Motion Picture Funnies Weekly Vol 1 Issue 1

**Motion Picture Funnies Weekly Vol 1 #1** was a comic created by both Timely Comics and First Funnies Inc (now called Funnies Inc). It is notable for having the first appearance of Namor the Submariner.

# Here is the Sub-Mariner!

### Primary Characters

* Namor (First Appearance)

### Supporting Characters

* Holy One (First Appearance)
* Fen (First Appearance)

### Antagonists

* S.S. Recovery Crew
	+ Captain (First Appearance)
	+ Chief Mate (First Appearance)
	+ Rod Nelson (First Appearance; Dies)
	+ Ev Carley (First Appearance; Dies)
	+ Chip Anderson (First Appearance; Dies)
	+ Peters (First Appearance; Dies)
	+ First Assistant (First Appearance; Dies)

### Other Characters

* Oracle Crew
	+ Captain Leonard McKenzie (First Appearance)
* Atlanteans
	+ Karal (First Appearance)
* Olympians
	+ Neptune (First Appearance; Mentioned)
	+ Mother of Neptune (First Appearance; Mentioned)

## Groups

### Primary Groups

* S.S. Recovery Crew (First Appearance, destroyed)
* Atlantean Royal Family (First Appearance)
* Oracle Crew (First Appearance; Flashback)

### Other Groups

* Coast Guard (First Appearance; Mentioned)

## Species

* Humans (First Appearance)
* Atlanteans (First Appearance)
* Human Mutants (First Appearance; Retroactive)
* Human-Atlantean Hybrid (First Appearance)
* Fish (First Appearance)
	+ Sharks (First Appearance; Mentioned)
* Seals (First Appearance; Mentioned)
* Robots (First Appearance; Mentioned)
* Olympians (First Appearance; Mentioned)

## Locations

### Universe

* Earth-616 (First Appearance)

### Galaxies

* Milky Way (First Appearance)

### Solar Systems

* Sol System (First Appearance)

### Planets

* Earth (First Appearance)

### Cities

* Atlantis (First Appearance)

## Paraphernalia

### Vehicles

* S.S. Recovery (First Appearance)
* Oracle (First Appearance; Flashback)

## Summary

Somewhere in the Southern Ocean, the S.S. Recovery is salvaging a wreck. The primary diver, Rod Nelson has come up from investigating and reports that although he found the safe, it has been cleared out and the knife used to open it was still on the scene and hadn't rusted yet. The Captain states that incident is strange and decides to have Nelson go back down with Ev Carley in order to investigate the cause or culprit. Nelson and Carley investigate and notice that a hatch that had been closed was suddenly open. Nelson and Carley enter the hatch and see a man swimming and looting the wreck. The divers are shocked as the pressure should kill any man not wearing a diving suit. The divers then decide to follow the swimmer. The swimmer, in actuality Namor the Sub-Mariner, believes the men are robots and swims away from them. Namor then finds the cables hooked to the diving suit and cuts them. The divers sense the wires cut and move fast to conserve the air in their suits and attempt to contact the ship but are unable to. Namor then rushes in and uses his knife to stab one of the divers and then crushes the head of the other. The Captain and Chip Anderson see the bubbles from the fight, and Anderson dons a diving suit to help Nelson and Carley. When Anderson reaches the wreck he sees the dead bodies and hastily attempts to get back to the surface as Namor watches. Anderson reports and the ship decides to alert the Coast Guard but Namor uses his strength to grab hold of the rudder and stop the propeller. The crew starts panicking when the ship begins hurdling towards a coastal reef and large rocks. the S.S. Recovery splits in two.

Namor then dives toward the wreck collects the corpses of Nelson and Carley and swims to Atlantis where he presents his kills to the court. Namor unmasks the divers and is shocked to see that they are humans, however Namor's mother, Princess Fen, states that Namor did well and that it was the first step for the Atlantean's revenge against humanity. Fen then has the corpses brought to the royal chambers to show the rest of the Atlanteans the fate humans must face. Namor is still unsure of why humanity must die especially because he is half Human. Fen says that Namor's father was a good man, but the rest of humanity were cruel and nearly killed the Atlantean race. Fen explains that in 1920, a ship called the Oracle captained by Leonard McKenzie, Namor's father, sailed for the Antarctic to test bombs. Unbeknownst to the crew the spot they were on was the old city of Atlantis, and the city was being destroyed and its people killed. Fen was chosen to be a spy as she most resembled a human. Fen hid on the ship and was found by a crewman and taken to Captain McKenzie. McKenzie had given Fen clothes and food for Fen but these gifts were not fruitful as the clothes nearly suffocated her and the food made her sick. Over time Fen learned English, and fell in love with Captain McKenzie and the two married and Fen fell pregnant with Namor. During all this time Fen fed information to Atlantis and concluded the humans were too strong to fight against and their first counter attack was decimated during a round of bomb testing. Twenty year later, Fen tells Namor that it is his duty to avenge Atlantis.

## Review

### Story

The story was actually pretty captivating.

# Other Stories

I don't have access to these other stories.