

Chronological Placement Considerations: Takes place before the Sub-Mariner's appearance in Defenders #52.

References:

• The Atlanteans have been in a coma since Sub-Mariner #67-68.
  
• Dr. Doom provided a solution to Namor's problem when the suit stopped working. The footnote was to issue #9, but it really happened in Super-Villain Team-Up #5-7, and Doom is conveniently leaving out the fact that he was the cause of Namor's problems.
  
• Krang and Namor last fought in Captain America #181.
  
• Krang uses the same horn Namor used in Fantastic Four #4 to summon Giganto (no mention of the fact that Namor used the horn again in Fantastic Four #149). Krang is unable to control the monster he summons.

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A

I love it when Kieth Gitfen wears his Kirby Hat.

Wow, those were some embarrassing typos.