Time for a Golden Age meeting of the ocean's greatest heroes!
Aquaman and Namor have a bit of history on this blog. They last met with the Defenders in STF #3927, they were battling Mer-Mutates in STF #2270, tried to avert war in Issue #1105, faced the sea's wrath back in Issue #751 and starred in my very first STF two-parter in Issue #3 and Issue #4.
In DC's Silver Age, Atlantis was already split between Poseidonis and Tritonis. But, here on Earth-STF, Poseidonis represents Aquaman's people, and the other half of Atlantis is the eponymous capital city from antedeluvian times. Even if I'm wrong, though; great blending of the original art work, Ross! :-)
ReplyDeleteFunny how you had so many 2 parters for these two. Great cover here.
ReplyDeleteOh,oh,oh it's B O N O M O!! Ross, you did Deadpool & Batman long ago!! Now..
for the maim event...: Deadpool and Red Hood (Jason)!! interested??
Where is that picture of Namor from?
ReplyDeleteMy head-canon is simple: DC Atlanteans worship the Greek god Poseidon, and Marvel Atlanteans worship the Roman god Neptune. It's a religious based schism. It's quite very easily shown in their respective publication histories. Greek gods are more prominent in DC, mainly because of Wonder Woman. There are exceptions like Ares, but Marvel's Ares can simply be called his Roman name, Mars. The Marvel hero is the Roman Hercules, while the DC demigod who r*ped Hippolyta is the Greek Heracles. Need further evidence? Marvel has the Roman god of the underworld, Pluto, as a villain, DC has the Greek god Hades. Even Namor's catchphrase, "Imperius Rex" is Latin, the language of the Romans!!!
ReplyDeleteMickey: A Golden Age Pin-Up https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Namor_McKenzie_(Earth-616)/Expanded_History?file=Namor_McKenzie_%28Earth-616%29_from_Marvel_Mystery_Comics_Vol_1_21_001.jpg
ReplyDeleteI forgot to mention: DC's Captain Marvel's (or Captain Thunder, my preferred name in a shared universe) magic word, SHAZAM, used both Greek and Roman deities, so they are both pantheons exist in the DC Universe already, so why not also in Marvel or a shared universe?
ReplyDeletePerhaps they already are (on the canonical Earth-Amalgam).
DeleteSo, Ross, this is a little off topic, but completely pertinent to this site.... I just read the Captain America/Wonder Woman team-up in the Deadpool/Batman comic. This is only my opinion, but I feel certain that story was greatly influenced by your series of Cap/Wonder Woman covers. The story doesn't come right out and say that Steve and Diana became life partners, but it's all clearly there between the lines....
ReplyDeleteI like the solution that "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" gave us: Arthur rules Atlantis, while Namor rules Talokan.
ReplyDeleteSonofjack, that's interesting, I haven't checked out the crossovers yet, waiting for them yo be collected. If they got any influence from my WW/Cap covers, I'd be honored - but to be fair it was DC and Marvel that influenced me to make those first!
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