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motion picture funnies weekly vol 1: (1939 - 1939) (published by first funnies, inc. )
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motion picture funnies weekly # 1 (first funnies, inc. , 1939) cgc fn - 5. 5 slightly brittle pages... .
motion picture funnies weekly # 1 (first funnies, inc. , 1939) cgc apparent vg 4. 0 moderate (p) brittle pages... .
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motion picture funnies weekly no. 1 (1939), art by fred schwab
principal subsidiaries: marvel comics, inc. ; fleer corporation; toy biz, inc. (46 percent); dubble bubble confectionery products .
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from marvel mystery comics 8 - 10, copyright 1940 by timely publications, inc .
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). funnies, inc. was formed from former staff of centaur who had left their old jobs with the dreams of foudning their own publishing company. lacking the finances to do this, they fell back to the option of creating stories for others to own and publish. since the existing four comic companies already had creative teams producing work for them to publish, funnies, inc needed to find someone new .
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in 1939, with the emerging medium of comic books proving hugely popular, and the first superheroes setting the trend, goodman contracted with newly formed comic - book
packager
, funnies, inc. to supply material .
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“motion picture funnies weekly” number 1 debuted in april 1939… and was quickly shelved. however, when pulp novel publisher martin goodman wanted to expand into comics, he farmed out the content - making to funnies, inc. expanding his black and white story for a 12 - page, color format, everett’s “here is the sub - mariner! ” (shortened to “the sub - mariner”) once again saw print, in “marvel comics” number 1 (oct. 1939) .
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for my
real life funnies
comic strips, i wandered the streets of new york city in search of life on the wing — telling people’s stories in their own words, sketching them in their natural habitats .
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bill everett' s hurricane was taken from the hardback reprint volume of marvel comics 1. copyright 1990 by marvel entertainment group, inc. i do not know the original source although it may have actually been marvel comics 1 .
the original cover rough by everett survived in the files of funnies, inc. , along with the aforementioned copies of motion picture funnies weekly, various cover proofs and other souvenirs of those early days. we were able to obtain a copy of that rough, from which dean motter constructed a finished cover for this volume of the index. a reproduction of the original piece appears in full color on the back cover. the result of motter' s efforts is a cover strikingly different from the others in the series which we have featured to date, one which accurately captures the feel of those vintage timely comics. motter often had occasion to comment on the strangeness of the experience of working from art nearly forty years old by an artist no longer living .
behind the scenes - hey! that’s not funny! martin goodman decided to try and do comic books without the use of funnies inc. he got their top creators to work directly for him and also hired others like joe simon and jack kirby. lloyd jacquet said martin eventually made his pipsqueak cousin in law the editor and cut his shop out. jacquet became very bitter towards martin goodman as a result. oh, and as for the pipsqueaks name? stanley lieber, better known as stan lee .
similarly, when superman leapt into the american consciousness in a single bound in 1938, opportunists leapt on the craze, including movie theaters, looking to attract young customers with comic book giveaways. everett was working for funnies, inc. at the time, which was packaging such a project. at 22 years of age, the artist and writer – resigned to toiling in the little respected comic book industry after his cockiness cost him lucrative newspaper and magazine work – was tasked with creating an 8 - page “super - hero” story .
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while i was studying, i worked in a large advertising agency, but i wasn' t satisfied. i wanted to do newspaper work, so i landed a job on the new york herald tribune, after doing a turn on the art staff of the boston traveller. later i was the art director of a national magazine, but there my flare for cartooning was somewhat stifled, so i free lanced around until i broke into this field, as the art editor of funnies, inc. , the outfit that creates the features that appear in marvel comics .
the most valuable marvel title is also the third most valuable comic book in the world, behind the first appearance of superman in action comics # 1 and the first appearance of batman in detective comics # 27. as a direct result of those characters’ success, in october of 1939, goodman put out 80, 000 copies of his, and timely comics’, first comic effort, which was filled with content purchased from funnies, inc. marvel comics # 1 was an instant hit, selling out its initial printing and meriting a second printing of 800, 000 copies, which also sold out .
