Namor the Sub-Mariner?
Even leaving that aside, I got to thinking about it, and would Namor even have any spots that would be vulnerable to a hypodermic? It's mentioned in another panel: the bowery bums get sick of that uppity amnesiac Namor, so they shoot him up full of stolen morphine, give him a a little blanket party, and toss him into the ocean. At this point, it's easier to believe the lost king of Atlantis is living as a homeless man in New York City, then it is to buy a bum stealing morphine and not using it himself.
I'm going to try to articulate what's just armchair comic-book science here, but if Sub-Mariner is capable of surviving under the huge pressure of the ocean floor, wouldn't his body have to be equalized against that pressure? Thus, he couldn't have a weak spot, because if he did, the pressure would crush him at that point.
But, if we grant that a hypodermic pierced Namor's skin, would he then be able to go to the deepest depths like he could before, without losing pressure at the point of the wound and being crushed?
Yeah, another productive afternoon completely shot to hell...I'm giving this a lot of thought, considering the Sub-Mariner's undersea world seems really unworkable: the machines, speech, fish swimming in and out of everything. Aquaman too, although I've seen at least a couple JLA issues acknowledge the lack of light down 20,000 Leagues under the sea, or whatever.
Completely out of context, maybe, from Fantastic Four Unlimited #6, "Pax Atlantea" Written by Roy Thomas, pencils by Herb Trimpe, inks by LaRosa, Montano, and Imperato.
Maybe they jabbed the needle into his gill slits?
ReplyDeleteI know Byrne would draw Namor with gills when he was underwater, so maybe that's how?
Otherwise, I agree, his body should be pretty much resistant to a freaking hypodermic.
The eye, they got him in the eye. Wertham was right all along!
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