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