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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published Spring 1942
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Stan Lee? Al Fago?

Cover Details

Characters The Sub-Mariner; The Angel [inset].
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Gabriele
Inks George Klein
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Sub-Mariner (Marvel, 2005 series) #2

1 page Marvel Comics promo (ad from the publisher) "Marvel at the world's grestest heroes in the most exciting adventures you've ever read!"

Characters The Sub-Mariner; the Human Torch; Toro; The Vision; Jimmy Jupiter; The Angel; The Patriot; Terry Vance
Synopsis Promotional ad for Marvel Comics and its features.
Genre superhero
Pencils Lee King [signed Lee]
Inks Lee King [signed Lee]
Notes Found on the inside front cover. Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich 3-4-07.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Sub-Mariner (Marvel, 2005 series) #2

20 page The Sub-Mariner story "The Sub-Mariner Raps the Japs In the Pacific!"

Characters The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; GS: Folma, Harla & Jadda; V: Japanese (many D).
Synopsis Prince Namor invents a 3-man submarine with which to wage war against the Japanese: heavily armed, having eight 6" high velocity torpedoes, depth charges, machine guns and a flame thrower, and faster than any torpedo boar ever built.
Genre superhero
Pencils Bill Everett?
Inks Allen Simon
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-4-08.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Sub-Mariner (Marvel, 2005 series) #2

1 page public service announcement "Remember Pearl Harbor!"

Characters Minute man
Synopsis PSA promoting the purchase of U.S. war bonds and stamps.
Genre fact
Letters typeset
Notes Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich 3-4-08.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Sub-Mariner (Marvel, 2005 series) #2

18 page The Sub-Mariner story "The Sub-Mariner Smashes an Uprising At Manila"

Characters The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; GA: Gen. Douglas MacArthur; I: Barney Devens, Gi-Gi; V: the Japanese.
Synopsis Sub-Mariner saves a survivor of a craft that sunk in Manila Bay and learns that his sister is a spy for the United States and is in danger of being captured by enemy forces in Manila.
Genre superhero
Pencils Syd Shores
Inks Allen Simon
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-4-08.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Sub-Mariner (Marvel, 2005 series) #2

2 page text story "Tight Spot"

Characters Robert Sutter; Captain Seeley
Synopsis Bobby Sutter is making his first training flight and disaster occurs, forcing him to land an airplane....a task he's never done before!
Genre adventure
Script Mickey Spillane (signed)
Pencils ? [title of story]
Inks ? [title of story]
Letters typeset
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-4-08. Reprint note for Primal Spillane from Arthur Lortie, August 2008.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Sub-Mariner (Marvel, 2005 series) #2; Primal Spillane: Early Stories 1941-1942 (Gryphon Books, 2004 series)

1 page Captain America's Sentinels of Liberty promo (ad from the publisher) "Don't Delay Another Second!"

Characters Captain America
Synopsis Promotional ad by Cap encouraging readers to join his Sentinels of Liberty.
Genre superhero
Notes Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich 3-4-08.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Sub-Mariner (Marvel, 2005 series) #2

20 page The Angel story "The House of Evil Dreams"

Characters The Angel; V: Hutsu (I); statue of Morpheus (the Sandman) figures in this story; Dorothy Ray.
Synopsis The Angel works hand-in-hand with a lovely U.S. counter-intelligence agent to battle a sleepwalking cult!
Genre superhero
Script Kermit Jaediker?
Pencils Al Gabriele
Inks Al Gabriele
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-4-08.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Sub-Mariner (Marvel, 2005 series) #2

2 page Pop's Woppers story

Characters Pop
Synopsis Pop successfully and by accident captures a group of criminals who escaped while being transferred to prison.
Genre humor
Script Art Gates (signed)
Pencils Art Gates (signed)
Inks Art Gates (signed)
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-4-08.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Sub-Mariner (Marvel, 2005 series) #2