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Prince Eric Khorum Rhann-First Son of Aqualonia-foremost undersea kingdom of Hydro-Pangea, one of the many sub surface sea nation of Terra-Prime-a huge dysonsphere, found within the colonial regions of the Terran Federation. This is one of many Tales of Terra-Prime and one of many characters that exist there, upon this lost world.[A somewhat retelling of the undersea Atlantean myth. like you see in similar comics like Aquaman or Prince Namor. also similar to Conan and King Kull, but under water,]tm,(c). Maveric Comics,Inc.Studios, Maveric Comics Group/entertainment /Maveric Characters,Inc,]
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Prince Eric Khorum Rhann-First Son of Aqualonia-foremost undersea kingdom of Hydro-Pangea, one of the many sub surface sea nation of Terra-Prime-a huge dysonsphere, found within the colonial regions of the Terran Federation. This is one of many Tales of Terra-Prime and one of many characters that exist there, upon this
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Prince Eric Khorum Rhann-First Son of Aqualonia-foremost undersea kingdom of Hydro-Pangea, one of the many sub surface sea nation of Terra-Prime-a huge dysonsphere, found within the colonial regions of the Terran Federation. This is one of many Tales of Terra-Prime and one of many characters that exist there, upon this
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PRINCE ERIC KHORUM RHANN
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Real Name: PRINCE ERIC KHORUM RHANN Aliases: First Son of Aqualonia/ Lord of the Seventeen Seas/: Scourge of the Seventeen Seas/The Scourge of the Sea.
Real given Name: Eric Khorum Rhann, Prince of Aqualonia. Eric Khorum Rhann, is named after his father Eric Primus Rhann and Grand Father Vallan Khorum Rhann.
Height: 6.2 Weight: 290 lbs
Eyes: Blue/green with golden reflections
Hair: Dark black, with blue high lights.
Distinguishing Features: .Elfish eye brows. Nanotech warpaint over both upper cheek bones, and chin area.
Occupation: Warrior Prince of Aqualonia/ First Son of Aqualonia/Undersea Adventurer.
Citizenship:
Place of Creation/Birth: Valley of Khu-Rhell.Turhan Empire outer Colonial Frontier. Undersea of World of Terra-Prime.
Known Relatives: Prince Toreus Rhann,
Known Allies: Lady Jessica Draigo=Princess of Lemairia, Warlord <
Prince Isaack Draigo- Prince of Lemairia Prince
Known Enemies: Various-Warlord King Lockharr Khonn,
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: Namor’s Concept Art Underway!
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From the Comics Continuum:
Conceptual artwork for the Namor live-action movie has begun, Marvel Studios' Kevin Feige told The Continuum. Namor is set up at Universal Pictures, with David Self (Road to Perdition) writing the script.
"Namor, that's a big one," Feige told The Continuum during its recent visit to the Marvel Studios offices. "We just got a new draft of the script in. The script is so spectacular and there are so many great things in it, we just wanted to have a conceptual artist come in and start doing some early renders.
"Then when we get a director on board, he'll come in and steer the project.” Because of its scope -- Namor has been described as "Star Wars underwater" -- it appears the earliest the movie would be in theaters would be 2006.
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NAMOR MOVIE UPDATE
Conceptual artwork for the Namor live-action movie has begun, Marvel Studios' Kevin Feige told The Continuum.
Namor is set up at Universal Pictures, with David Self (Road to Perdition) writing the script.
"Namor, that's a big one," Feige told The Continuum during its recent visit to the Marvel Studios offices. "We just got a new draft of the script in. The script is so spectacular and there are so many great things in it, we just wanted to have a conceptual artist come in and start doing some early renders.
"Then when we get a director on board, he'll come in and steer the project."
Because of its scope -- Namor has been described as "Star Wars underwater" -- it appears the earliest the movie would be in theaters would be 2006.
Look for more from The Continuum's visit to Marvel Studios on Tuesday
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On the net. Me. I'd say Keanu Reeves, as Prince Namor, but that’s just me. I'm not producing the thing and neither is Wizard or any of you, so our opinions really don't count for much in the end.
JGT.
More below. More on my site.
: Namor’s Concept Art Underway!
SUBMITTED BY Typhon24
January 26, 2004 —
From the Comics Continuum:
Conceptual artwork for the Namor live-action movie has begun, Marvel Studios' Kevin Feige told The Continuum. Namor is set up at Universal Pictures, with David Self (Road to Perdition) writing the script.
"Namor, that's a big one," Feige told The Continuum during its recent visit to the Marvel Studios offices. "We just got a new draft of the script in. The script is so spectacular and there are so many great things in it, we just wanted to have a conceptual artist come in and start doing some early renders.
"Then when we get a director on board, he'll come in and steer the project.” Because of its scope -- Namor has been described as "Star Wars underwater" -- it appears the earliest the movie would be in theaters would be 2006. Hit the link below for more! Source: Comics Continuum
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NAMOR MOVIE UPDATE
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Namor is set up at Universal Pictures, with David Self (Road to Perdition) writing the script.
"Namor, that's a big one," Feige told The Continuum during its recent visit to the Marvel Studios offices. "We just got a new draft of the script in. The script is so spectacular and there are so many great things in it, we just wanted to have a conceptual artist come in and start doing some early renders. "Then when we get a director on board, he'll come in and steer the project.” Because of its scope -- Namor has been described as "Star Wars underwater" -- it appears the earliest the movie would be in theaters would be 2006. Look for more from The Continuum's visit to Marvel Studios on Tuesday Link: Prince Eric Khorum Rhann ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sincerely yours-Upward Onward Maveric.
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William Blake "Bill" Everett, also known as William Blake and Everett Blake (born May 18, 1917, Cambridge, Massachusetts; died February 27, 1973) was a comic book writer-artist best known for creating Namor the Sub-Mariner and co-creating Daredevil for Marvel Comics. He is a descendant of the poet William Blake.[1][2]
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• 1 Biography
o 1.1 Early life and career
o 1.2 Sub-Mariner
o 1.3 Atlas Comics
o 1.4 Marvel Comics
• 2 Footnotes
• 3 References
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[edit] Early life and career
Bill Everett spent his early life in Arizona, graduating high school there before returning to his native Massachusetts to study at Boston's Vesper George School of Art from 1934-35.[3] Influenced by commercial magazines artists such as Meade Schaeffer, Dean Cornwell, and especially Floyd Davis,[3] soon dropped out to become a professional artist on the advertising staff of the Boston newspaper The Herald-Traveler for $12 a week.[3] Soon afterward, he left to become a draftsmen for the civil engineering firm The Brooks System, in Newton, Massachusetts.[3] From there he pursued work in Phoenix, Arizona and Los Angeles, California without success. He returned East, to New York City, where he again did newspaper advertising art, for the New York Herald-Tribune.[3] He next became art editor for Teck Publications' Radio News magazine, then assistant art director under Herm Bollin in Chicago, Illinois.[3] Fired for being, as Everett described, "too cocky", he returned to New York where sought employment as an art director. With no luck at this, and desperate for work, he ran into an old Teck colleague, Walter Holze, who was now working in the new field of comic books. As Everett recalled in the late 1960s, "He asked me if I could do comics. I said, 'Sure!!' At that point I was starving. I wasn't interested in the comics business; I was talked into it".[3]
Freelancing for Centaur Publications, Everett "sold my first page for $2 — writing, penciling, inking and all. 'Skyrocket Steele' was my first strip".[3] Soon he was getting $10 and then $14 a page, a respectable sum during this late-1930s period near the beginning of what historians and fans call the Golden Age of comic books. Everett co-created the superhero Amazing-Man at Centaur, working with company art director Lloyd Jacquet, and drew the first five issues.[3]
Everett and other creators followed Jacquet to his new company Funnies, Inc., one of the first comic-book "packagers" that would create comics on demand for publishers. Everett recalled, "I left Centaur with Lloyd Jacquet and another chap whose name as Max; I cannot remember his last name. Lloyd... had an idea that he wanted to start his own art service — to start a small organization to supply artwork and editorial material to publishers. ... He asked me to join him. He also asked Carl Burgos. So we were the nucleus...."[4] He added, "I don't know how to explain it, but I was still on a freelance basis. That was the agreement we had. The artists, including myself, at Funnies, worked on a freelance basis".[4]
[edit] Sub-Mariner
At Funnies, Inc., Everett created the Sub-Mariner for an aborted project, Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1, a planned promotional comic to be given away in movie theaters. When plans changed, Everett used his character instead for Funnies, Inc.'s first client, pulp magazine publisher Martin Goodman. The original eight-page story was expanded by four pages for Marvel Comics #1 (Oct. 1939), the first publication of what Goodman would eventually call Timely Comics, the 1940s precursor of Marvel Comics. Everett's anti-hero proved a sudden success, quickly becoming one of Timely's top three characters, along with Carl Burgos' android superhero the Human Torch and Jack Kirby & Joe Simon's Captain America. Everett soon introduced such supporting characters as New York City policewoman Betty Dean, a steady companion and occasional love-interest, and Namor's cousin Namora.