that initial comic, cover - dated october 1939, quickly sold out 80, 000 copies, prompting goodman to produce a second printing, cover - dated november 1939 and identical except for a black bar in the inside - front - cover indicia over the october date, and the november date added at the end. that sold approximately 800, 000 copies. [ 1 ] with a hit on his hands, goodman began assembling an in - house staff, hiring funnies, inc. writer - artist joe simon as editor. simon brought along his collaborator, artist jack kirby, followed by artist syd shores .
public company incorporated: 1939 as timely publications; 1988 as toy biz inc. employees: 630 sales: $ 390. 5 million (2005) stock exchanges: new york ticker symbol: mvl naic: 53311 lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets (except copyrighted works); 51113 book publishers
founding fathers funnies originally appeared as short stories in the back of bagge' s apocalypse nerd. those shorts have all been collected here in this 86 page collection along with some new stories and bagge' s notes on these figures. this is a brisk little collection as that 86 pages also includes 5 pages of the aforementioned notes .
americas founding fathers were brilliant, brave, forward thinking... and ridiculous, at least in the eyes of cartoonist and history buff peter bagge! collecting all founding fathers funnies cartoons from apocalypse nerd and dark horse presents, this volume also delivers several brand - new stories and helpful biographical information on the colorful revolutionaries bagge respectfully skewers !
in 1994, marvel acquired the comic book distributor heroes world to use as its own exclusive distributor. as the industry’s other major publishers made exclusive distribution deals with other companies, the ripple effect resulted in the survival of only one other major distributor in north america, diamond comic distributors inc. .
puzzle fun
is very similar to
uncle joe' s funnies
, which was published by centaur in 1938. it' s a collection of cartoons (many by paul gustavson), riddles, crosswords, and various puzzles. it also has the same strange dimensions, being midway between a digest and comic book in size .
motion picture funnies weekly # 1 (first funnies, inc. , 1939) cgc fn - 5. 5 slightly brittle pages. this historical rarity is noted as the first published appearance of bill everett' s sub - mariner feature. the first eight pages of the story were presented, with a
to be continued
caption in a box found on the last page; when the story was featured again a few months later in marvel comics # 1, that box was left blank, and the story continued for four more pages. designed as a theater giveaway, it never received wide distribution, and was thought to be used only under test circumstances. only a few copies of this book have surfaced over the years, with only six currently listed by cgc; this is one of only four unrestored copies on that list. overstreet 2008 fn 6. 0 value = $ 11, 000. cgc census 1 / 09: 1 in 5. 5, 2 higher .
lloyd jacquet was an editor for wheeler - nicholson’s national allied publications and later centaur publications. in 1939 he resigned from the company and with jack binder started comic
shop
with a crew of artists that worked for centaur. they called this shop funnies inc. among the artists were art director bill everett, carl burgos, paul gustavson, tom dixon, raymond gill, al anders, and ben thompson. the
shop
made comics like a factory made cars. artists took turns doing layouts, pencils on the main figures, pencils on secondary figures, inks on the main figures, inks on secondary figures, then they would be lettered with the script .
centaur lasted from 1938 until 1940, with the flagship titles being amazing man, amazing mystery funnies, and funny pages. however, the indicia of amf 1 (8 / 38) lists
centaur publications, inc
as the publisher, and the indicia of a - man (9 / 39) lists
comic corporation of america
as the publisher. (for reference sake, funny pages switched from ultem to centaur pubs with v2 n6 in 3 / 38). the arrow was the only centaur title to last beyond the demise of centaur and with issue 3 the publisher switched from centaur to cca (which, incidentally, may explain why # 3 is scarcer) .
that’s because this graphic narrative of our country’s birth, titled
taxes, the tea party, and those revolting rebels: a history in comics of the american revolution
, is illustrated by stan mack. and stan is one of the founding fathers of contemporary cartoon reportage, having created stan mack' s real life funnies for the village voice back in the mid - 1970s .
