![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He even had his own spin-off character, a cousin named Namora, who also appears in Wakanda Forever as a fellow Atlantean. More angry and violent than many other superheroes, Namor held a grudge against the surface world that led him to challenge the original Human Torch, who also debuted in 1939's Marvel Comics #1, in the first-ever Marvel crossover and the first fight between two Marvel heroes.Īfter the dust settled, Namor and the Human Torch joined forces with Captain America as the 'All-Winners Squad,' a team that was renamed the Invaders when their stories were revisited in a modern context in the late '60s. Still, that similarity is likely one of the reasons Marvel Studios has changed Namor's home from Atlantis to a new sunken city named Talocan, based on Tlālōcān, the domain of the Aztec storm god in indigenous Mexican mythology.īack to comics, Namor debuted as something of an anti-hero right off the bat. If that sounds like Aquaman's backstory, you're not wrong - however, Namor beat Aquaman to the page by two years, with Arthur Curry debuting in 1941, though Namor's home kingdom wasn't identified as Atlantis until 1961. (By the way, the name 'the Sub-Mariner' goes all the way back to Namor's first appearance, and literally means a person who travels underwater.) ![]() Born to a human father and an Atlantean mother, Namor learned of his heritage in his youth and retreated into the ocean where he learned to shun surface dwellers for their treatment of his home environment. Introduced by writer/artist Bill Everett in 1939's Marvel Comics #1 (which was published back when the company still went by the name Timely Comics), Namor is the long-lost prince of the sunken Kingdom of Atlantis. ![]()
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