Everett drew his star character in Sub-Mariner Comics, published first quarterly, then thrice-yearly and finally bimonthly, for issues #1-32 (Fall 1941 - June 1949).
Everett entered the U.S. Army for World War II military service in February 1942.[5] He attended Officer Candidate School at Fort Belvoir, during which time he met Gwenn Randall, who was work for the Ordnance Department at the Pentagon.[5] The couple married in 1944, when Everett returned from the European theater of operations, and their first child, a daughter, was born shortly before Everett was shipped out to the Philippines to fight in the Pacific theater; he returned home in February 1946.[5] With some money inherited from a great-uncle, Everett took some time off and traveled before settling in Fairbury, Nebraska, his wife's hometown. "This was when I renewed by association with Martin Goodman, working by mail on a freelance basis, picking up the Sub-Mariner where I'd left off four years ago".[6] His first recorded post-war credit is writing and full art for the 12-page story "Sub-Mariner vs. Green-Out" in Sub-Mariner Comics #21 (Fall 1946) — the third of three Sub-Mariner stories that issue, for which Syd Shores drew the cover. Everett was soon providing Sub-Mariner stories regularly for the solo title as well as for The Human Torch, Marvel Mystery Comics and even Blonde Phantom Comics.
Additionally, he drew the title feature in the three-issue spin-off series Namora (Aug.-Dec. 1948).
[edit] Atlas Comics
By now, Timely Comics had evolved into Marvel's 1950s iteration, Atlas Comics. Like most superhero characters in the postwar era, the Sub-Mariner had faded in popularity, and his solo title had been canceled in 1949. But after a nearly five-year hiatus, he briefly returned with Captain America and the Golden Age Human Torch in Young Men #24 (Dec. 1953), during Atlas' mid-1950s attempt at reviving superheroes. Everett drew the Sub-Mariner feature through Young Men #28 (June 1954) and in Sub-Mariner Comics #33-42 (April 1954 - Oct. 1955), which outlasted the other two characters' features. During this time, Namora had her own spin-off series.
Everett also drew the features "Venus" and "Marvel Boy", as well as a large number of stories for Atlas' anthological horror-fantasy series. One such tale, "Zombie!", written by editor-in-chief Stan Lee and published in Menace #5, introduced the character Simon Garth, the Zombie, who in the 1970s would be plucked from this one-shot story to star in Marvel's black-and-white, horror-comics magazine Tales of the Zombie.
[edit] Marvel Comics
With writer-editor Lee, Everett co-created the Marvel superhero Daredevil, who debuted in Daredevil #1 (April 1964). Comics historian and former Jack Kirby assistant Mark Evanier, investigating claims of Kirby's involvement in the creation of both Iron Man and Daredevil, interviewed Kirby and Everett and found that,
“ in both cases, Jack had already drawn the covers of those issues and done some amount of design work. He ... seems to have participated in the design of Daredevil's first costume. ... Everett did tell me that Jack had come up with the idea of Daredevil's billy club. ... Jack, in effect, drew the first page of that first Daredevil story. In the rush to get that seriously late book to press, there wasn't time to complete Page One, so Stan had [production manager] Sol Brodsky slap together a paste-up that employed Kirby's cover drawing. ... Everett volunteered to me that Jack had 'helped him' though he wouldn't — or more likely, couldn't — elaborate on that. He just plain didn't remember it well, and in later years apparently gave others who asked a wide range of answers.[7]
”
2000s Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada noted that when Everett turned in his first-issue pencils extremely late, Brodsky and Spider-Man artist Steve Ditko inked "a lot of backgrounds and secondary figures on the fly [and] cobbled the cover and the splash page together from Kirby's original concept drawing"[8] In an interview conducted by Marvel writer-editor and Everett's one-time roommate Roy Thomas, in what the latter recalled as either "late 1969 or in 1970", Everett said of Daredevil's creation five years earlier:
“ I must have called Stan, had some contact with him, I don't know why. I know we tried to do it on the phone. I know he had this idea for Daredevil; he thought he had an idea. ... With a long-distance phone call, it just wasn't coming out right, so I said, 'All right, I'll come down this weekend or something. I'll take a day off [from his job as art director of Eton Paper Corporation in Massachusetts] and come down to New York'. ... I did the one issue, but I found that I couldn't do it and handle my job, because it was a managerial job; I didn't get paid overtime but I was on an annual salary, so my time was not my own. I was putting in 14 or 15 hours a day at the plant and then to come home and try to do comics at night was just too much. And I didn't make deadlines — I just couldn't make them — so I just did the one issue and didn't do any more.[9]
”
Within two years, however, Everett began penciling for Marvel once again, first on the character the Hulk, in Tales to Astonish, initially over Kirby layouts, and on Doctor Strange in Strange Tales. Readers during this 1960s Silver Age of comic books also became acquainted with his Golden Age and 1950s stories in the comic books, which were reprinted first in the book The Great Comic Book Heroes, by Jules Feiffer (Dial Press, 1965), and then in the comic books Fantasy Masterpieces, Marvel Super-Heroes and Marvel Tales.
Everett even returned to his enduring character, writing, penciling and inking Sub-Mariner #50-55 & 57 (June 1972 - Nov. 1972; Jan. 1973), with script assists by Mike Friedrich on two issues; and #58 (Feb. 1973), co-written with Steve Gerber and co-penciled with Sam Kweskin. He also co-wrote and inked Sub-Mariner #59 (March 1973), plotted #60 (April 1973), and co-wrote, co-penciled (with fellow Golden Ager Win Mortimer) and co-inked #61 (May 1973). His final efforts on the character he created were five pages of pencils (inked by fellow Golden Ager Fred Kida) that appeared posthumously in Super-Villain Team-Up #1 (Aug. 1975).
[edit] Footnotes
1. ^ Interview with granddaughter Wendy Everett, Comic Book Artist #2 (Summer 1998)
2. ^ Whitson, Roger. "William Blake and Visual Culture", ImageTexT vol. 3, #2 (2006)], pub. Department of English, University of Florida
3. ^ a b c d e f g h i Steranko, Jim. The Steranko History of Comics - Volume One (Supergraphics, 1970), p. 59. The book's Everett interview closely coincides with a letter from Everett to Jerry DeFuccio, written May 19, 1961, originally published in The Comics, vol. 10, #1, and reprinted at the website Live ForEverett
4. ^ a b Bill Everett interview, originally published in Alter Ego #11, 1978; reprinted in Alter Ego vol. 3, #46 (March 2005); p. 8 of the latter.
5. ^ a b c Steranko, History of Comics, p. 60
6. ^ Steranko, History of Comics, p. 61
7. ^ Evanier, Mark. POV Online: "The Jack FAQ"
8. ^ Quesada, Joe. Newsarama: "Joe Fridays" (column) #4
9. ^ Everett interview, Alter Ego (2005), pp. 28-29
[edit] References
• Bill Everett at Grand Comics Database
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NAMOR vs. HUMAN TORCH by BILL EVERETT
#75 BILL EVERETT
From the 30's to the 70's, Bill Everett produced some of the best laid out, most inspired stories in comics. Along the way he created the Sub-Mariner and drew the first issue of Marvel's Daredevil. Working first in a simple, exaggerated style, he latterly developed a fuller look, evident in his work on the Hulk, and his return to Sub-Mariner in the 70's. His finishes were at least as important to the overall picture as his drawing, and his unusual, highly detailed inks were unmistakable. Unfortunately, drinking got the better of Bill, and he died at 56, with years of unrealized work within his hands.
