Artist Bob Powell Illustrated Two Prince Namor Stories...
...during the 1950s revival of the Timely's Top Trio (Captain America, The Human Torch, and the Sub-Mariner)!
However, despite having done several Subby stories during the Golden Age, Powell's renderings here lack something...
Figure out what's wrong with Bob Powell's version of Namor from Atlas' Mens' Adventures #27 (1954)?
He's totally-missing his ankle wings!
And his ears appear to have been "bobbed" from their usual elfen points!
Why?
I'm not sure.
There are rumors from the period of a potential live-action TV series, and doing both the ankle wings and the ears on a weekly basis (especially with a character who spends a lot of time in the water) was problematic considering the limited makeup SFX available at the time.
At any rate, only Powell's two stories from the period have this quirky "look"!
