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References to and Quotes about
The Sub-Mariner (Namor)

Avengers (vol. 1) #501 (Oct. 2004): "Chaos: Part Two of Four", page 21:
[Page 15, panel 4:] Hawkeye: "We're all about the short-term... We think Jack of Hearts os dead. We leave him up there in space. What do we know, right? Because now we got Namor to deal with . . . or this or that. But guess what? Jack isn't dead. He comes back and he explodes on us just like he always feared he would..."

Note: Seen in double-page spread of many Avengers on pages 21-22.

Captain America (vol. 1) #162 (June 1973): "This Way Lies Madness!", page 17, panel 1:
Captain America: "It's the curse-- my continuing curse: to have remained young while everyone around me turned old! Just me and the Sub-Mariner-- he because of his hybrid body chemistry-- and I because I was frozen-- Only we have stayed as we were, in a world of the middle-aged!"

Marvel Knights 4 #19 (Aug. 2005): "Inhumane, Part 1: Runaways", page 7, panel 1:
Susan Storm Richards/Invisible Woman: "When the Fantastic Four agreed to let film producer Richard Kornberg option our origin story, likenesses, and early adventures some years back -- after the Sub-Mariner's rights to the aforementioned expired, but that's another story -- we did so for one reason."

Marvel Knights 4 #21 (Oct. 2005): "Desperate Housewife", pages 8, 15, 17:
(Pg. 8) Sharon Ventura: "All right, Sue, now that we've loosened you up a bit... what is it with you and Namor?"
Invisible Woman: "Honestly, Sharon? Nothing. I mean, I think Namor's handsome, sure... but nothing's ever happened between us... I mean, I think we've kissed a couple of times, but those were like 'Beauty and the Beast'..." [more]

Marvel Knights Spider-Man #2 (July 2004): "Down Among the Dead Men: Part Two", page 24, panel 3:
Yekaterina (shape-shifting prostitute): "Or perhaps you feeling adventurous, my lover? Perhaps you want aquatic love in hot-tub with Marinna from Atlantis, yeah? Former bride of the handsome Prince Namor?"

The New Avengers (vol. 2) #30 (Nov. 2012), page 1:
The Phoenix Force arrived... its powers ended up in... Cyclops, Emma Frost, Namor, Colossus, and Magik... [more]