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toy designer avi arad was yet another element of toy biz' s success. over the course of his 20 - year career, arad had a hand in the creation of over 160 toys for such major manufacturers as mattel inc. , hasbro, inc. , tyco toys, inc. , nintendo, and sega. upon joining toy biz on a part - time basis in 1993, arad received a 10 percent stake in the company in addition to his salary. his 22 - person product development staff accounted for about 20 percent of toy biz' s total employment. as executive producer of animated television programs for marvel and the creator of toys for toy biz, he personally represented the intersection of marvel and toy biz' s interests. arad could, for example, coordinate the launch of characters on television screens and toy store shelves. he specialized in action figures and earned a reputation for combining materials in unique ways. arad' s creativity wasn' t limited to cartoons and action figures; his resume included baby bubbles and roller blade baby .
with over 5, 000 proprietary characters in its arsenal, marvel entertainment, inc. , is one of the world' s leading character - based entertainment companies. marvel is involved in the creation of feature films, dvd / home videos, video games, and television shows. its characters are also licensed for use in apparel, toys, collectibles, and snack foods. in addition, marvel' s comic book operations command nearly 50 percent of the comic book market. falling sales and profits forced marvel to file for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 1996. toy biz inc. acquired the company in 1998 and adopted the marvel enterprises name. the company' s name was changed to marvel entertainment in 2005 .
still, history isn’t the same as real life on the streets of new york, which gets up in your face and hassles you. it sits in 2 - d on the page. but it was once real life, as raw, gutsy, and goofy as any of my
real life funnies .
it’s just been freeze - dried. i found i could add water and stir vigorously and it came to life .
marvel comics is an american comic book line published by marvel entertainment, inc. affectionately called the house of ideas by the fan press, marvel’s best - known comics titles include fantastic four, the amazing spider - man, the incredible hulk, iron man, daredevil, thor, captain america, and x - men. most of marvel’s fictional characters reside in the marvel universe .
the book featured a two - page auto racing story called burning rubber, and stories about ka - zar the great, and the masked raider. but more importantly, the title featured the first appearance of carl burgos’ android superhero, human torch, and paul gustavson' s detective who dressed like a superhero, the angel. the book also expanded by four pages the original eight - page sub - mariner story introduced in motion picture funnies weekly .
if you can' t get into the show, i' m glad to report picking up a hamilton feeling from founding father funnies by peter bagge, a $ 15 collection released last week by dark horse comics. a beloved veteran indie cartoonist, bagge is mostly known for illustrating the sex lives of teenagers — so the founders who were reliable with the ladies (burr, franklin, hamilton, jefferson) aren' t too much of a stretch .
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in december 1997, bankruptcy courts appointed a trustee to oversee marvel. icahn was unsuccessful in his attempts to restructure the company and eventually agreed to a reorganization plan in which marvel would be acquired by toy biz. icahn received stock in the new company as well as a $ 3. 5 million cash payment. marvel emerged from bankruptcy in october 1998 and toy biz changed its name to marvel enterprises inc .
toy biz entered what was expected to be the toy industry' s second - fastest growing segment, electronic learning aids (ela), in 1996. the toy company signed a licensing agreement with apple computer that year to produce a line of electronic and soft toys with the apple name and logo. toy biz hoped to benefit from apple' s strong presence in educational computers, and apple hoped that an association with play would cement its position in the hearts and minds of young consumers and future computer buyers. in addition, toy biz augmented its position in the industry through the 1995 acquisition of two toy companies, spectra star, inc. and quest aerospace education, inc. spectra star specialized in kites and yo - yos, while quest made small model rockets. toy biz expected acquisitions such as these to fuel continued growth in the late 1990s .
in september 1992, marvel purchased the fleer corporation, a trading card company, for $ 265 million. in the spring of 1993, marvel also invested $ 7 million to buy 46 percent of toy biz, inc. , a new york - based toy manufacturer. the company then hired a top toy designer to make successful action hero toys out of familiar marvel figures. these characters demonstrated booming popularity in the early 1990s .
in september, 1992, marvel purchased the fleer corporation, a trading card company, for $ 265 million. in the spring of 1993, marvel also invested $ 7 million to buy 46 percent of toy biz, inc. , a new york - based toy manufacturer. the company then hired a top toy designer to make successful action hero toys out of familiar marvel figures. these characters demonstrated booming popularity in the early 1990s .
his first effort, marvel comics # 1 (oct. 1939), featured the first appearances of writer - artist carl burgos' superhero, the human torch, and paul gustavson' s costumed detective the angel. as well, it contained the first generally available appearance of bill everett' s mutant / anti - hero namor the sub - mariner, created for the unpublished movie - theater giveaway comic, motion picture funnies weekly earlier that year, with the eight - page original story now expanded by four pages .
