Data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license.

Issue Details

Issue #20
Published February 1960
Cover Price $0.10
Pages 36
Editing Pat Masulli (executive editor)
Notes Cover art, from top to bottom, taken from "The U.S.S. Ice Cube" story page 4 panel 1, "The Square Peg" story page 1 panel 1 (with retouching done on Lieutenant Weaver's face) and "The Undetected!" story page 3 panel 5. Index done on an incomplete copy. More information is needed between sequences 2 and 3.

Cover Details

Characters Lieutenant Shorty Weaver
Genre war
Pencils ?; Sam Glanzman; ? (retouches); ?
Inks ?; Sam Glanzman; ? (retouches); ?
Letters typeset; ?
Notes Cover art, from top to bottom, taken from "The U.S.S. Ice Cube" story page 4 panel 1, "The Square Peg" story page 1 panel 1 (with retouching done on Lieutenant Weaver's face) and "The Undetected!" story page 3 panel 5. Index done on an incomplete copy. More information is needed between sequences 2 and 3.

7 page Lieutenant Shorty Weaver story "The Square Peg"

Characters Captain Mike McGown; Lieutenant Jimmy "Shorty" Weaver; Rear Admiral Weaver (Lieutenant Shorty Weaver's father)
Synopsis Lieutenant Shorty Weaver dislikes submarine service, but his father needs his expertise at a base in 1942 Pearl Harbor. There he proves his worth, but Captain McGown doesn't like his attitude and so pushes him twice as hard as the others. One night, in an atoll, the Lieutenant torpedoes a Japanese ship and manages incredibly to escape from the other ships in the vicinity. This makes both the Lieutenant like his job and Captain McGown respect him.
Genre war
Pencils Sam Glanzman [as S.J.G.]
Inks Sam Glanzman [as S.J.G.]
Notes No writing credit.

6 page(?) story "The U.S.S. Ice Cube"

Characters U.S. submarine captain; Nazi supply ship captain
Synopsis Beyond Denmark, past the Arctic circle, a U.S. submarine pursues a Nazi sub tender. The ice holds both ships firm in their positions. The Nazis then decide to attack with men across the ice, but the Americans react and counterattack.
Genre war
Notes No credits. More information is needed on this sequence.

6 page Lieutenant Commander Perry Barra story "The Undetected!"

Characters Communist submarine captain; Lieutenant Commander Perry Barra (U.S. submarine skipper); U.S. frogmen [Barnes; Burt; Dana; O'Rell]
Synopsis Communist missile-launching subs are hidden in the ocean off U.S. shores in the event a war should erupt. Lieutenant Commander Perry Barra knows that it is useless for the U.S. government to denounce this and so sends frogmen to clog up a submarine and force it to surface. Having been revealed the Communist captain promises retribution, while the Lieutenant hopes that one day they'll be embarassed enough to not try it again.
Genre war
Notes No credits.

5 page story "The Admiral's Shadow"

Characters Admiral Hoku Shoma (Japanese); U.S. submarine captain; Jimmie (U.S. submariner)
Synopsis An American submarine travels under a Japanese convoy, directly beneath the admiral's flagship, hoping it won't be detected. It communicates the location of the convoy, but reveals itself. The sub manages to hang on until reinforcements arrive, that then destroy the convoy.
Genre war
Pencils Charles Nicholas
Inks Sal Trapani
Notes No writing credit.