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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 21: TRITON
One of my favorite team-ups, this issue was actually the second part of the story of Namor and Triton’s first meeting. Sub-Mariner 2 has a more iconic cover, in fact it appears on a T-shirt, but this one is special to me. Plus this team-up is actually held together by chaining Namor and Triton together like Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis in THE DEFIANT ONES! Bound by an energy bracelet, Namor and Triton are forced to work together to save London, and to discover what sort of person they are chained to.
After defeating Plantman, the team-up becomes a budding friendship. Triton’s relationship with Namor is now practically ignored, especially during the Inhumans push, but when Namor had his own book, Triton appeared regularly and was a good friend, as well as an ambassador to the surface world. It was Triton who announced Namor’s engagement to Lady Dorma to the UN. It was Triton who saved Namor’s life, and got him a new costume, when he brought the chemically poisoned Namor to Reed Richards. And it was Triton and Namor, in an Oscar worthy acting performance, who worked together to save Susan and Reed Richards marriage in Fantastic Four 149.
I’m not sure the last time these two team-up. The last I remember seeing was in the Inhumans mini-series by Paul Jenkins and Jae Lee, and that Triton had an altered history with Namor, that appeared to ignore continuity, including the fact that it was Triton who had a part in the catastrophic raising of Atlantis.
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