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Tales to Astonish #91

Outside the Gates Waits.. Death!

Featuring: Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner
Release: February 14, 1967
Cover: May 1967
12 cents
A shocking submersible saga by: Smilin’ Stan Lee and Wild Bill Everett
Inked by Dandy Danny Adkins
Lettered by Swingin’ Sammy Rosen
12 pages

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But ’tis no longer any concern of Namor’s! My subjects have forsaken me! Thus, they are deserving of their fate!

Dan Adkins is a mostly new name to us, though we’d seen his work when we checked out the THUNDER Agents. He was new to comics then, and has been Wally Wood’s assistant and artistic partner since. In addition to Tower, the pair has been doing work for Warren, Gold Key, and Harvey. Here’s a sampling of Adkins’ work after just over a year in the industry, all art drawn with Wally Wood in some combination.

THUNDER Agents #3, Tower, 1966
Creepy #9, Warren, 1966
The Munsters #8, Gold Key, 1966

Having defeated Namor in combat, Byrrah is crowned Prince Byrrah, Lord of Atlantis. Krang and Attuma join Byrrah by his side.

Imagine electing a leader who sides with your nation’s enemies so blatantly.

PRELUDE: Sub-Mariner #35, Story B

The Dawn of the Sub-Mariner

Featuring: Sub-Mariner
Release: June 2, 1954
Cover: August 1954
10 cents
Bill Everett
3 pages

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It’s because I’m part American! I– and only I– of all the Sub-Mariners, can live indefinitely out of water!!!

The next 3 issues feature stories from Namor’s childhood. This is a short and simple story, but shows us the rivalry between Namor and Byrrah goes back to childhood.

PRELUDE: Sub-Mariner #35

Invasion!

Featuring: Sub-Mariner
Release: June 2, 1954
Cover: August 1954
10 cents
Bill Everett
8 pages

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The Sub-Mariner’s loyalty to his own native race, whose home lies beneath the vast ice fields of the South Polar region, is often brought to a severe test when it comes in direct conflict with his almost equal loyalty to the people who inhabit the surface of the Earth! Frequently such conflicts have occurred– but never sone so terrible, nor so heartbreaking, as the incident known and recalled by Prince Namor with bitterness, as the Invasion!

This was during the attemped 1950s superhero revival by Marvel, where they brought back Captain America, Human Torch, and Sub-Mariner. Sub-Mariner had the most successful revival, his revived title lasting 10 issues, Sub-Mariner #33-42, coming out bimonthly over the course of a couple years. In contrast, Captain America and Human Torch lasted 3 issues apiece.

Before he makes his triumphant Marvel Age return, I felt now would be a good time to meet Prince Byrrah.