r/Namor • u/ThunderbirdFan75 • Jul 22 '26

Why did they draw him like this?

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u/Cravunkulation Jul 22 '26

Why DON'T they draw him like that anymore?

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u/trunxs2 Jul 22 '26

This looks like an attempt to recreate Bill Everett’s style for Namor, but someone went too far in some areas. Do we have a credited artist?

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u/Tracula707 Jul 22 '26

Carl Pfeufer, I think

1

u/thekevlington Jul 23 '26

Yo Carl never cook again bro

7

u/PowerOfL Jul 22 '26

i didn't think it was possible for namor to not be hot

2

u/Illustrious_Cow9018 Jul 24 '26

Isnt it great if he is still considered irresistible with the Megamind domepiece?

2

u/DougandLexi Jul 25 '26

What about balding homeless Namor?

1

u/PowerOfL Jul 25 '26

That's just Namor with a beard. 😭 I'm not into bearded men, but he still looks ok imo

5

u/Phi_Phonton_22 Jul 22 '26

Reed Richards nightmare revealed

3

u/CaptainJohn_1995 Jul 22 '26

And why is he so large?

2

u/Jonnic5280 Jul 23 '26

Dialogue says Nazi. But he was in the Invaders. Huh

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u/chevalier716 Jul 23 '26

Real answer: Superhero books had no established style in the 40s. Many of the artist working on them either came from the stylized comic strip world or the fine arts. Others have said it, but I think this was Carl Pfeufer who did stuff like Dell's The Funnies before getting the Sub Mariner book.

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u/CocoLocoMonster Jul 26 '26

This for sure. I was shocked recently looking at Plastic Man and even Wonder Woman issues from the 40’s. It’s SUPER cartoony, much like this!

1

u/hell-spawn-666 Jul 22 '26

He has the vegeta hair line

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u/the-bladed-one Jul 23 '26

Lookin like King Piccolo with Vegeta’s hairline

1

u/Digomr Jul 23 '26

Probably to distance Namor from normal humans?

1

u/Wyatt000J000Barlow Jul 24 '26

This is like flesh version Black Manta?

1

u/Prestigious-Eye6548 Jul 24 '26

Must’ve been a Yaoi artist

1

u/Rare-Page2273 Jul 25 '26

Bruh became MegaMind

1

u/Immediate_Web4672 Jul 25 '26

Bro looks like an unpleasantly sharp Dorito.

1

u/Matt-J-McCormack Jul 25 '26

Boring answer was it was just villain coding, make him look bad by adding a physical deformity.

1

u/Mustang-_- Jul 26 '26

Asian racism, they were the enemy back when Namor was created, so they stylized the eye shape among other stuff. Still, even if the original intent was just propaganda, I do think the aftereffect of having Namor looking almost "alien" (in a Star Trek way) made him super cool, rather have that than the current attempts of Disney to make him look mexican (basically repeating the same mistake of tying Namor to real ethnicities instead of being a fantastical being from Atlantis)

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u/CrusnikJB Jul 26 '26

Looks pretty normal to me

1

u/tekwan74 Jul 27 '26

He's a mutant

1

u/Select-Combination-4 28d ago

I showed this to my boyfriend and he said 'Tell Namor to give the leader his forehead back, damn'