The Rime of The Ancient Mariner in Popular Culture - Comics

Comics

• MAD Magazine #200 (July 1978) published "The Rime Of The Modern Skateboarder", a full-length burlesque by Tom Koch and Don Martin.
• In Marvel Comics' Marvel Universe:
  • Agent Pratt, a reoccurring nemesis of the character Hulk, habitually quotes from The Rime, and debates with Banner about exactly what the albatross symbolizes.
  • Comic book author Bill Everett based his most famous character, the Namor the Sub-Mariner (a superhero), on this poem. In 'Namor: The Sub-Mariner' volume 1, number 44 (1993), an adapted version of the poem gets used by writer Glenn Herdling to tell a story about Namor himself.
• Carl Barks' final ten-pager for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories in #312 (Sept. 1966) is a tale titled "The Not-so-Ancient Mariner". In it, the closing lines of the first part of Coleridge's poem ("Why look'st thou so?'—'With my crossbow/I shot the Albatross.") are quoted several times.
• The pirate Brook from the manga One Piece has a similar background story to the rime.
• Nick Hayes re-wrote the tale as a graphic novel The Rime of the Modern Mariner, re-theming it to ecology. (ISBN 978-0224090254, Random House UK, Mar 22, 2011, 336 pages)
• The cartoonist Hunt Emerson produced a graphic novel, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, illustrating the poem, and featuring his usual quota of visual puns, gags and grotesque caricatures. The text, however, is essentially used verbatim.

• In Hugo Pratt's "Corto Maltese / Una Ballata del Mare Salato", one of the protagonist, Cain, reads and declaims passages of the poem.