I've been rereading a wide range of Marvel (DC) month by month and am currently up to 1973. It's struck me that Submariner appeared in Iron Man's book A Lot over the years. Anyone know why?
I've been rereading a wide range of Marvel (DC) month by month and am currently up to 1973. It's struck me that Submariner appeared in Iron Man's book A Lot over the years. Anyone know why?
Namor was part of Iron Man's rogues-gallery for a long time. They share a lot in common that makes them good opponents: Namor is a king, Stark owns a company, Namor weakens because of lack of water, Iron Man weakens as his batteries run out, Stark is concerned with clean energy and avoiding pollution, Namor is violently obsessed with preventing ocean pollution. Namor is, in some ways, a caricature of Stark. So Namor used to show up so often that he almost rivaled The Mandarin for the position of Stark's arch-enemy.
There was this single issue which was a one-shot while Marvel was giving each of their shared book heroes their own book. I am positive Marvel is going to come out with another Iron Man and Sub-Mariner book with a new issue one and a small LGY 2 note..
I’ll don the mask and wear the cape
If I am super, how can I wait?
Yeah, it was 1968 before the distribution deal changed and there was a sudden explosion of new Marvel titles. It somewhat interests me that Spider-Man, Daredevil and The X-Men all launched in titles of their own well before that. It speaks to the faith Marvel must have had in those characters.
Marvel's made a few attempts. They restarted a Strange Tales series with Dr Strange and Cloak & Dagger which went I think 19 issues. There was also Marvel Comics Presents which was a biweekly with multiple stories which lasted well into three digits. More recently, both Marvel and DC have gotten mileage out of Black White, and other color type books with multiple stories in each issue with the same character, but different creative teams.
I’ll don the mask and wear the cape
If I am super, how can I wait?