Looking at some of Bill Everett’s
earliest Marvel tales about the Sub-Mariner, from 1939-40, I am reminded what a
perverse protagonist this character was — murdering people in fits of pique, helping
others in manic spasms, wrecking Manhattan infrastructure like Kong.
Everett managed the difficult feat
of an original take on the much-imitated Superman template – an anti-hero
Superman, an amoral, arrogant Superman.
A Hollywood film about Namor as
written could easily be a blockbuster. That’s both a compliment to Everett’s
genius and a sad comment on the moral tone of our society, one that demands a Superman
who breaks people’s necks.
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