{"id":4641,"date":"2019-07-14T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=4641"},"modified":"2019-07-15T01:02:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T05:02:36","slug":"sub-mariner-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2019\/07\/14\/sub-mariner-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Sub-Mariner 40"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I tracked down that issue of Sub-Mariner so we can see how this goes. I don\u2019t know what that 1\/- is in the corner box. Let\u2019s see how Subby\u2019s living in his own book these days. You may be surprised to learn this comic is by Gerry Conway and Gene Colan. Yeah, the same people who did the preceding DD issue! Sam Grainger inks Colan here, as Namor & Spider-Man fall through a featureless void with the lady from the thing, who tells Namor there\u2019s nothing to fear. I mean\u2026 Falling through nothing feels bad to me. Namor and Spidey tell each other what happened in DD 77 in case you weren\u2019t there and then we can get moving. Spidey guesses maybe they\u2019re falling into the teardrop thing from last issue, and she says they might find the truth even more shocking, but that’s it. They just keep on fallin’ like Alicia Keys.
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\u201cYou got that wand hooked up to a squid, ma\u2019am?\u201d As the trio is bathed in darkness, the lady says she\u2019s from \u201cThe People of The Black Sea,\u201d expecting Namor to know what that means, but he chooses to remain silent. Spidey wonders if they’re going crazy (One of his signature moves under Conway), but Namor sez no.
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Spidey is getting really annoyed that no one will tell him what\u2019s going on. A fair feeling, I\u2019d say. The woman reveals The City in the distance. Namor implies \u201cThe Black Sea\u201d is a myth in Atlantis, and we\u2019re told he\u2019s very troubled. Then we cutaway to an old guy called Mr. Tuvall in a nursing home, saying he doesn\u2019t want anything to eat, and he has a lot of thinking to do. Ok. Is this a Namor subplot, I guess? It doesn\u2019t seem like it? Then it\u2019s back to \u201cThe City.\u201d
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While Spidey contemplates his own troubles, the woman, Princess Tuvia, leads a mob to this Turalla guy\u2019s places. As she tries to rile up the people for a revolution, Turalla comes out, saying she seems to care more for Namor than him even though they\u2019re betrothed (Ain\u2019t they always in a story like this?). She says he can\u2019t marry her until he\u2019s fought her champion, as is the law, so Namor is summoned to Turalla\u2019s citadel to get it crackin\u2019.
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Colan has Spidey doing a lot of hand acting. As they head out to the fight, Tuvia says the law totally allows for 2 champions to fight Turalla, which seems deeply unfair, but he doesn\u2019t seem to care. He\u2019s warned he can\u2019t use his \u201cvicious mindblasts,\u201d that he can only rassle these boys, and then it\u2019s on.
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Namor flips Turalla into the ground, but he\u2019s still awake, and he grabs Spider-Man by the head and smashes him into some rocks. Spidey\u2019s not doing so well, so Namor hits the floor, collapsing the ground beneath Turalla and letting Spider-Man get free.
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Wh\u2026 what? Talk about a deus ex machina! Seriously?? The random old guy in New England shot a mental zap all the way to wherever-this-is out of nowhere? Good grief. What a weird issue. Spidey leaves this wacky duel of honor to go appear in ASM 98 now, I think. Cap 138, the 2nd half of his guest spot in that book, came out the same month as DD 77, and this came out 2 months later. This could\u2019ve happened before ASM 95, but I think it has to take place before 98, so I\u2019m saying all 4 of these guest spots took place between ASM 97 and 98. So it shall be!
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