Fantastic Four #4

Marvel · 1962

Noted for: Silver Age return of the Sub-Mariner

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Why collectors care

The Silver Age return of the Sub-Mariner, cover-dated May 1962. Namor is one of the very first Marvel superheroes, created in 1939, and this issue brought him back into the modern Marvel universe, making it a bridge between the Golden and Silver Ages.

How to identify it

Fantastic Four #4, May 1962, 12-cent cover. Johnny Storm finds Namor living as an amnesiac in the Bowery. This is NOT Namor's first appearance — that is Marvel Comics #1 (1939), a Golden Age book in a different price universe.

Common mistakes

Listings that call this "1st Sub-Mariner". It is his first SILVER AGE appearance; the 1939 debut is a separate and far more valuable book. The distinction is worth confirming before you bid.