Our first post under the two-a-week schedule is from Namora #1, a Marvel Comic from 1948. Two of the three stories from the issue are by Bill Everett.
I don’t know if anyone else has noticed one of Namora’s superpowers. It is to come out the water with her hair looking dry and styled.
Namora did not last long in the '40s; after three issues of her own title, and some appearances elsewhere, she disappeared until the '50s revival of Sub-Mariner.
This story has some Asian characters that some may find offensive. I have decided to show it, anyway, with this heads-up on racial caricatures.
Your cat knows that you are made of meat.
ReplyDeleteHow was it that Namora had the strength to pull a ship to shore in a storm, yet could be knocked back as she was by Paul West and later punched and wrestled to defeat by just West and two thugs? (I also have my doubts about her leaving Allen tied-up until she'd apprehended West and returned to the ship.)
The art is nice enough, but not Everett's slickest work from the late '40s.
But where do you find this fabulous old comics?
ReplyDeleteI half-expected Triangle-Headed Bad Guy to rip off his mustache and turn out to be Namor undercover. Maybe he was a pale-faced relative of Sinestro exiled to Earth instead...
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