Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Crossover Cover: Nautilus

In this issue of the Australian comic book company Frew Publications' Phantoms series, the Ghost Who Walks discovers the Nautilus, which still has Captain Nemo's corpse inside it. Nemo was last seen alive and well in 1939, when he had three encounters with Navy Jones, the adventurous great-grandson of the legendary Davy Jones, as seen in three issues of the Fox series Science Comics. These 1939 exploits, incidentally, demonstrate that Nemo's alleged death in 1909 (referred to by Alan Moore in "The New Traveler's Almanac") was a falsehood. Nemo would have been 131 years old when he encountered Navy Jones, but appears much younger, presumably due to undergoing the Capellean blood-sharing ceremony when he was younger. Nemo must have finally died for real at some point between 1939 and 1988, when his ghost encountered the Ghostbusters, as seen in the comic book story "The Counter Clock Criminals."

4 comments:

  1. Since you mentioned Nemo, are his Marvel appearances in the CU, along with the group he meets, the "Confederates of the Curious"? http://marvel.wikia.com/Captain_Nemo_(Earth-616)

    And speaking of Davy Jones, does the Marvel version of him fit into the CU? http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix5/jonesdavy.htm

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  2. Since Win didn't include superhero teams in the CU for the most part, I'm following his example. So I'm not going to include Matt Fraction's Defenders series in the main timeline, though it's worth mentioning in the AU section.

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  3. Regarding the Fraction's Defenders series, I believe it ended with the all the events therein erased from the timeline anyway.

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  4. The 1909 death of Captain Nemo is probably where the CU and the LoEG universes began to differ. What with James Bond being a psychotic rapist is in the Black Dossier.

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