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WHAT IF: Sub-Mariner Comics Vol. 6

Map by Chris Leazer: reprints Sub-Mariner Comics #27-32, Namora #1-3 (254 pages)

NOTE FROM GORMUU: This volume would finish up the line of Golden Age Sub-Mariner Masterworks by reprinting the last six issues of his title before it was cancelled in 1949, plus Namora #1-3, the only three issues of the Sub-Mariner spinoff title. The 1950s Atlas Era Sub-Mariner stories are currently being reprinted in the Atlas Era Heroes Masterworks line.


August/48: Sub-Mariner Comics #27 (28 pages + cover)
Cover Credits: Ken Bald (penciler); Bob Powell? (inker)
  • Sub-Mariner 

  • "The Case of the Frantic Fisherman" (10 pages)
    Credits: Bill Everett (writer); Bill Everett (pencils); Bill Everett (inker)
     
  • Blonde Phantom

  • "Back From the Past" (8 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (writer); Mike Sekowsky (pencils); Mike Sekowsky (inks)
     
  • story

  • "Only The Beginning" (2 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (writer); Al Gabriele (pencils); Al Gabriele (inks)
     
  • Sub-Mariner

  • "Monument To Murder" (8 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (writer); Ken Bald (pencils); Mike Sekowsky (inks)

October/48: Sub-Mariner Comics #28 (27 pages + cover)
Cover Credits: Ken Bald? (penciler); Bob Powell? (inker)
  • Sub-Mariner 

  • "A Case of King's Ransom" (12 pages)
    Credits: Bill Everett (writer); Bill Everett (penciler); Bill Everett (inker)
     
  • Sub-Mariner

  • "Kids! Kids! Kids!" (4 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (writer); Mike Sekowsky (penciler); Mike Sekowsky (inker)
     
  • Blonde Phantom

  • "The Test of Fear" (6 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (writer); Charles Nicholas (pencils); Charles Nicholas (inks)
     
  • Sub-Mariner

  • "Crime Makes the Writer" (5 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (writer); Al Gabriele (pencils); Al Gabriele (inks)

December/48: Sub-Mariner Comics #29 (27 pages + cover)
Cover Credits: Ken Bald (penciler); Al Gabriele? (inker)
  • Sub-Mariner 

  • "The Mystery of the Pirate's Cove" (8 pages)
    Credits: Bill Everett (writer); Bill Everett (penciler); Bill Everett (inker)
     
  • Sub-Mariner

  • "The Deadly Game of Captain Black" (8 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (writer); Syd Shores (penciler); Syd Shores (inker)
     
  • Human Torch

  • "The Flame That Wouldn't Die" (6 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (writer); Charles Nicholas (pencils); Charles Nicholas (inks)
     
  • Sub-Mariner

  • "The Professor and the Mermaid" (5 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (writer); Ken Bald (penciler); Al Gabriele (inker)

February/49: Sub-Mariner Comics #30 (22 pages + cover)
Cover Credits: Al Gabriele (penciler); Charles Nicholas (inker)
  • Sub-Mariner 

  • "Doom From the Sun" (10 pages)
    Credits: Bill Everett (writer); Bill Everett (penciler); Bill Everett (inker)
     
  • Sub-Mariner

  • "Slaves Under the Sea" (6 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (writer); Syd Shores (pencils); Gustav Schrotter (inks)
     
  • Let's Play Detective

  • "The Running Killer" (1 page)
    Credits: Unknown (writer); Al Gabriele (penciler); Al Gabriele (inker)
     
  • Blonde Phantom

  • "Studio of Terror" (5 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (writer); Charles Nicholas (penciler); Charles Nicholas (inker)

April/49: Sub-Mariner Comics #31 (27 pages + cover) 
Cover Credits: Gustav Schrotter (penciler); Gustav Schrotter (inker)
  • Sub-Mariner 

  • "The Man Who Grew" (7 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (writer); Al Gabriele (pencils); Al Gabriele (inks)
     
  • Sub-Mariner

  • "The Lost Land" (4 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (writer); Charles Nicholas (pencils); Charles Nicholas (inks)
     
  • Sub-Mariner

  • "The Sea Wolf" (6 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (writer); Mike Sekowsky (pencils); Mike Sekowsky (inks)
     
  • Captain America

  • "[The Hypnotist of Horror]" (2 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (writer); Al Gabriele (pencils); Al Gabriele (inks)
     
  • Sub-Mariner

  • "The Drink of Death" (8 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (writer); Al Gabriele (pencils); Syd Shores (inks)

June/49: Sub-Mariner Comics #32 (27 pages + cover) 
Cover Credits: Bill Everett (penciler); Bill Everett (inker)
  • Sub-Mariner 

  • "Birth of Sub-Mariner" (12 pages)
    Credits: Bill Everett (writer); Bill Everett (pencils); Bill Everett (inks)
     
  • text story

  • "Clue In Sepia" (2 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (writer)
     
  • Let's Play Detective

  • "Wheels of Death" (1 page)
    Credits: Unknown (writer); Al Bellman (pencils); Al Bellman (inks)
     
  • Sub-Mariner

  • "Peril In New York" (12 pages)
    Credits: Bill Everett (writer); Bill Everett (pencils); Bill Everett (inks)

August/48: Namora #1 (32 pages + cover)
Cover Credits: Ken Bald (pencils); Ken Bald (inks)
  • Namora 

  • "The Lost City of Yucatan" (10 pages)
    Credits: Bill Everett (script); Bill Everett (pencils); Bill Everett (inks)
     
  • Sub-Mariner

  • "The Kingdom Beneath the Sea" (10 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script); Syd Shores (pencils); Syd Shores (inks)
     
  • text story

  • "Page the Murderer" (2 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script)
     
  • Namora 

  • "Shadow Over Shanghai" (10 pages)
    Credits: Bill Everett (script); Bill Everett (pencils); Bill Everett (inks)

October/48: Namora #2 (28 pages + cover) 
Cover Credits: Ken Bald (pencils); Ken Bald (inks)
  • Namora 

  • "Terror In Turkey" (10 pages)
    Credits: Bill Everett (script); Bill Everett (pencils); Bill Everett (inks)
     
  • Blonde Phantom

  • "Curtain Call For Crime" (4 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script); Mike Sekowsky (pencils); Charles Nicholas? (inks)
     
  • Namora

  • "Doomed In the Desert" (10 pages)
    Credits: Bill Everett (script); Bill Everett (pencils); Bill Everett (inks)
     
  • Sub-Mariner

  • "Dressed To Kill" (4 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script); Ken Bald (pencils); Ken Bald (inks)

December/48: Namora #3 (25 pages + cover) 
Cover Credits: Ken Bald (pencils); Ken Bald (inks)
  • Namora 

  • "The Mystery of the Sleeping Ship" (8 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script); Ken Bald (pencils); Mike Sekowsky (inks)
     
  • Sub-Mariner

  • "The Last of the Vikings" (6 pages)
    Credits: Bill Everett (script); Bill Everett (pencils); Bill Everett (inks)
     
  • Sub-Mariner, Namora

  • "Some Fish Story" (2 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script); Mike Sekowsky (pencils); Mike Sekowsky (inks)
     
  • Namora

  • "Terror Rides the Waves" (9 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script); Mike Sekowsky (pencils); Al Gabriele (inks)

Mockup image by: David Spofforth

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