Right off the bat, let me spoil the big surprise of this sequence, because it's the only way I can comment on it. This is from FANTASTIC FOUR ANNUAL# 1, way back in 1963. Prince Namor has finally found his wandering race of Sub-Mariners and claimed his throne, next step is to declare war on the human race. Mr Fantastic requests a special general ( Read more... )

No, no, not that "Rapture!" Seriously now...


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They say the money I used to pay property taxes this year all has the same serial number?"


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This is from YOUNG MEN# 24, December 1953. This was a brief revival by Timely (or Atlas, or Marvel, whatever)of the Human Torch, Captain America and the Sub-Mariner. Here, Bill Everett has Betty Dean explain to her roommate about Namor. (Sounds like a natural submission for READERS DIGEST "Most Unforgettable Person I Ever Met," eh?)


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See, I would have taken him for a Mustang sort of guy. This is the opening to "The Case of the Vanishing Convicts," from MARVEL MYSTERY COMICS# 23, September 1941. (Marvel reprinted it in 1999). Evidently, after he was done killing dozens of New Yorkers in his rampages and before he decided to fight the Axis, Namor bummed around the West Coast for ( Read more... )