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Issue: Sub-Mariner #38
Publication Date: June 1971
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Issues: #38 of 72 Issues (130 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Magazine Management Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/02/1971
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 20 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1971 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress with a correction factor of plus 28 days.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched; squarebound (#43)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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reprinted as/ in another Issue.
reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.
Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:
FlagI Fantastici Quattro #99 published January 1975 as Agonia di Namor! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Some/all of Issue reprinted as/in 2 other Issues:
FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Sub-Mariner #5 [unnamed variant] published January 2014
FlagNamor, the Sub-Mariner Epic Collection #4 published January 2024
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Sub-Mariner
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagI Fantastici Quattro #99 published January 1975
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Possible Andru pencils per Nick Caputo, March 2018. Nick notes background figures look like Andru's style and the cover was likely based on a cover preliminary by Marie Severin, who performed that task for most cover artists in this period.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: Famous name prizes or cash the easy way!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad soliciting people to sell greetings cards.
Inside front cover
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Namor Agonistes!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Sub-Mariner [Namor McKenzie] (origin retold with new details); Lady Dorma (corpse); Karthon; Lord Vashti; Qua-Ron; Qua-Ron’s mother; Tha-Korr (flashback); Princess Fen (flashback); Mr. Blake (the sailor who discovered Fen on board the Oracle, flashback); Captain Leonard Mckenzie (flashback); Betty Dean (flashback); Invisible Girl [Sue Storm] (cameo flashback); Attuma (on monitor, cameo flashback); Ikthon (flashback); Llyra (cameo flashback)
Synopsis: The recent death of his beloved Dorma moves Namor to reflect on his tumultuous life and the many misfortunes that have befallen his undersea realm. Following Dorma’s internment, Namor publicly abdicates his throne and forsakes Atlantis.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagI Fantastici Quattro #99 published January 1975
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 19
Disclose Notes: Roy Thomas added a note in the credits: "This story owes an enormous debt to and is hereby dedicated to Bill Everett, first writer/artist of the Sub-Mariner."

Sub-Mariner abdicates his throne until #60, leaves Atlantis until #58

The title is an allusion to "Samson Agonistes" by John Milton.

This issue has 20 numbered pages with pages 12 and 13 being half pages.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photograph)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: Look, fellows!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad solicits boys to sell GRIT magazine. Between story pages 3 and 4.
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In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (promo copy)
Colorist(s): ? (panel backgrounds only)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.4
Disclose Notes: Between story pages 6 and 7 on upper portion of page.
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Super Poster Offer

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (promo copy)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Marvelmania
Character(s): Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Invisible Girl; Thing]; Black Knight; Aragorn; Silver Surfer; Galactus; Thor
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.6
Disclose Notes: House advertisement for posters of Fantastic Four, the Black Knight, Silver Surfer and Galactus, and Thor, with a subscription to Marvelmania also included. Appears between story pages 6 and 7 on lower portion of page.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ? (photos)
Inker(s): ? (photos)
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Arnold Schwarzenegger (photo); Joe Weider (photo)
First Line: I put 2 full inches on my arms - 3 inches on my chest and trimmed 4 inches off my waist in just 7 weeks...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for the "Weider System" of body building between story pages 6 and 7.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: These 3 big drafting kits* given to you!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Advertisement for high paying jobs in the drafting field.
Between story pages 9 and 10.
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Shop By Mail

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: Free! Powerful muscles fast!
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Miscellaneous ads from various dealers. Includes ads for back-issue comics.
Beneath story half-page numbered 12.
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Shop By Mail

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Colorist(s): ? (panel background only)
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: We buy & sell comic books.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Miscellaneous ads from various dealers. Includes ads for back-issue comics.
Beneath story half-page numbered 13.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ? (Coupon border only)
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: Step into the real world of space with Vern Estes.
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Ad for model rocketry kits. Between pages 15 and 16 of story on top half of page.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Colorist(s): ? (panel background only)
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: America’s most amusing pet squirrel monkey
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Miscellaneous ads from various dealers. Includes an ad for back-issue comics.
Beneath story pages numbered 15 and 16 on lower half of page.
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Shop By Mail

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: Free facts on how to become a game warden
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Miscellaneous ads from various dealers. Includes an ad for back-issue comics.
Between story pages numbered 18 and 19.
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In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (promo copy)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Hints of hilarious hi-jinx and homogeneous happenings happily harvested for heroes like you!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Includes: Stan Lee's Soapbox; Items.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photograph)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
First Line: Muscles of steel
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Sold by Honor House Products.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.6
Disclose Notes: Letters from: Paul Sanford, Wilson Fong, Eddie Christopher, Mike Towry, Spence Marshall.
Includes “Know Ye These, the Hallowed Ranks of Marveldom.”
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (promo copy)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: At last!! The most eagerly-awaited even in comics history!
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Pages: 0.4
Disclose Notes: House ad for Thor (Marvel, 1966 Series) #188.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: Second chance for high school drop-outs to get a diploma
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Pages: 1
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ? (photographs)
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: Power-packed muscles in only 35 days!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for booklet from Margrace Corporation.
Inside back cover.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: Make money get prizes with fast selling American seeds
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for selling vegetable and flower seeds for the American Seed Co., in exchange for prizes or money. Three children with quotes endorsing this enterprise, seen in black and white photos. Color ad on back cover.

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