{"id":2516,"date":"2020-07-01T07:57:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T14:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2516"},"modified":"2020-05-21T23:56:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T06:56:11","slug":"422-namor-as-a-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/422-namor-as-a-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"422 &#8211; Namor as a Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"516\" height=\"526\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/namor-as-a-boy.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/namor-as-a-boy.png 516w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/namor-as-a-boy-294x300.png 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Sub-Mariner #32, March 1949<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The final issue of Sub-Mariner Comics #23 also came out in March 1949.  Like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2490\">the Human Torch&#8217;s last issue<\/a>, it features an origin story for the Sub-Mariner that goes much deeper into Namor&#8217;s birth, early life, than has ever been seen before.  I don&#8217;t know if this was just a backup story they had lying around or a last-ditch attempt to see if stories about a teenage Namor would strike a chord with readers.  Oddly, the caption at the end of the last story reads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>What further evil deeds of revenge will the Sub-Mariner dream up?  Watch for his spiteful return in the next issue of Sub-Mariner Comics<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet it would take 5 years for issue #24 to come out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, this pretty much signals the end of superheroes at Timely (Marvel) for some time.  I believe there is a brief attempt at a revival in the mid-1950s that didn&#8217;t go anywhere, so we have about ten years of comic book history until we see the true rise of the Marvel age of comics in the 1960s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final issue of Sub-Mariner Comics #23 also came out in March 1949. Like the Human Torch&#8217;s last issue, it features an origin story for the Sub-Mariner that goes much deeper into Namor&#8217;s birth, early life, than has ever been seen before. I don&#8217;t know if this was just a backup story they had lying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[448,99,90,92,337,445,396,251],"class_list":["post-2516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-448","tag-golden-age","tag-marvel","tag-namor","tag-origin","tag-silver-age","tag-superhero-collapse","tag-teenager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2518,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions\/2518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}