SEE: Marvel Mystery Comics #9; Daredevil #1
Biography:
[Authors Note: This biography, a form of fan fiction, will appear in chapters as I get them completed. I intend to stay as true to the history (and retcon history) of the character as possible but a little creative license will I'm sure find it's way in. Chapter One, tentitively titled "A Cold Slap in the Face", is currently in development.]
Timeline:
1920 Namor's mother, Princess Fen of the Royal House of Atlantis, meets his father, Leonard McKenzie, the captain of an American scientific expedition to the south pole [2].
1922 Namor is born on February 2nd. [3].
1931 Namor learns he can survive indefinitely above water unlike the rest of his undersea Sub-Mariner kin. This strengthens his pride in himself and helps him feel closer to his father and his father's people, the Americans. [6].
1934 Namor learns just how exceptional his strength is when his mother, Princess Fen, is trapped by a fallen boom on an undersea shipwreck and it is up to Namor to save her. This incident, caused by Byrrah, stepson of the Atlantean emperor as part of an ongoing one-upsmanship with Namor, foreshadows much of the rivalry between the two. [7].
1936 The wings on Namor's ankles manifest for the first time saving him from a catastrophic fall from an ice cliff. [8].
1937 Namor's mother, Princess Fen, introduces him to his cousin Namora whom he hasn't seen since they were babies. At first he dismisses her as "just a girl" but is forced to eat his words in humility when she rescuses him from where he'd become trapped in the torpedo tube of a sunken submarine. [10]. Chronologically (in the real time of our universe) this is NOT the first appearance of Namora (which was in Marvel Mystery Comics 82) but this telling (by Bill Everett in Sub-Mariner Comics 39) occurs earlier in Namor's life. See the 1947 timeline entry for further details and the "Index Detail" below for more information.
1938 During an expedition to Admiral Byrd's abandoned settlement at Little America on the antarctic ice shelf Namor, Namora and Byrrah come face to face with fire for the first time when Namora knocks over a metal container of kerosene which ignites during the fall because of a metal on metal spark. Namor is forced to confront the flames in his attempt to rescue Namora, who is trapped inside a building by the fire, and learns that when his body is wet he is mostly impervious to fire damage. [11].
1939 Namor is attacked in flight by a Nazi aircraft while showing off in front of his friends. Knowing nothing of airplanes he vows that "No mere bird is going to sting me!" and after ripping the bombs (which he thinks are eggs) from the wings of the plane he tries to force it down by damaging the tail. He is a little too successful in his attempt and is trapped by the vortex downdraft and crashes into the sea. The impact and the concussion of the planes impact and explosion knocks Namor unconscious. He awakens in the arms of his mother to learn he is a hero for his actions.[12].
1939 Namor, as a teenager, learns the story of his parents meeting and is told by his mother that because of his remarkable abilities it is his duty to lead the Atlanteans into battle against the surface world. [3].
1939 Namor discovers (and inadvertently kills) two deep-sea divers searching a sunken ship for salvage. He brings their corpses to the Antarctic, and this is hailed as his first act as the Avenging Son against the surface people. [3].
1939 Namor meets his young cousin Dorma and allows her to accompany him in his first foray against the surface men, an attack on a coastal lighthouse.
1940 Namor meets police woman Betty Dean during a failed search and strike mission to New York City. [4]. A few months later he returns to avenge his failure but is stopped by The Human Torch in their first encounter. [5].
1941 Namor (The Sub-Mariner), The Human Torch and Steve Rogers (Captain America) team up along with Toro, (the Torch's sidekick) and Bucky Barnes (Captain America's sidekick) to form The Invaders. The adventures of The Invaders were not told until much later by Roy Thomas in the 1970's. The official reason for this is listed as... "Secrecy, plus the fact that most Invaders missions took place overseas..." i.e. "Only now can these stories be told." [3].
1947 Namor decides to visit one of the undersea Pacific kingdoms of his people but finds the castle has been attacked, the people killed and the treasure of pearls looted. As he moves among the dead he finds a lone survivor, a young woman named Aquaria Nautica Neptunia, who (once she recovers) asks to aid Namor in avenging the death of their people and her father their king. After proving to Namor that she is as swift a swimmer as he is, he agrees and Aquaria says that since they are going to be partners he might as well call her Namora. [9]. Chronologically (in the real time of our universe) this is the first appearance of Namora (in Marvel Mystery Comics 82) and it is told as if it were the first meeting between the two characters. However, this is in direct contradiction to a later telling of their first meeting (by Bill Everett in Sub-Mariner Comics 39) in which Namora is introduced to Namor at a much earlier age by his mother, Princess Fen, as his cousin that he hasn't seen since they were babies. [10].
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Namor the Sub-Mariner
Status: In development
Background: Created in 1939 by Bill Everett, Namor the Sub-Mariner made his first public appearance in Marvel Comics #1, the first comic from Timely Comics. Timely would metamorphose into Marvel Comics eventually, but during Namor's early days he was a top tier character for the company along with Captain America and the first Human Torch. His appearances would become sporadic in the 1950s, but he was revived by Stan Lee (quite literally) at the dawn of the Silver Age of comics in Fantastic Four #4 in 1962. He has been a regular character in Marvel continuity ever since.
The Character: Namor is the offspring of a human and an Atlantean princess, and as such he is endowed with great power including flight, super-strength, invulnerability, and of course all the abilities of a dude who can live underwater too. He is sometimes portrayed as a bad guy, or as an anti-hero -- though usually his motivation for his actions is the protection of his homeland of Atlantis -- but he has also served honorably on teams like the Avengers and the Invaders.
The Movie: A Namor movie has been talked about for several years now, with Terminator 3's Jonathan Mostow currently at work on the project. Marvel Studios' president of production Kevin Feige told IGN just last month that Mostow is "doing a rewrite on it, with the intention to direct, and that script should be coming in a few weeks." Previously, Harry Potter helmer Chris Columbus had been in talks to direct a film version at Universal based on a script by David Self (Road to Perdition). Whether or not Mostow gets the project going where Columbus couldn't, the real question seems to be how audiences will react to an underwater superhero movie in this post-Entourage world of ours where Aquaman (DC's Namor, essentially) is something of a joke. Perhaps best to base the hero back in World War II with Cap and the Human Torch, where he flourished way back when?
Big Screen Prospects: Golden, Tarnished, or Rusted? Tarnished
Captain America
Status: In development
Background: Created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, Captain American first appeared, appropriately enough, in Captain America Comics #1 in March 1941. His first appearance predated America's involvement in World War II, and yet the character obviously appealed to the patriotic side of its readers -- check out Cap smacking around Hitler on the cover of the first issue -- and he soon became one of the most popular heroes of his day. Like Namor, he faded from the pages of the funny books in the '50s only to be revived by Marvel in 1964 in The Avengers.
The Character: Steve Rogers was a puny young man who wanted to enlist in the Army and fight the Nazis in the 1940s. Because of his poor physical condition, however, he was rejected. But a top secret government program was in need of test subjects, and Rogers volunteered. He was given the "Super-Soldier" serum, which turned him into the perfect human being -- a man in peak physical form. Donning the colors of the U.S. flag and his trusty shield, Cap took on Hitler and more. Because, you know, all those who oppose his shield must yield.
The Movie: With the recent surge in popularity of the character in the public consciousness -- the result of his "death" in the pages of Marvel Comics -- the time seems ripe to get a Cap movie off the ground. Marvel Studios' Kevin Feige would seem to agree. "I have a writer on Captain America right now," Feige recently told IGN. "I'm hoping to get a director on that very soon, to get that into the pipeline in the next year or so." Feige also revealed that none other than David Self is that writer -- Self apparently likes his WWII-era superheroes. Feige also confirmed that the film will at least partially take place in the golden age of Steve Roger's past: "Right now what we're developing would be about half and half, I'd say."
Big Screen Prospects: Golden, Tarnished, or Rusted? Golden
The Human Torch
Status: No plans
Background: Not to be confused with the Fantastic Four's modern Human Torch, this original Human Torch was created by Carl Burgos and first appeared in Marvel Comics #1 in 1939 (along with Namor the Sub-Mariner) for Timely Comics. Together with Namor and Captain America, the Human Torch completed the trinity of Timely's most significant wartime and post-war superheroes. But like his counterparts, the Torch grew less and less popular as superhero comics went out of fashion in the 1950s and he was essentially dropped, though he would eventually resurface in modern Marvel Comics continuity.
