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Issue: Sub-Mariner Comics #5
Publication Date: January 1942
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Issues: #5 of 32 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Timely Comics [buy bonds and stamps shield]
Indicia Publisher: Timely Comics, Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/13/1942
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 2.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Al Gabriele
Inker(s): George Klein
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Sub-Mariner
Character(s): Namor the Sub-Mariner; The Angel (inset); Japanese military
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In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Sub-Mariner #2 [Regular Edition] published August 2007
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Marvel at the world's greatest heroes in the most exciting adventures you've ever read!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee [as Lee] (signed)
Penciller(s): Bill King [as King] (signed)
Inker(s): Bill King [as King] (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Marvel Comics
Character(s): The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; the Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro; The Vision [Aarkus]; Jimmy Jupiter; The Angel; The Patriot; Terry Vance
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Sub-Mariner #2 [Regular Edition] published August 2007
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Promotional ad for Marvel Comics and its features.

Found on the inside front cover.

Lee and King signed this piece and are, most likely, two separate people. Bill King did such house ads from 1941-43 and Stan Lee wrote such ads during the same years.
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The Sub-Mariner Raps the Japs in the Pacific!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Everett ?
Inker(s): Allen Simon
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Sub-Mariner
Character(s): The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; GS: Folma, Harla; Jadda; Japanese (villains)
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.
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In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Sub-Mariner #2 [Regular Edition] published August 2007
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 20
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Remember Pearl Harbor!

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
Character(s): Minute man
Synopsis: PSA promoting the purchase of U.S. war bonds and stamps.
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In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Sub-Mariner #2 [Regular Edition] published August 2007
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Sub-Mariner Smashes an Uprising at Manila

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Syd Shores
Inker(s): Allen Simon
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Sub-Mariner
Character(s): The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; General Douglas MacArthur; Barney Devens (Introduction); Gi-Gi (Introduction); the Japanese (Villains)
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.
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In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Sub-Mariner #2 [Regular Edition] published August 2007
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 18
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Tight Spot

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Mickey Spillane (signed)
Penciller(s): ? [title of story]
Inker(s): ? [title of story]
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): 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!
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Sub-Mariner #2 [Regular Edition] published August 2007
Reprint Notes: in Primal Spillane: Early Stories 1941-1942 (Gryphon Books, 2004 series)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Don't Delay Another Second!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain America's Sentinels of Liberty
Character(s): Captain America
Synopsis: Promotional ad by Cap encouraging readers to join his Sentinels of Liberty.
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In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Sub-Mariner #2 [Regular Edition] published August 2007
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The House of Evil Dreams

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Kermit Jaediker ?
Penciller(s): Al Gabriele
Inker(s): Al Gabriele
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Angel
Character(s): The Angel; Hutsu (villain, introduction); Morpheus [The Sandman] (statue); Dorothy Ray
Synopsis: The Angel works hand-in-hand with a lovely U.S. counter-intelligence agent to battle a sleepwalking cult!
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In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Sub-Mariner #2 [Regular Edition] published August 2007
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 20
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Art Gates (signed)
Penciller(s): Art Gates (signed)
Inker(s): Art Gates (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Pop's Woppers
Character(s): Pop
Synopsis: Pop successfully and by accident captures a group of criminals who escaped while being transferred to prison.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Golden Age Sub-Mariner #2 [Regular Edition] published August 2007
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2

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