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WHAT IF: Sub-Mariner Comics Vol. 6

Map by Chris Leazer: reprints Sub-Mariner Comics #25-33 (244 pages)

*** NOTE FROM GORMUU:*** The inclusion of Sub-Mariner #33 in this volume and the inclusion of the remainder of Sub-Mariner's mid-50s Timely revival run in a possible GA Sub-Mariner Vol. 7 is meant to show what Marvel could do if they wanted to connect the 40's era Sub-Mariner with the mid-50's shortlived revival of Sub-Mariner withing the same Masterworks line. Steve Rogers has imagined a Masterworks line in which the totality of the Timely Revival comics are compiled inside of its own line (see the Timely Revival What If? maps.) If this Timely Revival Masterworks were to occur, then it's possible the Golden Age Sub-Mariner Masterworks line would end with issue #32 and Masterworks Vol. 6.

Spring/48: Sub-Mariner Comics #25 (27 pages + cover)
Cover Credits: Mike Sekowsky? (penciler); Syd Shores? (inker)

  • Sub-Mariner 

  • "Firebrand, the Scourge of the Pacific" (12 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (script); Ken Bald (pencils); Ken Bald (inks)
     
  • text story

  • "One Way Ticket" (2 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (writer)
     
  • Sub-Mariner

  • "Murder Through The Mind" (8 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (writer); Unknown (pencils); Unknown (inks)
     
  • Blonde Phantom 

  • "You Can't Get Away With Murder" (5 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (writer); Unknown (penciler); Unknown (inker)

June/48: Sub-Mariner Comics #26 (25 pages + cover) 
Cover Credits: Syd Shores (penciler); Syd Shores (inker)
  • Sub-Mariner 

  • "Murder Motor Mart" (10 pages)
    Credits: Bill Everett (writer); Bill Everett (penciler); Bill Everett (inker)
     
  • Blonde Phantom

  • "Framed For Crime" (5 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (writer); Mike Sekowsky (penciler); Mike Sekowsky (inker)
     
  • Sub-Mariner

  • "Terror In the Lost Colony" (10 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (writer); Bob Powell (pencils); Ken Bald (inks)

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)

April/54: Sub-Mariner Comics #33 (25 pages + cover) 
Cover Credits: Bill Everett (penciler); Bill Everett (inker)
  • Sub-Mariner 

  • "The Origin of the Sub-Mariner" (8 pages)
    Credits: Bill Everett (writer); Bill Everett (pencils); Bill Everett (inks); Bill Everett (letters)
     
  • Sub-Mariner

  • "Let Sleeping Dogs Lie" (4 pages)
    Credits: Bill Everett (writer); Bill Everett (pencils); Bill Everett (inks); Bill Everett (letters)
     
  • text story

  • "The Beacon Sprite" (2 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (writer)
     
  • Human Torch

  • "[The Flying Saucer Invasion]" (5 pages)
    Credits: Unknown (writer); Dick Ayers (penciler); Dick Ayers (inks)
     
  • Sub-Mariner

  • "[King Crocodile]" (6 pages)
    Credits: Bill Everett (writer); Bill Everett (pencils); Bill Everett (inks); Bill Everett (letters)

Mockup image by: David Spofforth

       
           

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