The Character: The Human Torch was an android created by one Professor Phineas T. Horton. At first considered a menace (if an inadvertent one), once the Torch mastered his powers he became a force for good. In fact, in Marvel continuity, the Torch actually killed Hitler at the end of World War II! Also known as Jim Hammond in his "human" form, the Marvel Torch's origin has become closely linked with that of the Avengers' resident android the Vision. Effectively, they are one and the same being (long story). Most recently the Human Torch sacrificed himself during battle in the Civil War miniseries.
The Movie: No film version of the original Human Torch is currently in the works, which isn't surprising considering that Fox already has a Human Torch in their Fantastic Four films.
Big Screen Prospects: Golden, Tarnished, or Rusted? Rusted
Namor
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Namor the Sub-Mariner
Prince Namor. Cover art for Sub-Mariner #1 (2007 limited series), by Michael Turner
Publication information
Publisher
Marvel Comics
First appearance
Motion Picture Funnies Weekly (April 1939)
Created by
Bill Everett (writer & artist)
In story information
Alter ego Namor McKenzie
Species Homo Mermanus/Homo Sapiens Hybrid
Place of origin Atlantis
Team affiliations Invaders
All-Winners Squad
Avengers
Defenders
Order
Deep Six
Illuminati
Notable aliases Namor the First, the Avenging Son, Imperius Rex, the Sub-Mariner
Abilities Amphibious physiology
Superhuman strength, flight speed, stamina, durability and longevity
Telepathic and electrical powers
Namor the Sub-Mariner is a fictional, comic-book character in the Marvel Comics universe, and one of the first superheroes, debuting in Spring 1939. The character was created by writer-artist Bill Everett for Funnies, Inc., one of the first "packagers" in the early days of comic books that supplied comics on demand to publishers looking to enter the new medium. Initially created for the unreleased comic Motion Picture Funnies Weekly, the Sub-Mariner first appeared publicly in Marvel Comics #1 (Oct. 1939) — the first comic book from Timely Comics, the 1930s-1940s predecessor of the company Marvel Comics. During that period, known to historians and fans as the Golden Age of Comic Books, the Sub-Mariner was one of Timely's top three characters, along with Captain America and the original Human Torch. Everett said the character's name was inspired by Samuel Coleridge's poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".[1]
The son of a human sea captain and of a princess of the mythical undersea kingdom of Atlantis, Namor possesses the super-strength and aquatic abilities of the "Homo mermanus" race. Through the years, he has been alternatively portrayed as a good-natured but short-fused superhero, or a hostile invader seeking vengeance for perceived wrongs that misguided surface-dwellers committed against his kingdom.
The first known comic book anti-hero, the Sub-Mariner has remained a historically important and relatively popular Marvel character.
Contents
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• 1 Publication history
o 1.1 Golden Age
o 1.2 Silver Age and after
• 2 Fictional character biography
o 2.1 Illuminati
o 2.2 Destruction of Atlantis
o 2.3 Secret Invasion
• 3 Powers and abilities
• 4 "Marvel's First Mutant"
• 5 Personality
• 6 Other versions
o 6.1 MC2
o 6.2 Ultimate Namor
o 6.3 1602
o 6.4 Marvel Zombies
o 6.5 House of M
• 7 In other media
o 7.1 Film
o 7.2 Animated series
o 7.3 Video games
• 8 Bibliography
o 8.1 Solo series and features
o 8.2 As team member
• 9 Footnotes
• 10 References
• 11 External links
[edit] Publication history
[edit] Golden Age
Namor the Sub-Mariner first appeared in April 1939 in the prototype for a planned giveaway comic titled Motion Picture Funnies Weekly, produced by the comic book packager Funnies, Inc. The only eight known samples among those created to send to theater owners were discovered in the estate of the deceased publisher in 1974. When the giveaway idea fell through, creator Everett used the character for Marvel Comics #1, the first comic book by Funnies, Inc. client Timely Comics, predecessor of Marvel. The final panel of the earlier, unpublished eight-page Sub-Mariner story had included a "Continued Next Week" box that reappeared, sans lettering, in an expanded 12-page story. The series Marvel Comics was re-titled Marvel Mystery Comics with issue #2 (Dec. 1939).
Namor's first cover appearance: Marvel Mystery Comics #4 (Feb. 1940). Art by Alex Schomburg.
Everett's unique, early anti-hero would, in time, battle Carl Burgos' android superhero, the Human Torch, yet eventually, as the U.S. entered the Second World War, ally himself with the Torch and the allies against Adolf Hitler and the Axis Powers. Other friends included Betty Dean, a New York policewoman introduced in Marvel Mystery Comics #3 (and later known as Betty Dean-Prentiss), who was a steady companion, and his cousins Namora and Dorma.
Namor starred in the Golden Age comic book Sub-Mariner Comics, published quarterly, then thrice-yearly, and finally bimonthly, from issues #1-32 (Fall 1941 - June 1949). A backup feature each issue starred the detective-superhero the Angel. Along with many other Timely characters, Namor disappeared not long after the end of WWII and the decline in popularity of superhero comics. He also briefly fought crime as a member of the post-war superhero team the All-Winners Squad, and, through a 1970s retcon, was given a history of having fought with the Allies during World War II in the superhero team the Invaders. Both these super-groups were built around the core of Namor, Captain America, and the original Human Torch. Some issues of the 1975-1979 series The Invaders reprinted Golden Age Sub-Mariner stories.
The Sub-Mariner experienced a brief revival in the mid-1950s, starting with Young Men #24 (which also briefly revived Captain America and the original Human Torch) and then in Sub-Mariner Comics #33-42 (April 1954 - Oct. 1955). During this time, Namora had her own spin-off series.
[edit] Silver Age and after
Namor returned in The Fantastic Four #4 (May 1962), where a member of the titular superhero team, Johnny Storm, the new Human Torch, discovers him living as an amnesiac homeless man in the Bowery section of Manhattan. Storm shaves the "bum" with his flames, recognizes Namor, and dumps him into the river in the hopes of restoring his memory, which it does. Namor immediately returns to his undersea kingdom (given a name in this issue for the first time in Namor's history, as Atlantis), but finds only an outpost destroyed by nuclear testing during his amnesiac years. He assumes that all his people are scattered and that he will never find them. Vowing vengeance on the surface world, he attacks it with an array of sea creatures. As the Fantastic Four battles him, he becomes enamored of team-member Sue Storm, a romantic crush he would carry for years.
Silver Age Sub-Mariner #1 (May 1968). Cover art by John Buscema and Sol Brodsky.
In The Avengers #4 (March 1964), Namor discovers an Arctic tribe worshipping a frozen figure preserved in a block of ice. Enraged at the idolatry, he throws the block into the ocean, where, after Namor's departure, it subsequently melts to reveal Captain America's body frozen in suspended animation; the superhero team the Avengers would shortly revive him. The previous issue, Namor joins the Hulk in an attack on the Avengers, but is repulsed when the temperamental Hulk leaves the fight.
This Namor, beginning in the 1960s during a period known as the Silver Age of comic books, is more authoritative, arrogant and solemn than the impetuous youthful character of the 1940s and mid-1950s, speaking in neo-Shakespearean dialogue rather than the more colloquial speech of his youth.
Again an anti-hero during this period, Namor variously finds himself allied with the supervillains Doctor Doom and Magneto, but his royal nobility and stubborn independent streak make these alliances-of-convenience short-lived. After various early guest-appearances, — including in Daredevil #7 (April 1965), a rare superhero story drawn by comics legend Wally Wood — Namor receives his own starring feature in the split-title comic Tales to Astonish (beginning issue #70, Aug. 1965). He was then spun-off into his own title, the 1968-74 series The Sub-Mariner. Some of the later issues of this series are notable for having been written and drawn by the character's creator, Bill Everett, shortly before his death; as well, they re-introduced a now-older Namora, and introduced her daughter, Namorita Prentiss.
Although he has served alongside, or even as a member of, superhero teams — most notably the Defenders, a "non-team" in which through mystical means he was forced to ally with Dr. Strange, the Hulk and the Silver Surfer, the Avengers, and both the World War II and modern-day versions of the Invaders — Namor remains an outsider.
