Goddess From The Sea

"'Surface men are weak and easy to fool! It was worth the loss of some of my subjects to learn this' - Lalora"“Goddess From the Sea” is a black-and-white horror comic story written by Don Glut with art by Neal Adams. It was first published in September 1969 in the first issue of the horror magazine Vampirella, published by Warren Publishing, along with several other comic stories as part of the anthology.

Plot Summary
A man sees a beautiful woman, with blue-green skin, walk out from the waters of the sea. He rushes over to the woman and asks her who she is and where she comes from. She tells him that she comes from the ocean and pleads with him to take her to his home. The man is captured by his beauty and quickly obeys.

They enter his home, locking the door behind them, and the woman introduces herself as Lalora and the man responds that his name is Jim Judson. Lalora confesses that she comes from Atlantis and that she fled from the underwater city in order to escape the tyranny and oppression of the warlords.

But her escape was noticed and seven mighty warriors are hunting her and are currently rising from the sea in order to ensure her return. Jim finds her story difficult to believe, but her peculiar skin tone and her apparent fear convinces him to take her far away for her protection.

Lalora and Jim Judson share a passionate kiss that is interrupted when the vicious warriors from Atlantis begin their attack on Jim’s home, breaking down the walls. Jim attacks the men in order to protect Lalora and even manages to use their own weapons against them, killing several of the vicious warlords.

But he is distracted in the battle and the other men take Lalora and begin their return to the sea. Jim rushes to the water and dives into the sea, he swims deeper and deeper in order to save Lalora but as he loses his breath he discovers a startingly truth. Lalora was an elaborate lure, the ruler of her people, used in order to bring Jim to his death at the bottom of the sea.

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