Marvels Snapshots: Sub-Mariner #1 - "Reunion"

[laughing_tree]

I knew [Alan Brennert] likes Golden Age comics, and one of his novels was about Palisades Park, so I knew he’d done all the research he needed for that. So I pitched him the idea that it was a Betty Dean story about taking Namor to Palisades Park after the end of the war. And as it turned out, he was planning to move and had his stuff packed up so he wasn’t writing right then, and had some time. So he said yes.

He’s told me since then that he was in as soon as I said, “Betty Dean,” but the Palisades Park setting turned out to be useful, too.

I even had a backup idea: his other novels are mostly about Hawaii, so maybe we could do a story about Carol Danvers, shortly before she becomes Ms. Marvel, on a book tour — she’d written an expose about her time as security chief at NASA — in Hawaii, and, um, something happens that she witnesses. We didn’t ever have to figure out what, because Alan was all-in on Betty and Namor.

-- Kurt Busiek

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Avengers/Defenders: Tarot #3 (2020)

[laughing_tree]

I have always had a fondness for all of the usual mythology and legends from around the world but 'Journey to the West' is a particular favourite. I first discovered it through the Japanese TV series, 'Monkey', that achieved cult status in Britain during the seventies. -- Alan Davis

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