DC Co-Publisher Jim Lee recently revisited his days at Marvel Comics, recreating a fan-favorite image of Namor the Sub-Mariner he originally drew during Marvel's Heroes Reborn era.
Lee posted the new drawing of Namor on his Instagram page. The uncolored, pencil-and-ink image shows an ever-serious Namor sitting on his undersea throne. The rendering evokes a similar illustration originally pencilled by Lee and inked by Scott Williams. The original image appeared in colored and lettered form in Fantastic Four #2 from 1996.
"[The new] image was done last night in my hotel room here in Toronto while I was at Fan Expo Canada," Lee posted. Lee compared the new drawing to the original, adding, "[It's] an eerily similar shot I pencilled back in 1996 for my run on Fantastic Four during Heroes Reborn."
Lee cited his changing artistic style in the 23 years spanning the two drawings. "Less bombast, less '90s extremism, less hair twirl," Lee said.
"I miss the crazy hair twirl," Lee added.
Lee had originally worked at Marvel in the late '80s/early '90s before leaving the publisher with several of his colleagues to form Image Comics. Lee returned to Marvel in a sense when his Wildstorm Studios was hired to handle all production duties on Fantastic Four and Iron Man as part of Marvel's Heroes Reborn initiative.
