Thanksgiving letter from Popeye (November 23, 1935) (Great content; possibly from E.C. Segar himself!?) Can you name all of these Thimble Theatre Characters?
Welcome to a Namor Advent Calendar! Have a bit of Namor cheer for each of the 24 days till Christmas! This year I’ll be highlighting Namor Team-Ups!
DAY 23: NAMORA
Another team-up from the Golden Age and another first appearance.
Pay no attention to the Original Human Torch trying to horn in on this team-up on the cover. Jim Hammond doesn’t appear in Namora and Namor’s story.
Golden Age Namor is again very reasonable about his team-ups – just asking him seems to be work most the time.
Namora first appeared late in 1947, and by the Atlas era sadly seems to have taken Lady Dorma’s place as Namor’s Atlantean ‘sidekick.’ But she delivers such classic team-ups as this one, where Namor “infiltrates” a water show and is forced to wear this amazing costume, affectionately known as, “FIN!”
Welcome to a Namor Advent Calendar! Have a bit of Namor cheer for each of the 24 days till Christmas! This year I’ll be highlighting Namor Team-Ups!
DAY 24: LADY DORMA
In honor of the upcoming King In Black Namor mini-series by Kurt Busiek, I’m starting with Namor’s very first team-up, in Marvel Comics #1, which was with Lady Dorma!
Unlike many future team-ups, this one doesn’t start with Namor fighting with Dorma. Instead, Lady Dorma does what she usually does, i.e. insist on joining Namor on his adventure. The first 8 pages of this story is actually a reprint of Bill Everett’s story for Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1. Lady Dorma isn’t in those pages, but in the new pages that Bill Everett drew specifically for Marvel Comics #1.
Bonus picture, the original art of the last page of the story, which is also the oldest piece of Marvel art in existence. It also shows Lady Dorma is no shrinking violet, but a capable companion.