famous faces & funnies got our unique name as we used to deal in autographs as well as comic books in our first two years. after a while, the comics overpowered the autographs, but we still kept our odd name. fff was a growing business that quickly grew into a separate store on aurora road in a short time. soon after, we outgrew that small shop after we acquired the subscription service and customer base from former rival stargate comics and bought out twin distribution. we' ve since bought out several other stores and have amassed a giant back issue collection .
i am a 30, 000 year old reincarnated being who materializes once every 5000 years in a las vegas hotel suite. my greatest goal in my eternal life is to spend 6 months on a small tropical island with mary matalin doing nothing but pitching a dummie funnies book (with cd - rom insert) deal with her. if you happen to be mary matalin, please contact me at: pjcomix @ urltoken. if you are anybody else, you can contact me there too. remember, if you are a book publisher, please feel free to embarrass me with an extravagant book advance .
the american revolution has never been funnier! america' s founding fathers were brilliant, brave, forward - thinking... and ridiculous, at least in the eyes of cartoonist and history buff peter bagge !
i find myself laughing out loud whenever i read of their foibles, especially when their oversized egos clashed ,
says the author. this collection of short vignettes features some of our country' s best - known historical figures (along with several lesser - known players) and includes all founding fathers funnies cartoons from apocalypse nerd and dark horse presents. this hardcover also features several brand new stories and additional biographical information !
trained as an accountant, ahern had previously worked to bring toymaker coleco industries inc. out of bankruptcy. ahern' s bottom - line focus was reflected in toy biz' s low overhead. the company owned no real property, instead leasing a modest headquarters in new york city and an arizona warehouse. it also limited costs by outsourcing most manufacturing to china and concentrating most of its sales efforts on mass merchandisers. this low overhead structure gave toy biz a remarkably low employee - to - sales ratio, generating nearly $ 2 million in annual revenues for each employee in the mid - 1990s .
this success attracted the attention of members of the financial industry. in 1986, marvel was sold to new world pictures, a movie company that wanted the publisher' s stable of characters and animation studio, for $ 46 million. this move touched off a series of corporate transformations for the company. in november, 1988, new world announced that a series of losses had caused it to sell marvel to the andrews group, inc. , for $ 82. 5 million. the andrews group was a subsidiary of a holding company called the mcandrews & forbes group, which was owned largely by investor ronald perelman .
the marvel entertainment group, inc. , is the largest american publisher of comic books. the company got its start during the depression and grew rapidly during the 1930s and 1940s when comic books were in their heyday. its industry suffered a setback in the 1950s, but grew stronger in the 1960s as a new crop of popular characters appealed to the children of the baby boom. after another slump in the 1970s, marvel rebounded in the 1980s, growing even larger and more popular. the company began to diversify in the 1990s, as it sought to reap full value from its stable of enduring and beloved superheroes through licensing arrangements and other media outlets .
the american revolution has never been funnier! america' s founding fathers were brilliant, brave, forward - thinking... and ridiculous, at least in the eyes of cartoonist and history buff peter bagge !
i find myself laughing out loud whenever i read of their foibles, especially when their oversized egos clashed ,
says the author. this collection of short vignettes features some of our country' s best - known historical figures (along with several lesser - known players) and includes all founding fathers funnies cartoons from apocalypse nerd and dark horse presents. this hardcover also features several brand new stories and additional biographical information !
i can count on one hand the number of comic artists whose work is as strong... maybe on two or three fingers .
- robert crumb
peter bagge is one of the best comic storytellers ever .
- vice
peter bagge remains one of those premiere old - school 80s / 90s alt - cartoonists who built their careers one corrosively funny page at a time .