The 12-issue miniseries Namor (June 2003 - May 2004), credited to co-writers Bill Jemas (then Marvel's president) and Andi Watson, and penciled initially by Salvador Larroca and later by Patrick Olliffe and others, explored Namor's youth, charting his teenage romance with a young American girl in the early 20th century. A six-issue miniseries, Sub-Mariner vol. 2 (Aug. 2007 - Jan. 2008), by co-writers Matt Cherniss and Peter Johnson and, primarily, artist Phil Briones, introduced Namor's heretofore undisclosed son, Kamar.
Never fundamentally either a hero or a villain, Namor has protected his kingdom and sought vengeance on the surface world only when he feels his realm is threatened.
[edit] Fictional character biography
Namor was born in the capital city of the Atlantean empire, then located off the Antarctic coast; he was born of the pairing of Atlantean Emperor Thakorr's daughter, Fen, and an American sea captain, Leonard McKenzie, of the icebreaker Oracle. When Fen did not return from investigating the ship's presence in their Antarctic waters, Thakorr sent soldiers to attack the Oracle, thinking her captured. In truth, McKenzie had taken her as his bride. In the ensuing attack, McKenzie was believed killed, and Fen returned to her kingdom. Nine months later, a pink-skinned child was born among the blue-skinned Atlanteans. He was raised in Atlantis, and when he matured would alternate between living there and adventuring in the oceans and on the surface. He became the Prince of Atlantis, and a warrior for his people.
When World War II broke out Namor put aside his differences with the surface world and fought alongside the team of Allied heroes that called themselves the Invaders. Namor was injured after the war and lived for a time in the Bowery district of New York as an amnesiac derelict who went by the name "Macin". During this time, the original site of Atlantis was destroyed by nuclear testing, forcing the inhabitants to move to a new location. After being awakened from his amnesia by Johnny Storm of the Fantastic Four, Namor discovered the ruins of Atlantis. Believing his people destroyed along with his city, Namor vowed revenge on humanity. After several attacks thwarted by heroes including the Fantastic Four and the Avengers, Namor finally discovered the new home of the Atlantean people. After being repelled one more time in attempt to seize New York with his empire behind him, he called off his now baseless vendetta.
Sub-Mariner #67 (Nov. 1973), introducing the short-lived mid-'70s costume. Cover art by John Romita & Mike Esposito.
Namor eventually returned to Atlantis to marry his cousin Lady Dorma, with whom he had fallen in love. However, Llyra, an evil princess of Lemuria, another submarine culture, kidnapped and replaced Dorma at the wedding hoping to usurp Namor's kingdom in that way. Legally, though, Dorma was the one Namor had married, but he still had to find his wife. Unfortunately, Llyra had taken Dorma to the surface world in a tank as bait, and when Namor arrived, she smashed the tank to distract him. Namor was unable to save Dorma, and nearly went insane from grief. Not long after, Namor would reunite with his father, long thought dead; however, the reunion was brief and bittersweet, as Leonard McKenzie gave his life in battle against the villain Tiger Shark.
After being deposed from his throne and driven from Atlantis, Namor joined the Avengers. He was briefly married to Marrina, an aquatic-alien member of the Plodex as well as a member of Alpha Flight. Marrina had been abducted by Attuma at the time, and was holding her prisoner until Namor freed her with help from both the Avengers and Alpha Flight. Both he and Marrina established a small society of Atlanteans who were opposed to Attuma's tyranny in Namor's underwater grotto called Deluvia. Later, Marrina's genetic disposition to evil emerged and she was thought to have been killed battling the Avengers, but was she later revealed to be alive, but in a coma. Namor is still unaware of this fact.
Afterward, during the "Atlantis Attacks" storyline of 1989 Marvel annuals, rogue Atlantean elements declared war on the surface. Namor was presumed killed in the opening battle at the Panama Canal, but had actually survived, and after turning the tide of battle kept permitting the public to believe he was dead. During this time he rediscovered his cousin Namorita.
Months later in the South Pacific, father-daughter oceanographers Caleb and Carrie Alexander found a nearly mad Namor and nursed him to health. Caleb had long theorized that Namor's "rage" was due to his half-human half-Atlantean blood chemistry, and he equipped Namor with a monitor to warn when Namor had to seek either air or water. This allowed Namor to control his metabolism for the first time. Determined to continue to preserve the oceans and his people, but without revealing himself, Namor collected sunken treasures to finance his purchase of a corporation he renamed Oracle, Inc., using the Alexanders as proxy buyers. Under the guise of an international businessman and CEO of Oracle, he supported environmental causes. However, Namor was forced to reveal his survival when a terrorist bomb detonated on an Oracle submarine supertanker, threatening New York City. Later, Namor lost his ankle-wings when he released a mutagenic scrambler within the animated garbage-monster Sluj.
While continuing his business endeavors, Namor traveled to the dimension of K'un-L'un, where he found the hero Iron Fist, who had been presumed dead for many months. Returning to Earth and investigating the apparent invasion of Earth by the K'un L'un sentient plant race the H'ylthri, Namor was forced to fight their captive, the X-Men member Wolverine. The battle was interrupted by the sorcerer Master Khan, who wiped Namor's memory and dumped him in the American Midwest. Namor was "missing" for almost a year, and was known as "Rex," until Namorita tracked him down using a psychic link to him she had recently discovered. Namor did not regain his memory until sometime afterward, when he and the apparently resurrected Princess Fen were captured by Doctor Doom. The ship Doom had used to do so was then magically imprisoned in a bottle by Master Khan, who then assumed Namor's form and sold off much of Oracle's holdings. Namor soon broke the bottle and the spell, and killed Khan.
During the Acts of Vengeance, Namor was possessed by the super-villain Controller and sent after Captain America. Cap defeated Namor and released him from the Controller's mind-control.
Namor was then recalled to Atlantis to deal with border attacks by the "Faceless Ones". After Fen attempted to usurp the throne, it was revealed she was actually the witch-queen Artys Gran, who had stolen Fen's body. Namor was killed battling Gran's sorcerer-king husband Suma-Ket, but revived by Father Neptune, the deity worshiped by Atlanteans. In the process, Namor had his wings restored and was given the sacred golden armor of his ancestor, with which he defeated Suma-ket's forces. The real Fen, trapped in Gran's body, died defending her son from a final attack from Socus, the villains' servant. Namor eventually returned to both ruling Atlantis and running Oracle, Inc., but has remained generally out of the surface world. Oracle began funding the charitable super-group Heroes for Hire, with the team using an Oracle facility as its headquarters.
[edit] Illuminati
Namor is retconned as a member of the clandestine policy group the Illuminati, with Mister Fantastic, Iron Man, Doctor Strange, Professor X, and Black Bolt,[2] although he is hostile in his opinions. When his cousin Namorita is killed in the explosion and mass deaths that lead to the Superhero Registration Act, which Namor also opposes, he activates sleeper agents of the Atlantean royal guard to search for Nitro, the supervillain responsible. With the aid of Wolverine, he captures Nitro. In the climactic battle between the pro- and anti-registration heroes, Namor brings an army of Atlanteans to aid Captain America's forces. Later, Namor attends the private, Antarctic funeral of Captain America, promising the few others present that no one shall disturb the site.[3]
Namor was the sole member of Illuminati opposed to the plan to exile the Hulk off-world. Upon the Hulk's return, Namor's cousin Namora allied with Archangel and Hercules in an attempt to support the Hulk's plans.
[edit] Destruction of Atlantis
Namor discovered he had a long lost son, Kamar, who attempted to usurp the throne of Atlantis by forcing war with the United States. Due to these events, Namor was forced to evacuate the entire civilization of Atlantis; ordering his people to emigrate to the surface world to live within sleeper cells, leaving an overcharged Nitro to explode within the empty city-state, assassinating the then captured Kamar. After this, Namor formed an alliance with the supervillain and European monarch Doctor Doom, leading a contingent of Atlantean soldiers to be based in Doom's nation of Latveria.[4]
[edit] Secret Invasion
Namor was at the meeting of the Illuminati where it was revealed that the Elektra the New Avengers fought was really a Skrull. When it turned out that Black Bolt was really a Skrull all along, the Illuminati fought it with the battle ending with Namor killing it.
