Marvel Masterworks: The Sub-Mariner, Vol. 7

Marvel Masterworks: The Sub-Mariner #7

by Bill Everett, Dan Adkins, Mike Friedrich

If ever there was a collection worthy of the title "Marvel Masterworks," Bill Everett's seminal '70s return to the Sub-Mariner, the character he made a legend, is it! Beginning with Sub-Mariner #50, Everett began a run as writer/artist that rivaled the greatest work of his career. His luxuriant artwork and signature anarchic take on Sub-Mariner made every page an action-packed classic. Villains from Subby's past like Prince Byrrah set the stage, while the debut of Namorita and a new fi re-vs.-water nemesis, Sunfi re, ratchet up the drama.

SUB-MARINER (1968) 50-60

Genres: Comics, Marvel

224 pages, Hardcover

First published January 26, 2016

About the author

William Blake Everett, aka Bill Everett, was a comic book writer-artist best known for creating Namor the Sub-Mariner as well as co-creating Zombie and Daredevil with writer Stan Lee for Marvel Comics. He was a descendant of the poet William Blake and of Richard Everett, founder of Dedham, Massachusetts.

Reviews

[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bill Everett returns to the character he created back in the '30s with this volume and the artwork is great. To be honest, the main thing that lets this down is that Everett draws some pretty horrific racist caricatures of the Japanese cast in the early issues collected here.

I don't know whether to be more disappointed with the artist that he thought these kind of depictions were still acceptable or with his collaborators/editors for not calling him out for it! Surely SOMEBODY realised these kind of racial caricatures, barely justifiable as propaganda during WWII (when Everett first created Namor), were absolutely unacceptable in the 1970s (when this book was first published)!

It's bewildering, really...

[Jimbo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thank God for Bill Everett and I am so sad that he passed away during this collection.

His stories and art found the Sub-Mariner that he created back in 1939. They were powerful. Namor wasn't as arrogant and self-obsessed. He introduced Namorita and brought back Betty Dean. He recovered his memories and found compassion throughout the issues.

I loved Mike Friedrich's Ghost Rider, but his throwing in one big monster after the next with no explanation or anything is just not nearly what Namor should be about. Steve Gerber does a great job of following Everett's stories and bringing Namor back to where he belongs.

My favorite of the collections and there is only one left and Everett is gone, so we will see what Gerber does with Namor in the last twelve issues of this series.

[Mhorg · Rating 5 out of 5]

The return of Bill Everett

Bill, the creator of the sub mariner, returns in this volume and his art and stories, which, sadly, he died before completing, are the highlights of this volume.

[Brent · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good character development and the return of Bill Everett earns this volume an extra star.

[Matt · Rating 2 out of 5]

+ Bill Everett art

[Austin]

Bill Everett art. One of my favorite covers of all time. Writing ok.