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the history of toy biz can be traced to chantex inc. , a canadian company created in the late 19th century. sol zuckerman, the founder' s grandson, inherited the business in 1961, when it was earning $ 160, 000 in sales. the restless 21 - year - old maintained the family firm as a core interest, bringing its sales to nearly $ 4. 5 million by 1980. in the meantime, he devoted more of his concentration to the acquisition and operation of several montreal nightclubs and toyed with the idea of running for public office. zuckerman' s tony discotheques were frequented by celebrities, and he earned a reputation as a fast - talking, fast - moving wheeler - dealer. zuckerman beat a hasty retreat from the disco scene in 1980, however, after witnessing the assassination of a colleague by letter bomb. in the 1980s, he revisited the infants' and children' s goods business that had bored him in years past .
the combination of strict cost controls, an advantageous licensing agreement, and top talent helped toy biz achieve the industry' s fattest profit margins. its 24 percent margin topped giant mattel' s profit ratio by over one - fifth in 1995. furthermore, the toy biz / marvel confederation opened the door to a myriad of other synergistic business opportunities. marvel entertainment was just one segment of ronald o. perelman' s diverse empire, a group that had been launched in 1978 with a $ 1. 9 million bank loan and had by the early 1990s grown to include revlon inc. , coleman worldwide corporation, consolidated cigar corporation, new world communications group, and first nationwide bank, among others. perelman, who was appointed board chairman of toy biz in 1995, sought to expand cooperation among his business interests. toy biz soon held licenses of a more typical short - term nature for other brands in the perelman family. the toy company designed and distributed revlon fashion dolls and coleman toy camping equipment, for example .
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the deep six project is dedicated to the memory of bill everett, 1917 - 1973. may the ancient mariner watch over you now and for all time .
it was raining pretty hard when we reached bill everett' s apartment - studio, a dramatic background for the story we hoped to get .
come on in ,
bill said beaming .
i was hoping someone would drop in on me tonight .
true to style, he made us feel right at home .
we' ve come to ask you to tell us something about yourself, and how you started to write about the sub - mariner. do you mind ?
well ,
bill said ,
i was born in newton, massachusetts, and i' m still young enough to be in that first draft - if and when. when i was very young my folks went out to arizona. we stayed there until after i finished high school
but, my folks decided to go back to massachusetts, and i decided to go back to school. i went to the vesper george art school where i made up my mind that i would make art a career .
that' s another story. you see, when we returned to the east coast, i found just as much adventure as i did in the west. what i mean is, i got myself a job on a seagoing tramp that went from maine to florida .
on one run, when we were still a day out of florida, one of those native floridian hurricanes hit us broadsides. it shook that old tub like it was a toy. i happened to be at the wheel and the full force of the storm spun it like a top. one of the bigger men took over for the minute, for there was another job that had to be done. the wireless antenna had been blown down and it meant a climb up the slippery rope stays to the top of the mast. i was elected .
i climbed into my oilskins and started up. the wind cut my face and hands, and i had all i could do to hold on. the rigging was wet and slippery. my job was to carry that loose wire up and tie it back to the mast. well, i finally reached the top and stood upright in the crosstrees. the wind lashed my oils and they cracked like thunder. suddenly, after i had done my job, i felt myself being swept off my perch into thin air !
i grabbed, and luckily caught the end of a rope. i swung there, half dazed for a moment, only to realize that my hand was slowly slipping off the wet hemp. below i could see the washed deck glaring up at me. the cold wind had numbed my spirit, and a strange feeling came over me. i felt i was not alone .
something seemed to take hold of me and lift me bodily, back onto the crosstrees. i lay there for a moment, and when i finally got a grip on myself, i looked up to see who, or what, had helped me .
we couldn' t help but notice the sincere look in bill' s eyes as he spoke .
whew, that was a corker, bill. but where does the sub - mariner come in ?
he smiled that slow smile of his and said ,
who knows? to me it was he who helped me that night .
for the duration of that trip i was constantly reminded of coleridge' s ancient mariner, the poem that tells about the supernatural powers of the sea. i suppose that had some bearing on my title, sub - mariner .
to me, i owe my life to that something - whether wind, a strong subconscious motion, or a supernatural being. but i shall always think of it as my friend... the sub - mariner .
authors note: this biography, a form of fan fiction, will appear in chapters assuming i ever 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. chapters 1 & 2, entitled a cold slap in the face and guns in the distance, are currently in re - development and are taking longer than i had initially intended. it is my hope that i' ll be able to get them scraped out of my head and spooned onto a page before too long but i certainly make no guarantees. it has always been my intention to write something that is true to all of the sub - mariner' s history, a task that is proving to be quite challenging especially now that my original ideas, and the first two chapters mentioned above, need some rethinking to incorporate the storylines from the more recent series into the mix. i have some definite ideas on how to proceed with the updated sections and hope to have them ready soon. be patient. i certainly have not forgotten! jc
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 ] .