[edit] Powers and abilities
Because of his unusual genetic heritage, Namor is unique among both ordinary humans and Atlanteans; he is sometimes referred to as "Marvel's first mutant," because, while the majority of his observed superhuman powers come from the fact that he's a hybrid of Human and Atlantean DNA, his ability to fly can't be explained by either side. (Atlanteans are an off-shoot of "baseline" humanity.) Namor possesses a fully amphibious physiology suited for extreme undersea pressures, superhuman strength, speed, stamina, endurance and durability, flight, telepathic control over marine life, a radar sense, electrical powers, and slowed aging. Namor has the ability to survive underwater for indefinite periods, and specially developed vision which gives him the ability to see clearly in the murky depths of the ocean.
Bill Everett, in his first Sub-Mariner story, described the character as "an ultra-man of the deep [who] lives on land and in the sea, flies in the air, [and] has the strength of a thousand [surface] men". No other powers were mentioned. When the series was revived in 1954, Namor lost his ankle wings and with them the power of flight; they, and his full strength, were restored in Sub-Mariner #38 (Feb. 1955), in which Everett additionally wrote a flashback story, "Wings on His Feet", detailing their appearance on Namor at age 14. This story was twice reprinted during the Silver Age of Comic Books, in Marvel Super-Heroes #17 (Nov. 1968), and in the book Comix by Les Daniels.
After he was revived yet again in the 1960s by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, Namor demonstrated powers that had not been shown in earlier stories. In The Fantastic Four #9 (Dec. 1962), he states, "I have the powers of all the creatures who live beneath the sea! I can charge the very air with electricity — using the power of the electric eel!" In the same issue, "the radar sense of the cave fish from the lowest depths of the sea" enables him to sense the presence of Sue Storm when she is invisible. He uses "the power to surround himself with electricity in the manner of an electric eel" again in Strange Tales #107 (April 1963), and #125 (Oct. 1964); in the former he as well manifests the power to inflate his body like a puffer fish. These extra powers were ignored, however, when Marvel gave Namor his own feature beginning in Tales To Astonish #70 (Aug. 1965).
An editorial note in Marvel Tales #9 (July 1967), which reprinted the story from Strange Tales #107, stated explicitly that "nautical Namor has since lost his power to imitate the characteristics of fish...."
In all his incarnations, Namor possesses superhuman strength and, with the possible exceptions of Orka and Tyrak at their full sizes, is the strongest Atlantean ever known. The exact level of his strength is dependent upon his physical contact with water, in which he needn't be submerged. It has been shown as sufficient to effortlessly toss a water-filled ocean-liner, despite the underwater viscosity.[5] His strength diminishes slowly the longer he is out of contact with water, though an extended period on land does not result in his death, as it would for a typical Atlantean, and his power is retained in full as long as he keeps himself wet. Namor also possesses superhuman stamina and resistance to injury due to his hybrid nature. Namor's strength level is such that he has held his own in hand to hand combat with beings as powerful as the Hulk in the past.
Some stories have mentioned that Namor has gills for breathing underwater,[6] and artists such as Salvador LaRocca have drawn him with gill slits on either side of his neck.[7] In The Sub-Mariner #18-22 (1969-70), beings from outer space surgically closed Namor's gills for a time, leaving him with the ability to breathe air but unable to breathe underwater. Other sources have stated that his lungs contain oxygen diffusing membranes that allow him to breathe underwater.
Namor also possesses wings on his ankles to which he attributes his power of flight. On occasions when they have been lost or badly damaged, he has experienced a loss of flying ability. He could not fly as a child, and the power only manifested when the wings developed in adolescence.
Another ability unknown in the Golden Age and rarely displayed is his telepathic rapport with many forms of marine life. He also had a limited empathic rapport with Namorita.
Namor has greater longevity than a normal human being. He is well over 80 years old as he was born in 1920 in Marvel timeline, but has the appearance of a male in his prime. His identity as a pre-WWII super-hero is well-established, making him less subject to the sliding timescale of the Marvel universe.
Due to a unique aspect of his hybrid nature (not shared by Namorita), Namor is vulnerable to oxygen imbalance in his blood that trigger manic-depressive mood swings; he can prevent imbalances by regular immersion in water.
Namor was educated by the royal tutors of the Atlantean court, and speaks English, Atlantean, and Lemurian. He is a highly skilled business executive.
[edit] "Marvel's First Mutant"
Marvel has repeatedly identified Namor as "Marvel's first mutant", which is true with regard to the order in which the character appeared in print. However, he is not the first mutant in the fictional Marvel-universe timeline. A number of mutants predate him, including Apocalypse (born in the 30th century BC), Selene (active since at least 10,000 BC), Wolverine (late 19th century AD), Mystique and Destiny (dates of birth unknown, but known to have been active at the "Dawn of the 20th century"), the demonic mutant Azazel and a group of mutants known as the Externals.
In X-Men #6 (July 1964), X-Men leader Professor Xavier and antagonist Magneto each suspect Namor is a mutant. Later writers in the 1960s and 1970s described him as a hybrid, not a mutant, in order to distinguish him from the mutant X-Men.[8] When the series was revived in 1990, the series title logo carried the subtitle "Marvel's first and mightiest mutant!"
Namor is actually a hybrid of Atlantean and Human physiology, although he has principal characteristics that neither Atlanteans (Homo mermanus) nor Humans (Homo sapiens) possess. These include his ability to fly, his strength (which is several times that of an Atlantean), and his seldom seen (since the early 1960s) abilities of electricity generation, radar sense, ability to inflate his body to two or three times its size, and telepathic rapport with marine life.
In the first issue of the five part Illuminati mini series, after being experimented on by the Skrulls, it was confirmed that Namor is not only an Atlantean/human hybrid but also a mutant.
[edit] Personality
Namor's appearances prior to his first appearance in the Silver Age of comic books, in Fantastic Four #4, are depicted in Marvel-universe continuity as having occurred during Namor's youth. In 1940s and 1950s comics, Namor's speech, like many superheroes of the time, was laced with hip slang and topical idioms. He also used references to fish and other aquatic animals as expletives, in phrases such as "Suffering shad!" and "Great Pickled Penguins!" Roy Thomas, in his Saga of the Sub-Mariner, later explained that his use of slang was due to Namor using English slang as a way to separate himself from the Atlantean court formalities he loathed. He cracked jokes and exhibited a more carefree personality prior to his Silver Age reintroduction, after which he was depicted as a refined and dignified royal noble, albeit a short-tempered one. From his earliest modern-day appearance, Namor has shown romantic feelings toward Susan Richards, the superheroic Invisible Woman of the team the Fantastic Four.
[edit] Other versions
[edit] MC2
Namor is still active in the future timeline, and still uniting occasionally for battle alongside the Hulk and Doctor Strange as "Defenders". His appearance, while slightly older looking, is unchanged save for growing a goatee. In Fantastic Five (Vol 2) #1 it was revealed that he had held Doctor Doom captive for over ten years, after the mad monarch destroyed Atlantis. Doom subsequently escaped, and in #4, Namor is seen being tortured by him. He is freed after Reed Richards sacrifices himself to send both his and Doom's consciousnesses to the Crossroads of Infinty.
[edit] Ultimate Namor
In Ultimate Fantastic Four #24, the team is surveying the ruins of Atlantis and finds an estimated 9,000-year-old tomb containing the hibernating Namor — an imprisoned Atlantean criminal, considered the worst villain of his time. Reed Richards' translation of the Atlantean language reveals Namor's claims of kingship to be false.
His extreme intelligence allows him to become fluent in English in a matter of minutes merely by listening to S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and the Fantastic Four talking. Confronting the human, Namor withstands full-strength flares from the Human Torch and is strong enough to fight the Thing, withstand Sue Storm's force fields, and stretch Richards (Mr. Fantastic) to near-breaking. He destroys machinery designed to contain the Hulk. Though beaten by the Fantastic Four, he creates a tidal wave in the shape of Poseidon, threatening to destroy Manhattan with it. He is appeased when he demands, and receives, a meaningful kiss from Sue Storm. He then returns to the sea.
Ultimate Namor is a mutant Atlantean with amphibious physiology suited for high water pressure. He has vast super strength, durability, high speed swimming ability, flight, and water manipulation.
