The Sub-Mariner predates Marvel (unless you mean the literal name of the comic he was in) as he was created for Timely Comics in 1939.
He does predate Aquaman, but only by two years. Aquaman was always DC. I have no idea if Aquaman was a response though. “Ocean-based Superhero” isn’t really all that hard to think up. The original Aquaman also wasn’t Atlantean. His father studied Atlantis and trained him to breathe underwater and talk to fish because comics were super stupid back then.
I meant Marvel in an anachronistic way😊 . (He was Timely at the time, but people would know him from Marvel these days.)
I kinda wanted to defend Aquaman a little bit: I think Aquaman only looks silly from a modern perspective. Back in the day he was a perfectly reasonable character, given the massive success of another underwater hero at the time.
Of course, all DC superheroes have to deal with the existence of God-like characters like Superman making everybody else look like chumps!
I’m fine with Aquaman as a hero. But “I’m a normal person who learned to breathe underwater and talk to fish because my dad learned the secrets of Atlantis” is very silly.
Back when Marvel’s Sub-Mariner was incredibly popular, Aquaman must have seemed like a good idea.
The Sub-Mariner predates Marvel (unless you mean the literal name of the comic he was in) as he was created for Timely Comics in 1939.
He does predate Aquaman, but only by two years. Aquaman was always DC. I have no idea if Aquaman was a response though. “Ocean-based Superhero” isn’t really all that hard to think up. The original Aquaman also wasn’t Atlantean. His father studied Atlantis and trained him to breathe underwater and talk to fish because comics were super stupid back then.
I meant Marvel in an anachronistic way😊 . (He was Timely at the time, but people would know him from Marvel these days.)
I kinda wanted to defend Aquaman a little bit: I think Aquaman only looks silly from a modern perspective. Back in the day he was a perfectly reasonable character, given the massive success of another underwater hero at the time.
Of course, all DC superheroes have to deal with the existence of God-like characters like Superman making everybody else look like chumps!
I’m fine with Aquaman as a hero. But “I’m a normal person who learned to breathe underwater and talk to fish because my dad learned the secrets of Atlantis” is very silly.