Better scale back on Sub-Mariner's powers
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Esoteric trivia, I love it. For a brief time, Prince Namor possessed strange abilities which popped up without explanation and disappeared just as suddenly. Huh. Well, my guess is that this is another example of Jack Kirby's turbocharged imagination kicking in. From the start, Kirby turned in art full of surprises which Stan Lee had to figure out and accomodate.
In FANTASTIC FOUR# 6, when Dr Doom (boo! hiss!) betrayed Sub-Mariner by trying to electrocute him, Namor returned the electricity amplified. He explained his body was like an electric eel in doing this. A few issues later, in FANTASTIC FOUR# 9, December 1962, Sub-Mariner is trying to subdue a defiant Sue Storm. At this point, she hasn't discovered her force field powers and you might say she's a bit outmatched against someone who can slug it out with the Thing and the Hulk. Not that this deters her.
Well, that's convenient, being able to pull super-powers out of your as thin air. I believe this fish-mimicry stuff only was used twice more. In an issue of STRANGE TALES, Sub-Mariner had one of those pointless brawls with the Human Torch, filling a story without leaving any last effect. At one point, Namor inhales air like a puffer fish, bloating up to where he makes Nero Wolfe look like John Carradine.. It'd be pretty funny if he found out he couldn't deflate but no, a few panels later he's back to slim and trim. I personally would have loved it if Namor had archerfish power and disoriented the Thing by spitting hard in his eye. No such luck.
Oh, and don't worry about Sue's virtue being endangered there. Right after these panels, her three teammates bulldozed through the door and ganged up on Namor Dogpile on the rabbit bad guy.
These tiers are taken out of order for clarity. The first row is at the bottom of the page, and the other two on the following one.
http://dr-hermes.livejournal.com/tag/sub-mariner
Esoteric trivia, I love it. For a brief time, Prince Namor possessed strange abilities which popped up without explanation and disappeared just as suddenly. Huh. Well, my guess is that this is another example of Jack Kirby's turbocharged imagination kicking in. From the start, Kirby turned in art full of surprises which Stan Lee had to figure out and accomodate.
In FANTASTIC FOUR# 6, when Dr Doom (boo! hiss!) betrayed Sub-Mariner by trying to electrocute him, Namor returned the electricity amplified. He explained his body was like an electric eel in doing this. A few issues later, in FANTASTIC FOUR# 9, December 1962, Sub-Mariner is trying to subdue a defiant Sue Storm. At this point, she hasn't discovered her force field powers and you might say she's a bit outmatched against someone who can slug it out with the Thing and the Hulk. Not that this deters her.
Well, that's convenient, being able to pull super-powers out of your as thin air. I believe this fish-mimicry stuff only was used twice more. In an issue of STRANGE TALES, Sub-Mariner had one of those pointless brawls with the Human Torch, filling a story without leaving any last effect. At one point, Namor inhales air like a puffer fish, bloating up to where he makes Nero Wolfe look like John Carradine.. It'd be pretty funny if he found out he couldn't deflate but no, a few panels later he's back to slim and trim. I personally would have loved it if Namor had archerfish power and disoriented the Thing by spitting hard in his eye. No such luck.
Oh, and don't worry about Sue's virtue being endangered there. Right after these panels, her three teammates bulldozed through the door and ganged up on Namor Dogpile on the rabbit bad guy.
These tiers are taken out of order for clarity. The first row is at the bottom of the page, and the other two on the following one.