[edit] 1602
In the Marvel 1602 limited series 1602: Fantastick Four, Namor is reinvented as Numenor, Emperor of Bensaylum, a city beyond the edge of the world. When the characters arrive in his realm he is arguing with his cousin Rita (Namorita) about her reluctance to marry. She suggests that this is because he refuses to find a consort himself. Upon meeting the Four from the Fantastick, however, he is attracted to Susan Storm, and attempts to woo her, unsuccessfully. He later plots with Otto von Doom to win her, while "disposing" of Sir Richard Reed. However, Doom turns against him, and Numenor is stabbed with his own trident and dies.
Because Bensaylum is not underwater, its inhabitants are portrayed as basically human (although they retain the pointed ears).
[edit] Marvel Zombies
Namor can be seen as a zombie who is attacking Black Bolt. He is later killed in battle when the Marvel Zombies try to attack and devour the Silver Surfer who manages to kill the zombified Namor in the ensuing crossfire.
[edit] House of M
To follow up on Scarlet Witch's alter of reality, Namor was considered the "first mutant" in the reality that she created under Quicksilver's approval. He represented Atlantis when he was meeting with Magneto.
[edit] In other media
[edit] Film
On September 13, 2006, Universal Pictures announced that director Jonathan Mostow was attached to rewrite and direct Marvel Studios' Sub-Mariner. Kevin Misher is producing through his Misher Films, along with Marvel Studios. The screenplay had initially been written by David Self.[9][10]
[edit] Animated series
"The Sub-Mariner" was a segment of the 1960s animated series The Marvel Superheroes.
Sub-Mariner appeared in the Spider-Man episode "Wrath of the Sub-Mariner", attacking New York in response to pollution caused by The Kingpin.
He appeared in the "7 Little Superheroes" episode of Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, alongside Captain America, Shanna, and Dr. Strange. Another episode featured someone dressed as the Sub-Mariner.
Sub-Mariner had a guest-starring role in an episode of the 1994 Fantastic Four animated series, voiced by James Warwick.
He appeared in The Avengers: United They Stand episode "To Rule Atlantis" voiced by Raoul Trujillo. His portrait is seen in the conference room in "Avengers Assemble" Pt. 1.
He appears in the 2006 Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes episodes "Imperious Rex" and "Atlantis Attacks" voiced by Michael Adamthwaite.
[edit] Video games
He is a playable character in the 1991 Sega Spider-Man arcade game.
He has a cameo role in the Captain America and the Avengers arcade game.
He is a video game boss in the 1997 Fantastic Four game.
In the Spider-Man video game for the PlayStation, Dreamcast and Nintendo 64, Namor has a cameo in the game's "What If?" mode during the underwater Carnage battle.
Namor appears in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance voiced by Joe Thomas.
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Solo series and featuresMotion Picture Funnies Weekly unreleased promotional comic (1939)
Marvel Comics (Marvel Mystery Comics #2 onward) #1-91 (Oct. 1939 — April 1949)
Sub-Mariner Comics #1-42 (Spring 1941 — Oct. 1955)
Tales to Astonish #70-101 (Aug. 1965 — March 1968)
Iron Man and the Sub-Mariner one-shot (April, 1968)
Sub-Mariner#1-72 (May 1968 — Sept. 1974)
Sub-Mariner Annual #1-2 (1971 — 1972)
Tales to Astonish vol. 2, #1-14 (Dec. 1979 — Jan. 1981; reprints Sub-Mariner #1-14)
Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner #1-4 (Sept.-Dec. 1984)
The Saga of the Sub-Mariner #1-12 (Nov. 1988 — Oct. 1989)
Namor the Sub-Mariner #1-65 (April 1990 — May 1995)
Namor the Sub-Mariner Annual #1-4 (1991 — 1994)
Tales of the Marvels: Inner Demons one-shot (1996)
Incredible Hulk/Sub-Mariner Annual (1998)
Namor #1-12 (June 2003 — May 2004)
Marvel Masterworks: The Sub-Mariner (2004; reprints Marvel Comics #1, Daredevil #7, and Tales to Astonish #70-87)
Sub-Mariner vol. 2, #1-6 (August 2007-January 2008)
[edit] As team member
Marvel Feature #1-3 (Dec. 1971 — June 1972; as part of the Defenders)
The Defenders #1-16 (Aug. 1972 — Oct. 1974)
Invaders #1-41 (Aug. 1975 — Sept. 1979)
Invaders Annual #1 (1977)
Avengers (1964 series) #262-293 (Dec. 1985 — July 1988)
Invaders #1-4 (May—Aug. 1993)
Invaders (New Invaders #2 onward) #0-9 (Aug. 2004 — June 2005)
[edit] Footnotes
^ Peter Sanderson (1996). Marvel Universe. Virgin Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1-85227-646-0.
^ New Avengers: Illuminati Special
^ Fallen Son: The Death of Captain America
^ Sub-Mariner vol. 2, #1-6 (Aug. 2007 - Jan. 2008)
^ Hulk & Submariner '97
^ e.g., Namor #4-5 (1990); in the latter, Namor thinks "this New York river water burns my gills and scalds my lungs".
^ Namor vol. 2 (2002-2004)
^ As explained in the letters page of Sub-Mariner #31 (Nov. 1970)
^ Superherohype News (Sept. 13, 2006): "Jonathan Mostow to Helm Sub-Mariner", quoting Variety
^ ComingSoon.net (Sept. 14, 2006): "Jonathan Mostow to Helm Sub-Mariner", quoting Variety
[edit] References
Official Marvel.com: Namor
Marvel Directory: Namor
Don Markstein's Toonopedia: The Sub-Mariner
The Grand Comics Database
JC's Comic Collection Page: The Sub-Mariner
Comics 2 Film: Namor (Sub-Mariner)
Villains of Marvel Comics: The Grey Zone: Namor- character profile
Jim Hill Media: "A Tribute to Bill Everett, the Sub-Mariner's Father", by Monique Pryor
Heritage Galleries & Auctioneers: "Heritage to Auction Legendary 'Pay Copy' of Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1!" (press release, Sept. 16, 2005)
a site about the Golden Age Sub-Mariner
[edit] External links
Sub-Mariner at the Internet Movie Database
Covers of all Silver age issues of Sub-Mariner comics
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Namorita
by Jeanne Burch
Real name: Well, in a way it's Namora since she's a clone of her "mother," but she usually goes by Prentiss when she's on dry land. The name was adopted from her land-dwelling mentor (and former Namor flame) Betty Dean Prentiss; like most comic-book mentors (and most Namor flames, former or otherwise), Betty's eventual fate was to be murdered by a super-villain.
AKA: Nita. Little Barracuda (that's an affectionate term, believe it or not). Kymaera.
First appearance: Sub-Mariner 50
Favorite quote: "Why did Terrax scream like that? And why did that punk risk suicide by calling me 'babe' ?" (New Warriors 1. Battling for her life against a former herald of Galactus, Namorita still has time to ponder the deeper questions in the cosmos. The "punk," incidentally, was teammate Kid Nova).
Team affiliation: Namorita was forced by Byrrah, attempting to usurp the throne of Atlantis, to seek out and betray her kinsman Namor. Deciding after several adventures that the undersea life wasn't for her, she retreated to the surface world and tried to live as a normal air-breathing teenager. Somehow, she couldn't avoid getting tangled up with super-types like the Avengers and Ms. Marvel; giving in to the inevitable like so many I-wanna-be-normal heroines, she became a founding member of the New Warriors, where she eventually became involved with teammate Nova. As well as her continuing membership with the New Warriors, Nita had a long-lasting (and largely simultaneous) side-kick role in Namor's 1990s series. You had your choice of Namoritas while both series were running; you could pick up New Warriors and read about no-nonsense, blunt, kick-fin Namorita; or you could peruse Namor and see meek, deferential, thinks-Namor-kicks-too-much-fin Namorita. Two characters for the price of one! (Or one very schizophrenic character for the price of two magazines).
Powers: The clone of a cross-breed (or "halfling," as Atlanteans referred to the offspring born between surface dwellers and Homo mermaidus), Namorita inherited the Atlantean strength of her "mother," Namora, and like all Atlanteans, the ability to absorb massive doses of electricity. Further genetic engineering expressed Namora's latent mutant genes in her "offspring", which manifested in Namorita as ankle wings.
