Dark X-Men: The Beginning #1

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

This is from Dark X-Men: The Beginning #1. It's by Paul Cornell and Leonard Kirk.

Comments

[bariman1987.insanejournal.com]

Namor can't be the first mutant. He's not even a century old, and there's been many mutants older than that. Wolverine, for instance, was born in the early 1800s.

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

I think they meant "first mutant" as he was created first.

[jackissuperfly.insanejournal.com]

In-universe, he's the first mutant of the modern age, the first mutant in the mutant baby-boom. (Technically he's not, but let's pretend.) And you could make a pretty good argument that he's the first Big Name Mutant, which is definitely the case: the Marvelverse 1930's had quite a few superheroes, but by this point, all anyone remembers is Namor and Torch, and Torch is a robot.