fuckyeahrichardiii: comicbookartwork: Prince Namor and Betty Dean circa 1930s By Jim Keefe this is m
fuckyeahrichardiii:comicbookartwork:Prince Namor and Betty Dean circa 1930s By Jim Keefethis is my critically endangered to the point of being moribund rarepair otp, so seeing them depicted like this, especially drawn according their look in 1939-40 is like a religious experience for meGuys you don’t understand: Betty Dean and Namor could almost be the perfect model for the Steggy-type ship in terms of sweet, pg-rated, slow burn complete with a massive dose of bittersweet “what could have been” and, eventually, a heavy serving of straight-up tragedy.They had six years of slow burn in the golden age comics (1939-45), where she kicked his butt into helping the American cause in WW2, talked him down from destroying New York, settled the fight between him and the Torch, and eventually took on the job of teaching him about human society and helping him figure out how to interact with people on the surface. He helped her in criminal investigations and, later, in tracking down sources for her newspaper stories, basically took direction from her when it came to fighting the Nazis and the Japanese in the war, and saved her from death several times. They went on tons of dates where any potential romance got interrupted because they had to fight gangsters or investigate and then put a violent end to Axis conspiracies. Several times one of them would declare “I could just kiss you right now!” but it didn’t happen until 1945.*After he recovers from years and years of amnesia he remembers Betty as his first love. In a 1969 issue he sees her again – she is old and grey, she’s been married and had children, and she talks him down during one of his fights with the Thing, then runs off quickly, returns home, and cries to herself. Namor is shaken to the core.Later, when they reconnect, Betty is the only person Namor trusts to raise his orphaned and homeless little cousin, Namorita. And finally, when he’s captured by his old enemies Tiger Shark and Attuma, Betty eventually sacrifices herself to save Namor’s life and dies in his arms.(*I’m setting aside the issue of Namor: the First Mutant where he’s depicted as a womanizer and a rake in the 40s and dates Betty and treats her like shit. it’s a good story in terms of the character arc in that specific series but doesn’t square with the rest of their relationship in the earlier comics.) -- source link