SUB-MARINER #14 (1969)

For reasons that aren’t entirely clear, the Mad Thinker and Puppet Master agree to be led by Egghead on a campaign to go after Subby, Captain Marvel, and The Avengers.  This is part two of that saga, which started in Avengers #63 and continues in Captain Marvel #14 and concludes in Avengers #64.

Look how Namor uses his bracelet as a set of brass knuckles in the fight scene above.  Badass.

Toro appears to die at the end. It’s a good comic, tying Namor’s WWII history into the main 616 Universe.

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  1. It’s just too bad that Marvel just couldn’t let Toro stay in the ground. And it’s just too bad that John Byrne loves the Human Torch android so much. Comics in general and Marvel Comics in particular just simply do not need a population of Human Torches. One is enough, and Johnny Storm has my vote. Two or more Human Torches is unnecessarily redundant. I, too, was impressed with the sequence where the Sub-Mariner uses his jewelry as offensive weaponry. Since Namor does not, and has never struck me as the type to wear jewelry, it is good to see here that the bracelets have a practical purpose. Fifty-three issues hence, I assume it’s the bracelets that will keep Namor’s yellow underarm glider-wings anchored into place. ( the ‘Reed Richards Rebreather’, from issue#67 ) During this particular period of Namor’s life and wanderings, I have always wondered how Namor keeps himself housed and fed. A lot of time on his hands to just swim around and wander. The ‘Atlantis Disaster’ of issues 67-72, through ‘Giant-Size Super-Villain Team-Up’s #1 and 2, and ‘Super-Villain Team-Up’s# 1-13, gave Namor the necessary character direction he so desperately needed by 1973, and his saga was never more interesting before or since. So naturally, it couldn’t last. Imperious Rex!!!

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