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Issue Details

Issue #3
Published January-February 1962
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Robert Kanigher
Notes Note 1: Script, pencils and inks credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records dated 01/1962, provided by DC Comics. Note 2: Arrival date: 14 November 1962 (Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005)

Cover Details

Genre adventure
Pencils Russ Heath
Inks Jack Adler

12 page Sea Devils story "Underwater Crime Wave"

Genre adventure
Script Robert Kanigher
Pencils Russ Heath
Inks Russ Heath
Notes No script, pencils and inks credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records dated 01/1962, provided by DC Comics

1 page story "Sea Devils Battle Diary"

Script Bob Haney
Pencils Jack Abel
Inks Jack Abel
Notes Note 1: Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005. Note 2: Pencils/inks both previously credited to Russ Heath. Jack Abel credited by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005. (Per Sandell ed. on both notes)

1 page Peter Porkchops [public service page] public service announcement "The Secret of the Happy Pig!"

Genre funny animal
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Rube Grossman
Inks Rube Grossman
Letters Ira Schnapp

13 page Sea Devils story "The Ghost of the Deep!"

Characters The Sea Devils (Dane Dorrance; Judy; Biff; Nicky); Circe Smith; Circe (from mytholgy)
Synopsis After watching a singer named Circe SMith at a nightclub, the Sea Devils appear to meat the mythological Circe during their next dive. She puts the male members into a contest and Dane abandons his oxygen tank, and when Judy tries to save him by sacrificing herself it jolts the boys out of their spell to save her.
Genre adventure
Script Bob Haney; Robert Kanigher ?
Pencils Russ Heath (signed)
Inks Russ Heath (signed)
Notes Story credited to Robert Kanigher in Action Comics #443. This story could be explained as a nitrogen narcosis-induced dream of Judy's instead of a real adventure, as the male members have no memory of the adventure at the end of the story. No script, pencils and inks credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records dated 01/1962, provided by DC Comics
Reprinted in Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #443 (January 1975)