There he made his debut, along with Carl Burgos' The Human Torch, in Marvel Comics # 1, dated October, 1939.

So The Sub-Mariner went to Timely (later changed name to Atlas and ultimately to our more familiar moniker of Marvel). With the failure of 'Motion Pictures Funnies Weekly' to get successfully off of the Launch Pad, the company, Funnies, Inc., a contractor sent Bill Everett, Prince Namor and the rights to the Sub-Mariner feature to Timely Publications all for Ca$h Con$ideration$. It was designed for distribution via the Country's Movie Houses in a prototypical and tentatively named failed title of 'Motion Pictures Funnies Weekly'. The Sub-Mariner feature was intended to be a part of a Give-away Premium Comic Book. Following his triumphant return to the 4 Color Main Stage in Fantastic Four # 4, Sub-Mariner has been a constant source of Comics' Acton first as a traveling guest-star & bad boy, and then as the Star of his own feature ultimately leading to his own Comic Mag.* As for his own Genesis, the Good Prince was created in early 1939 by Artist & Writer, Bill Everett. With a couple of 'cease publications' in his On-News Stand History, he has proved himself to have great 'Box Office' appeal and staying power in the Comics Magazine Business. Much better known for years under the name of The Sub-Mariner the Royal Antlantian is among the oldest of the Comic Book Super Heroes.

He is a sort of Jekyll & Hyde character sometimes kindly, benevolent and helpful toward the surface land-lubber civilizations other times being hateful, vindictive and downright dangerous toward the air-breathers.

Namor, a Royal Prince of Atlantis, yet a half-cast Man having one foot in the surface World and the other set in the unseen Undersea realm of legend, has proved to be one of the most perplexing of the Great Comic Book Heroes.

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