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Issue Details

Issue #8
Published Winter 1942
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing Al Fago?

Cover Details

Characters The Sub-Mariner
Genre superhero
Pencils Alex Schomburg
Inks Alex Schomburg
Letters typeset; Alex Schomburg (on the art)
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Sub-Mariner (Marvel, 2005 series) #2

1 page U.S. Savings Stamps promo (ad from the publisher)

Synopsis Printing of a letter from U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, Jr. to the kids of America, asking them to buy savings stamps.
Genre fact
Pencils ? [Minuteman figure]
Inks ? [Minuteman figure]
Letters mostly typeset
Notes Found on the inside front cover. Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich 3-8-08.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Sub-Mariner (Marvel, 2005 series) #2

20 page Sub-Mariner story "The Mystery of the Knife"

Characters The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; V: The Knife (I; Sgt. Howard); Ritten.
Synopsis The murder of a lighthouse keeper leads the Sub-Mariner into joining the USMC at Parris Island to uncover the purpetrator.
Genre superhero
Pencils Carl Pfeufer
Inks Carl Pfeufer
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-8-08.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Sub-Mariner (Marvel, 2005 series) #2

1 page Human Torch Comics promo (ad from the publisher) "They're At It Again!"

Characters The Human Torch; Sub-Mariner; Jimmy Jupiter.
Synopsis Illustrated promotional ad for Human Torch Comics #10, featuring the 45-page battle between the Torch and Sub-Mariner.
Genre superhero
Notes Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich 3-8-08.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Sub-Mariner (Marvel, 2005 series) #2

18 page The Sub-Mariner story "The Setting of the Rising Sun"

Characters The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; V: Dr. Suki (I).
Synopsis The shooting down of a U.S. blimp, still loaded with its instruments, becomes the target of the Japanese, so Sub-Mariner decides to hide them, then uncover the reason why this happened: a fiendish Japanese doctor is turning U.S. soldiers into zombies.
Genre superhero
Pencils Carl Pfeufer
Inks Carl Pfeufer
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-8-08.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Sub-Mariner (Marvel, 2005 series) #2

2 page text story "Tommy's Taken For a Ride"

Characters Pvt. Tommy Bronson; Uncle Pete; Dorothy; Villains: Butch and Hank.
Synopsis Tommy's on furlough from the Army and is heading home with money for his Mother. However, when he accepts a ride from two strangers, Tommy and his money are soon parted.
Genre adventure
Letters ?; most typeset
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-8-08.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Sub-Mariner (Marvel, 2005 series) #2

2 page Tubby and Tack filler

Characters Tubby; Tack.
Synopsis Two separate stories: in the first, the boys are looking forward to the day because it's Saturday and there is no school. But Mom has other ideas as to what the boys will be doing most of the day. In the 2nd, the boys borrow a dollar from Dad to buy defense stamps, with unusual effects.
Genre humor
Script Ray Houlihan (signed)
Pencils Ray Houlihan (signed)
Inks Ray Houlihan (signed)
Notes Page count corrected by Craig Delich 10-20-07. Synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-8-08.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Sub-Mariner (Marvel, 2005 series) #2

20 page The Angel story "Genius For Murder"

Characters The Angel; V: The White Carnation (I, D; Caleb Crane).
Synopsis When writer Caleb Crane gets a rejection notice from a publisher, lambasting him for not having sufficient knowledge about his topic of crime, Crane decides to obtain that knowledge by committing crimes, then writing about them.
Genre superhero
Script Kermit Jaediker (signed as Jaediker)
Pencils Gustav Schrotter (signed as Schrotter)
Inks Gustav Schrotter (signed as Schrotter)
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-8-08.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Sub-Mariner (Marvel, 2005 series) #2

1 page Tubby and Tack filler

Characters Tubby; Tack.
Synopsis Tubby and Tack, having the day off from school, get up early to round up the fellas for some fun...but they find all of them still in bed!
Genre humor
Script Ray Houlihan (signed)
Pencils Ray Houlihan (signed)
Inks Ray Houlihan (signed)
Notes Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich 10-20-07.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Sub-Mariner (Marvel, 2005 series) #2