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 ] .
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 ] .
the wings on namor' s ankles manifest for the first time saving him from a catastrophic fall from an ice cliff. [ 8 ] .
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 .
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 ] .
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 ] .
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 ] .
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 ] .
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 .
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 ] .
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 ] .
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 ] .
i met your father in the year 1920, when a great ship, the oracle, came from america on a scientific expedition. your father, commander leonard mckenzie, was the captain, and they made their base on an ice - floe directly above our city. during the weeks that followed, we were tormented with bombardments of high explosives - our castles were demolished - our husbands, wives and even children, were killed in droves. the white earth - men were blasting us out of existence with there infernal' scientific investigations'. soon many more ships arrived, and finally, in desperation, our elders commanded an army be formed, and i, as most nearly resembling the female of the white race, was invested as a spy. and so it was, that on that very same night, i was found hunched and shivering in a ship' s hold, just aft of the main mast. not realizing what i was or why i was there, and thinking me one of their own race, they hurried me to the commander who, good man that he was, decided i was insufficiently clad for that climate. after giving me heavy clothes, in which i nearly suffocated, they fed me some of there food. what it was i don' t know but it made me violently ill. the commander took pity on me and although i could not understand his language tried to comfort me with words. within a very short time we became fast friends and i began to learn their strange tounge. they could never understand though how i could swim in the extremely cold water. of course i had to for we sub - mariner' s cannot live out of water for longer than five hours at a stretch, and many of us cannot live even that long. well as time went on, the commander and i fell in love and were married by their own ritual. and all the while i was giving secret information back to our people .
from marvel comics index, volume 1 number 7b, copyright 1978 by marvel comics group .
this issue contains a detailed five page history of the marvel universe as it relates to the race of sub - mariner' s and the birth of namor mckenzie .
note: this was written in 1978 and is reproduced here without modification or updating .
prince namor i of atlantis, emperor of the deep, lord of the seven seas and supreme commander of the undersea legions, is far and away marvel' s most durable character. he is the only marvel character to have an unbroken publishing history extending back to (and actually before) marvel' s first comic book, and only one of two (captain america is the other) golden age marvel characters to have survived into the present era. thus it is very appropriate to discuss at some length the origins of sub - mariner as a published character as well as his origins in the fictional reality of the marvel universe .
evidently only a portion of the print run was bound at first, perhaps to be distributed to a small number of key outlets to test sales. once the sales figures were in (and they must have been good, or at least, promising), the remainder of the print run was re - dated november 1939 (by overprinting both outside and inside front covers), bound and sent to the newsstands. by far the larger number of surviving copies are november issues .
goodman' s faith in the angel as a cover attraction over the sub - mariner turned out to have been slightly misplaced. when the last timely comic folded, in 1955, it was sub - mariner who held the record for largest number of published stories, in a dozen different titles, beating both captain america and the human torch by a hair. and that last timely comic was the 42nd and last issue of sub - mariner comics. angel, on the other hand, never even managed to support his own title, though he did have a respectable run in the pages of marvel mystery comics .
the first issue of sub - mariner' s own comic appeared dated spring 1941, about half a year after the human torch was given his own title, and about the same time that timely brought out captain america. coincidentally, 40 pages of sub - mariner stories were backed by 20 pages of the angel in each of the early issues of sub - mariner comics; later, as the books diminished in size, angel was replaced by the human torch, the young allies, the blonde phantom and captain america. issue # 32, dated june 1949, was the last to carry sub - mariner, or any superheroes. issue # 33, august 1949, was re - titled best love - which must have shocked some subscribers. best love lasted only until issue # 36, april 1950 .