Favorite storyline: I'm not sure "favorite" is the word, but the disturbing tale presented in New Warriors 29-30 stands out. Traveling to Trans-Sabal to put an end to the bloody civil war, Nita and the New Warriors discover there are no correct choices, and why it is that other super-teams stay out of such conflicts.
Least favorite storyline: Oh, the whole "My Mother, Myself" clone business, which apparently came about because someone decided that offspring between humans and Atlanteans were sterile, which meant Namorita couldn't be Namora's daughter and an alternate origin had to be whipped up for Nita post-haste. Somewhere along the line Namorita's clone metabolism became unstable, turned her blue, gave her webbed hands and pupil-less eyes, and led her to adopt "Kymaera" as her new code name. Not learning from one cloning mistake, Marvel later went on to make a doozy with the whole Spider-clone mess...
Update: Namorita's still hanging out with the New Warriors, though her romance with teammate Nova was fatally wounded when Erik Larsen (writer of the mercifully short-lived third Nova series) had Nova callously neglect Nita in a time of dire need--though on the bright side, this same story got Nita back to her standard caucasian form. Since then, the mercifully short-lived second New Warriors series featured a brief romance between Namorita and the Human Torch (Johnny Storm), and also saw Namorita's evolving physiology develop new, additional features such as a self-camouflaging power (allowing near-invisibility) and the ability to secrete chemicals--including a highly corrosive acid and a paralyzing toxin--from her skin. -Old Sea Dog Sean
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"AQUAMAN" seemed too tame, "THE MAN FROM ATLANTIS" was strictly a knockoff! But "THE SUB-MARINER" was the real McCoy! (No, Schultz! Not the Show with Walter Brennan!), 2 March 2008
Author: John T. Ryan (redryan64@hotmail.com) from Chicago, Illinois, United States
Namor, a Royal Prince of Atlantis, yet a half-cast Man; having one foot in the surface World and the other set in the unseen Undersea realm of legend, has proved to be one of the most perplexing of the Great Comic Book Heroes. He is a sort of Jekyll & Hyde character; sometimes kindly, benevolent and helpful toward the surface land-lubber civilizations; other times being hateful, vindictive and downright dangerous toward the air-breathers.
Much better known for years under the name of The Sub-Mariner; the Royal Antlantian is among the oldest of the Comic Book Super Heroes. With a couple of "cease publications" in his On-News Stand History, he has proved himself to have great "Box Office" appeal and staying power in the Comics Magazine Business. Following his triumphant return to the 4 Color Main Stage in Fantastic Four # 4, Sub-Mariner has been a constant source of Comics' Acton; first as a traveling guest-star & bad boy, and then as the Star of his own feature; ultimately leading to his own Comic Mag.* As for his own Genesis, the Good Prince was created in early 1939 by Artist & Writer, Bill Everett. The Sub-Mariner feature was intended to be a part of a Give-away Premium Comic Book. It was designed for distribution via the Country's Movie Houses in a prototypical and tentatively named failed title of "Motion Pictures Funnies Weekly".
With the failure of "Motion Pictures Funnies Weekly" to get successfully off of the Launch Pad, the company, Funnies, Inc., a contractor sent Bill Everett, Prince Namor and the rights to the Sub-Mariner feature to Timely Publications; all for Ca$h Con$ideration$.
So The Sub-Mariner went to Timely (later changed name to Atlas and ultimately to our more familiar moniker of Marvel). There he made his debut, along with Carl Burgos' The Human Torch, in Marvel Comics # 1, dated October, 1939. With Batman having bowed in Detective Comics # 27, dated May, 1939 five months earlier; that makes our Prince Namor about 5 months younger, hence the 4th oldest major Super-Hero Character around; behind Superman, Captain Marvel and Batman.** As previously stated above; after an absence of some 10 years or so, the Marvel Comics creative team of Stan Lee & Jack Kirby brought The Sub-Mariner back to the comics pages. Mr. Lee used that tongue-in-cheek humorous approach that had become identified with the Marvel method; but is missing in all but the opening and closing songs of the Marvel Show.*** And that would be that in Fantastic Four # 4, dated May, 1962, the Super Foursome found Sub-Mariner in a Bowery dive, living as Tramp/Vagrant/Bum/Poor, Unfortunate Homeless Person! The Human Torch/Johnny Storm correctly reasoned that returning him to the Atlantic Ocean would restore his memory.
Official'S TECHNICAL TIME OUT! As far as Sub-Mariner goes, there is a widespread sort of collective propensity to pronounce Sub-Mariner as suhb-mare-een-er, instead of the proper suhb-mare-in-er. Whereas the former may be an appropriate term for the brave men and women of our United States Navy's "Silent Service" or those serving on Submarines; the Creator, Mr. Bill Everett and the Publisher, Timely/Atlas/Marvel has always maintained that the latter was the proper pronunciation.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN AND CHILDREN OF ALL AGES, NOW FOR THE MAIN EVENT OF THE EVENING, we present the Sub-Mariner made-for-TV Cartoons! Someone once said that Chester Gould's DICK TRACY was the "best plotted and worst drawn adventure Comic Strip in the Newspapers!" So too, all of the components of the "MARVEL SUPER HEROES" TV Show (Famous Studios/Grantray-Lawrence/Marvel, 1966) have a somewhat similar such of a distinction. "THE SUB-MARINER" had perhaps as beautiful artwork as any; yet displayed "Clutch Cargo-like" animation as its accompaniment.
Given that its animation is not on par with any FANTASIA or the likes, the production crew compensated by making use of great incidental music & sound effects and with the talents of fine voice actors. John Vernon brought his rich tones to the show as Prince Namor, himself! As for the stories used in the series, they were direct and nearly flawless transference from printed page to celluloid comic book. They were that close and with original artwork done by the likes of Mr. Everett and Gene Colan, were no more than 2-3 years of age. They were quite contemporary.
"THE SUB-MARINER", as well as the 4 other series within the umbrella series of "THE MARVEL SUPERHEROES" is unique, memorable and high quality that holds up very well today; and would do well to be in one's video library, filed under "S" for , well, you know! Oh, yeah and by the way; does anyone out there realize that "Namor" is "Roman" spelled backwards! So does this make "Old Fish Head" Polish or Italian? NOTE: * As Jules Pfeiffer stated in his breakthrough book, THE GREAT COMIC BOOK HEROES (1965), "With the U.S. entering the War, Sub-Mariner went from hating all humans to hating Nazis, Imperial Japanese and Fascist Italians." NOTE: ** We can only determine which character is older by the date of his first appearance & publication. Though a Feature may be around and completed, but lacking a publisher for several years even, we must consider that as part of the gestation period.
NOTE: *** Whereas the Marvel prided itself in its "Don't Take Ourselves Too Seriously" tongue-in-cheek humor, the episodes of "THE MARVEL SUPERHEROES" seemed to be given a dead serious treatment; certainly a far cry from ABC's "BATMAN" (Greenway Productions/20th Century-Fox, 1966-68) with its "Camp" approach.
NAMOR: THE SUB-MARINER
Release Date: TBD
Country: USA
Distribution: Universal Pictures
Production: Marvel Entertainment, Universal Pictures
Director(s): Not Yet Announced
SUB-MARINER follows the adventures of the troubled Prince Namor, a half-man/half-amphibian creature from Atlantis.
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The latest Sub-Mariner rumors.
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August 08, 2003 - According to The Matt Damon Column, BBC 1 Radio reported that the Oscar-winner is in the running to play the title role in Universal's big-screen version of The Sub-Mariner. The project is based on the Marvel Comics character and will be written and directed by David Self (Road to Perdition) for Marvel Studios and Misher Films (The Scorpion King).
Matt Damon
As the MDC wisely points out, though, "Matt's previously stated that he wouldn't play a superhero or a comic book character, so this is definitely in the rumor file only."
Perhaps Damon's buddy Ben Affleck – a.k.a. Daredevil – talked him into it?
The Hollywood Reporter reminds us that "Sub-Mariner follows the adventures of Prince Namor, a half-man/half-amphibian creature from Atlantis. A troubled rebel with a short temper, he has helped the human race and fought against it when humankind polluted his underwater kingdom with waste."
Matt Damon is currently filming Brothers Grimm and will segue to The Bourne Supremacy. No word yet on when The Sub-Mariner will film.
Thanks to Ain't It Cool News for the heads-up.
-- Stax
-Universal
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