Hi I've been insanely enamored and invested into Namor for a good while since Avengers (2018) #8 & 9. Your Namor blog has been a great help btw on getting to know the Sub-Mariner. But what can you tell me about his company Oracle Incorporated?
Hello! Glad to see another Subby fan, and yes I can: In 1990 writer John Bryne started his run called Namor, the Sub-Mariner, this was after Namor hadn’t had a solo comic since his 1968 series ended and was regulated to team books for most of the 80′s. So with this fresh start Bryne took Namor out of Atlantis and into the surface to navigate the terrifying world of corporate management.
Namor meets and is helped by a father, daughter pair and then uses the wealth of sunken ships to start up his business which was called Oracle Inc. (Named after his father Leonard McKenzie’s ship the Oracle, which was the ship he had used back in the 1920′s when he first met Princess Fen, Namor’s mother in the waters of Antarctica)
Namor the Sub-Mariner (1990) #1
In the beginning Namor thought to operate in the shadows, because well, the humans don’t really care for or trust Namor, they thought he was dead so he went undercover until he had to reveal himself. Carrie and her father were friends who helped Namor run the company. Oracle Inc was meant to work with the surface world to stop the pollution of the oceans and the earth, and Namor at this point became even more of an Eco-Warrior. However there were enemies, like Roxxon who are basically the bad corporate people. Then we have the infamous Namor riding a griffin he had tamed into a board room to threaten them/find out who was messing with Oracle.
Namor the Sub-Mariner (1990) #3
Namor basically uses Oracle Inc as his base of operations for most of the 90′s, his younger cousin Namorita comes to help out. Namor deals with people like the Headhunter, another business baddie, and the Marrs Twins, old enemies resurface like Llyra, and Namor goes back and forth from land to sea whenever there is trouble in Atlantis, and also has other adventures such as going to the savage land, having amnesia (again) and towards the end of the series we have the Atlantis Rising event which ended with Atlantis being destroyed (again).
Currently in the comics Roxxon have been revealed to once again be the bad guys. Since they and Namor have a history I would expect more with them clashing in the future. I hope this helps!
Here are a few of my favorite pages from that series, where Namor sulks in a pool and then later Nita gives him a makeover disguise so he could go to a party.
Namor the Sub-Mariner (1990) #4
