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Issue Details

Issue #2
Published March 1972
Cover Price 0.20 USD
Pages 36
Editing Sal Gentile

Cover Details

Characters Primus [Carter Primus]
Genre adventure
Pencils ? (photograph)
Inks ? (photograph)
Colors ? (photograph)

16 page Primus story "Where Killers Meet"

Characters Primus [Carter Primus]
Synopsis Carter Primus in the Ross Sea testing new heated scuba gear or the U.S. Navy and subsequently being attacked by a sperm whale. He sends a message to his partners aboard his boat Inca, Charlie Whitman and Toni, who find themselves surrounded by whaling ships. A woman diver goes to assist Primus who is suffering from a crashing sonic wave emanating from the ships. She leads him up and he meets Adam Karkel, a man intent on hunting and killing the whales for the products they will yield. Charlie and Toni escape due to a fog while Primus is imprisoned aboard the ship. His female savior, named Magda explains the plan of Karkel and his partner Ludkin, an oceanographer, which is to harvest as many of the protected sperm whales as they can. Karkel appears and Primus lures him close to the cell and knocks him out and takes the keys. He and Magda escape in scuba gear and come under fire. Meanwhile Charlie and Toni have returned pick up Magda and then following orders leave Primus to plant small bombs on the propellers of whale killer ships. He does this despite being attacked by a herd of whales driven mad by the sonic device of Ludkin. Primus survives, disables the fleet, and gets his kiss from the grateful Magda much to Toni's chagrin. Synopsis by Dean Webb
Genre adventure
Script Joe Gill (signed)
Pencils Joe Staton (signed)
Inks Joe Staton (signed)

1 page Human Fish text story "Red Tide!"

Characters Human Fish [John Willmore]
Synopsis John Willmore, a man born with both gills and lungs finds his way to the Gulf of Mexico where red organisms are choking out the normal chain of life. He finds the source, a strange coral and uses flame throwers supplied by the military to destroy the the source, thus cleansing the sea. Synopsis by Dean Webb
Genre adventure
Letters typeset

8 page Primus story "East of Aden"

Characters Primus [Carter Primus]
Synopsis Synopsis by Dean Webb begins with Primus fighting a crocodile in the Gulf of Aden. He wires the beast's jaws shut and goes topside to find out from Toni that the local sheik demands his presence. Primus find Shiek Al Habim, an insufferable man, aboard his yacht when there is an explosion sending it and its wealth to the bottom. Primus is contracted to retrieve the riches but encounters many others, the poor robbed of their fair share of Habim's wealth already raiding the boat. Primus is moved by their fate and assists them which ultimately leads to Habim being deposed and replaced as leader by a much fairer government. Primus spends his last panel luxuriating in a harem of grateful ladies.
Genre adventure
Script Joe Gill
Pencils Joe Staton
Inks Joe Staton