Namor - the original anti-heroįantastic Four #4 cover art (Image credit: Marvel Comics) Namor was just the tip of the iceberg (pun definitely intended here, given they also brought back Timely's Captain America, frozen in a block of ice a few years later in Avengers), and even as he became a recurring enemy for the Fantastic Four, he also began headlining his own heroic adventures. They also quickly started bringing in actual story elements from the Timely era, not just by rebooting the Human Torch as Johnny Storm of the Fantastic Four, but by almost immediately bringing in Namor as a foe of the team and a romantic rival for Reed Richards, forming a light love triangle with Sue Storm, then Reed's often tenuous girlfriend. When Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, both veteran Timely Comics creators, launched the Marvel Universe around 20 years later with 1961's Fantastic Four #1, they borrowed some philosophical and narrative cues from the Timely years.įirst and foremost, they baked the idea of superheroes in conflict right into their first Marvel building block, giving the Fantastic Four feet of clay (no pun on the Thing's rocky form intended) and personal foibles that often led to disagreements and disputes between the familial members of the Fantastic Four. Marvel formulaįantastic Four #25 art (Image credit: Marvel Comics)
Still, the concepts that would later come to define the idea of a superhero crossover are still there, including the idea of multiple chapters showing the events from the perspective of each hero in a longer-than-usual story. But the 'crossover' wasn't exactly what we'd expect from a modern event story.įor one thing, it took place over just two issues of Marvel Mystery Comics (Marvel Mystery Comics #8 and #9), with Human Torch and Namor's usual features each dedicated to the tale of their fight. It makes total sense - fire and water certainly don't mix, and even in his earliest adventures, Namor was an anti-hero at best, often raging against the surface world as much as protecting it (he's still like that, as we'll quickly learn).
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The very first Marvel Comics crossover (and yes, we're counting it that way since it took place in the pages of Marvel Mystery Comics) was a showdown between the original android Human Torch, and Namor the Sub-Mariner, the renegade prince of Atlantis. Marvel Mystery Comics #8 panel (Image credit: Marvel Comics)Īs we said, Marvel heroes fighting each other goes all the way back to the Golden Age, when Marvel Comics was still known as Timely Comics.
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