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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published Winter 1941
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Joe Simon ?

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Alex Schomburg
Inks Alex Schomburg
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Sub-Mariner (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (2005)

20 page Sub-Mariner story "Murders By Ghost Light"

Characters V: The Gleaming Ghost (I; Dr. Howard); I: Ruth Prentiss
Synopsis Sub-Mariner comes across an island hospital where a doctor is haunting the patients attempting to devalue the property so that he can buy it for a song and then announce that the ghost sitings were just pranks.
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Fagaly
Notes Inks credits originally given to Mike Sekowsky in error (per Tony Isabella, March 30, 2006)
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Sub-Mariner (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (2005)

18 page Sub-Mariner story "The Horror That Walked"

Characters V: The Horror (I, D: Dacio)
Genre superhero
Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Al Gabriele
Notes story influenced by Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Sub-Mariner (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (2005)

2 page text story "Fresh Meat For a Raider"

Script Mickey Spillane
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Sub-Mariner (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (2005); Primal Spillane: Early Stories 1941-1942 (Gryphon Books, 2004 series)

2 page Pop's Woppers story

Genre humor
Script Art Gates
Pencils Art Gates
Inks Art Gates
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Sub-Mariner (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (2005)

20 page Angel story "Death's Merry-Go-Round!"

Characters V: Robert Goom (I)
Genre superhero
Pencils Paul Gustavson
Inks Al Gabriele
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Sub-Mariner (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (2005)

1 page Dr. Dimwit story "Tonsil Trouble"

Characters I: Dr. Dimwit
Genre humor
Script Basil Wolverton
Pencils Basil Wolverton
Inks Basil Wolverton
Letters Basil Wolverton
Reprinted in Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Comics, A (Smithsonian Institution / Harry N Abrams, 1981 series) #nn; in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Sub-Mariner (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (2005)