when marvel revived some of its golden age heroes in the middle 1950s, sub - mariner' s own title was reinstated, and many of the stories were drawn by his originator bill everett. ten more issues - far more than any of the other revived titles - of sub - mariner comics were published, beginning where it left off at # 33, april 1954, and running through # 42, october 1955. thereafter, sub - mariner did not appear in any comics until the fantastic four # 4, may 1962; that event marked his debut in the modern marvel universe. all 42 issues of sub - mariner comics are featured in our golden age sub - mariner cover gallery, the first time all the issues have been gathered together for publication in one display .
besides his own 42 issues, sub - mariner stories were told in the first 91 issues of marvel mystery comics, backed up the human torch in human torch comics # 1 - 33, 36 - 38, appeared in all the issues of all winners comics (# 1 - 19, 21 and second series # 1), in all select comics # 1 - 5, 10 and its successor blonde phantom comics # 13 - 15, 17 - 22, in daring comics # 9 - 12, captain america comics # 20, 68 and 70, young men # 24 - 28, men' s adventures # 27, 28, namora comics # 1 - 3 and kid komics # 4, for a total of 292 golden age stories (as counted by mike nolan in his handy timely comic index, now long out of print) .
a very strange juvenile incarnation of sub - mariner, named subbie, origin unknown, was featured in two stories in kid komics # 1 and 2. subbie was a kid with all the powers of the adult sub - mariner (sans the ability to fly), whose stories hint of a connection with namor, which is never explained. he piloted a junior pt boat and generally raised hell with the nazis in both episodes, one of timely' s forgotten short run heroes .
sub - mariner' s origin has been told several times: twice in the golden age (in marvel comics # 1 and sub - mariner comics # 32), once in the 1950s (in sub - mariner comics # 33) and several times in modern marvel comics. in addition, we have a wealth of information available about his childhood, due mainly to a series of young sub - mariner stories in his 1950s issues. some of the stories contradict one another, but many add details, which enrich the overall picture. the fact remains that no definitive version of namor' s origin, told as a single, coherent narrative, exists. the account we give below represents a synthesis of the various bits and pieces we have been given to date. namor' s origin, including the beginnings of the undersea race of sub - mariners and extending through modern times, is a stunning example of the sweep and grandeur of the marvel universe at its most intricate .
the center of serpent power was located on the former continent of lemuria, while the center of human civilization was in attilan, a name which was later corrupted to atlantis. there were thousands of wars between the two ancient super - powers, both scientific and mystic, which resulted in vast upheavals of the earth' s crust and great destruction. the last, and greatest, battle was chronicled in sub - mariner # 62, 63 (note: we call the golden age series of sub - mariner comics sub - mariner comics; the modern series we call simply sub - mariner). its outcome was the inundation of both continents, lemuria sinking into the pacific ocean, and attilan sinking into the atlantic. this occurred 1100 years before the time of conan (the hyborian age) and hundreds of years after kull was king in valusia on attilan (atlantis) .
the atlantean cataclysm destroyed all but a vestige of the serpent race who were never very numerous in the first place. the inhabitants of attilan survived in somewhat greater numbers. much of their technology was preserved by the progenitors of the race of inhumans, who fled to the european mainland to establish the first great refuge (of many; see the mighty thor # 147). an enclave of atlanteans sank into the bowels of the earth to become the netherworld (currently ruled by kala and struggling with the minions of tyrannus and the mole man; see the fantastic four # 127, 128). but the major part of the civilization: the dwellings, the libraries, the gardens and the fertile fields, all disappeared beneath the waves forever.
funnies , inc. is an american comic book packager of the 1930s to 1940s period collectors and historians call the golden age of comic books . founded by lloyd jacquet , it supplied the contents of early comics , including that of marvel comics # 1 ( cover-dated oct. 1939 ) , the first publication of what would become the multimedia corporation marvel comics . 
funnies, inc. is an american comic book packager of the 1930s to 1940s period collectors and historians call the golden age of comic books. founded by lloyd jacquet, it supplied the contents of early comics, including that of marvel comics # 1 (cover-dated oct. 1939), the first publication of what would become the multimedia corporation marvel comics.
funnies, inc. is an american comic book packager of the 1930s to 1940s period collectors and historians call the golden age of comic books. founded by lloyd jacquet, it supplied the contents of early comics, including that of marvel comics # 1 (cover-dated oct. 1939), the first publication of what would become the multimedia corporation marvel comics.