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| Publication | February 1960 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: quarterly |
| Notes | Cover art, from top to bottom, taken from "The U.S.S. Ice Cube" page 4, panel 1; "The Square Peg" page 1, panel 1 (with retouching done on Lieutenant Weaver's face) and "The Undetected!" page 3, panel 5. |
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| Featuring | Lieutenant Shorty Weaver & Lieutenant Commander Perry Barra |
| Credits | Pencils: Pat Masulli? (alterations) | Inks: Pat Masulli? (alterations) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Lieutenant Shorty Weaver |
| Notes | Cover art, from top to bottom, taken from "The U.S.S. Ice Cube" page 4, panel 1; "The Square Peg" page 1, panel 1 (with retouching done on Lieutenant Weaver's face) and "The Undetected!" page 3, panel 5. |
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| Comic Story | The Square Peg (7 pages) |
| 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. |
| Featuring | Lieutenant Shorty Weaver |
| Credits | Pencils: Sam Glanzman [as S. J. G.] (signed) | Inks: Sam Glanzman [as S. J. G.] (signed) | Job #: 5929 |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Captain Mike McGown; Lieutenant Jimmy "Shorty" Weaver; Rear Admiral Weaver (Lieutenant Shorty Weaver's father) |
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| Comic Story | The U.S.S. Ice Cube (7 pages) |
| 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. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset | Job #: 5928 |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: U.S. submarine captain; Nazi supply ship captain |
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| Text Story | Forward (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: War |
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| Comic Story | The Undetected! (6 pages) |
| 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 embarrassed enough to not try it again. |
| Featuring | Lieutenant Commander Perry Barra |
| Credits | Letters: typeset | Job #: 5926 |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Communist submarine captain; Lieutenant Commander Perry Barra (U.S. submarine skipper); U.S. frogmen [Barnes; Burt; Dana; O'Rell] |
| Notes | Credits per Nick Caputo, December 2015. |
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| Comic Story | The Admiral's Shadow (5 pages) |
| 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. |
| Credits | Pencils: Charles Nicholas (signed) | Letters: typeset | Job #: 5927 |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Admiral Hoku Shoma (Japanese); U.S. submarine captain; Jimmie (U.S. submariner) |
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