First published at 04:21 UTC on June 26th, 2021.
Hey kids (of all ages), it's Saturday Morning Cartoon time again!
Three of the five characters starring in the MARVEL SUPER-HEROES wheel show were shiny, new, Silver-Age adventurers who'd just debuted in print a few years before. Saturda…
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Hey kids (of all ages), it's Saturday Morning Cartoon time again!
Three of the five characters starring in the MARVEL SUPER-HEROES wheel show were shiny, new, Silver-Age adventurers who'd just debuted in print a few years before. Saturday before last, we covered one of the Golden Age players in the rotation with CAPTAIN AMERICA. Today we'll look at an even older superguy. NAMOR THE SUB-MARINER, who dates back to 1939, around the same time as BATMAN.
Namor, predates rival DC Comics' AQUAMAN by over a year, but each character seems to have influenced the other over the decades of publication. Namor, however, has been more consistently depicted as a borderline antihero, while Aquaman has been everything from that through a generic good-guy nerfed for '70s network kid shows.
Apologies for the eccentricities of this 'print'. It was surprisingly difficult to dig-up a copy of this particular segment. But I didn't want to stop short of finishing the set.
From 1966.
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