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The Namor the Sub-Mariner 2020 Advent Calendar
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 20: MAN-THING
I think this is the only time Namor and Man-Thing (sort of) team-up and it was a poetic, trippy art masterpiece! I say ‘sort of’ because Man-Thing seemed to be possessed by other spirits, or versions of himself. This team-up doesn’t start with a fight, but by a Neptune directed quest to the Nexus of All Realities …
… where he meets Man-Thing who ‘sings’ to him. “Child of the sea,” it caroled. “Child of the earth. A wounded, raging soul from birth. Devil’s ears, angel’s wings …” – which is such a perfect take on Namor.
They end up going to the ancient past, and visiting Atlantis before it sank, and encounter the Atlantean goddess Cleito, to fulfill their quest.
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Iceman #3 cover. 1984. Art by Mike Zeck and John Beatty.
Justice League America #34 (1990)
Writers: Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis
Artist: Adam Hughes
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