American Update: Imperius Rex! Sub-Mariner Issues Between #51 and the final, #72
*Marvel: One of our favourite Marvel characters here at 30th C. is Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner, a misunderstood anti-hero who, at his finest, operates against a background of Machiavellian intrigue in his Atlantean kingdom – with occasional time-outs for a regal strop against the surface world! His second solo series, which launched in 1968, is refreshed this week with 15+ issues new to our listings, commencing with #51 and ending with #72, the final issue of that run. Along the way, Namor meets his fellow Golden Age Bill Everett creation, the goddess Venus, gets what’s been unfairly derided as his ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ costume (It’s really not that bad a design…) and fights against or alongside (among others), Sunfire, the Sea Devils (pardon?), Thor, Virago, Dr. Hydro, the Fantastic Four, Triton, Spider-Man and the sinister Slime-Thing! This selection includes some of the final work by Golden Age legend Bill Everett, Subby’s creator, before his untimely death in 1974.