CREATOR

Name: Marvel Worldwide, Inc.  (American comics corporation).
Personal dates: Founded  in 1939 by Martin Goodman (1908-1992) as Timely Comics. Today the corporation is owned by The Walt Disney Company.
Other creations
: Too numerous to mention here. Please look under Marvel in the Creators section.
Successors
: None.
Comments
: The corporation's logo has changed several times over the years. The selected one is from the 1990s.

 

 

MAIN STORY

The series premiered in 1968*. Stopped in 1974 after 72 issues, but has been revived several times since then.

The title character is the mutant son of a human sea captain and a mythological princess from an undersea kingdom, and his given name is Namor. He is a superhero with most of such characters' abilities plus a full, amphibious adaptation to the sea.

The full title of the series for the first 24 issues was Prince Namor, the Sub-mariner.

* The character first appeared in 1939, and he has over time starred in several other series of his own such as Essential Sub-mariner, Namor the Sub-mariner, and Sub-mariner Comics.

 

 

MAIN CHARACTER


Sub-mariner

 

 

GALLERY
(presenting the front covers from 6 random issues)

#1 - 1968

#17 - 1969

#27 - 1970

#38 - 1971

#56 - 1972

#72 - 1974

 

 

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