{"id":3290,"date":"2021-02-26T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3290"},"modified":"2021-01-19T01:13:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T09:13:18","slug":"588-namor-power-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/588-namor-power-up\/","title":{"rendered":"588 &#8211; Namor Power-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"536\" height=\"532\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/namor-powerup-2.png\" alt=\"A panel from Sub-Mariner #38, November 1954\" class=\"wp-image-3292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/namor-powerup-2.png 536w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/namor-powerup-2-300x298.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/namor-powerup-2-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Sub-Mariner #38, November 1954<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Sub-Mariner #38 (Nov 1954), Namor is called into the Emperor&#8217;s castle underneath Antarctica.  In a quick exposition, we are told that the Sub-Mariner used to have incredible powers:  super-strength, flight, invulnerability, but that he has lost them over his extended time interacting with land dwellers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"524\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/namor-powerup-1.png\" alt=\"Another panel from Sub-Mariner #38, November 1954\" class=\"wp-image-3291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/namor-powerup-1.png 524w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/namor-powerup-1-271x300.png 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><figcaption>Another panel from Sub-Mariner #38, November 1954<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Namor is told that their scientists have discovered how to rejuvenate his powers and strap him to a panel:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"428\" height=\"774\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/namor-powerup-3.png\" alt=\"Namor being lowered into the charging vat in Sub-Mariner #38, November 1954\" class=\"wp-image-3293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/namor-powerup-3.png 428w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/namor-powerup-3-166x300.png 166w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><figcaption>Namor being lowered into the charging vat in Sub-Mariner #38, November 1954<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>CR-RA-A-ACK!  And just like that, the Sub-Mariner has regained all his mighty powers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"622\" height=\"564\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/namor-powerup-4.png\" alt=\"Namor on full dingle in Sub-Mariner #38, November 1954\" class=\"wp-image-3294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/namor-powerup-4.png 622w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/namor-powerup-4-300x272.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><figcaption>Namor on full dingle in Sub-Mariner #38, November 1954<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sub-Mariner is then charged to take on the surface dwellers in a one-man battle.  Namor kind of hems and haws about this with Betty Dean, foiling some criminals and acts like kind of a dick to Betty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Sub-Mariner #38 (Nov 1954), Namor is called into the Emperor&#8217;s castle underneath Antarctica. In a quick exposition, we are told that the Sub-Mariner used to have incredible powers: super-strength, flight, invulnerability, but that he has lost them over his extended time interacting with land dwellers: Namor is told that their scientists have discovered how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[547,93,90,92,432,329],"class_list":["post-3290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-547","tag-antihero","tag-marvel","tag-namor","tag-power-changes","tag-super-powers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290","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=3290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3295,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290\/revisions\/3295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}