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Issue: Sub-Mariner #39
Publication Date: July 1971
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Issues: #39 of 72 Issues (130 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Magazine Management Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/06/1971
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 calculated from on-sale dates of preceding and succeeding issues.
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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.
Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:
FlagI Fantastici Quattro #101 published February 1975 as ...E qui resterò! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Some/all of Issue reprinted as/in 2 other Issues:
FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Sub-Mariner #6 [unnamed variant] published January 2015
FlagNamor, the Sub-Mariner Epic Collection #4 published January 2024
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Sub-Mariner [Namor]
First Line: I warned the surface world -- not to attack me!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ? (photographs)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Another Joe Weider breakthrough: the end of the skinny body.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Ad for a weight gain product.
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And Here I'll Stand

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Sub-Mariner [Namor McKenzie]; Lady Dorma (flashback); Llyra (flashback); Harbor Police [Captain Hart; Bill (policeman); Irv (helicopter pilot)] Willie Wonder (radio host); Diane Arliss; John Lindsay (Mayor of New York); Captain Lunt (USAF); Walter Newell [Stingray]
Synopsis: Namor heads to the surface world to search for Llyra and connect with his human heritage. In New York, the former prince turns the abandoned Prison Island into his home, which quickly draws the ire of the city. After skirmishes with the harbor police and National Guard, officials elect to destroy the island. Diane tells Namor that his father may be alive.
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In Issue: FlagI Fantastici Quattro #101 published February 1975
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 19
Job Number: 572-Z
Disclose Notes: Continued in Daredevil (Marvel, 1964 series) #77 (June 1971).

Possibly inspired by the IOAT Occupation of Alcatraz (November 20, 1969 – June 11, 1971).

This issue has 20 numbered pages with pages 12 and 13 being half pages.
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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ? (coupon border only)
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
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 3 and 4 of story. Top half of page.
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Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: Boys here's a swell way to make $1 to $6 weekly
Synopsis: Ad for sales people to sell Grit newspapers.
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Between pages 3 and 4 of story, on lower half of page
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In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (promo copy)
Colorist(s): ? (background only)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.4
Disclose Notes: Between story pages 6 and 7 on top portion of page.
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Official Marvel Stationery

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.6
Disclose Notes: Ad for paper and envelopes with Marvel characters from Marvelmania.
Between story pages 6 and 7 on lower half of page.
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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ? (photographs)
Letterer(s): typeset
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 6 and 7.
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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Guitarist; pretty girl
First Line: Play Guitar in 7 Days
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Thumbnail advertisements between story pages 9 and 10.
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Subject Matter
First Line: Collect coins.. the hobby road to riches
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Bottom page ad for collectible coins, beneath story half-page numbered 12.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: 80 dials, switches and gauges from the latest jet aircraft and the Americas Cup racing boats!
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Bottom page ad for stickers representing dials from instrument panels on aircraft and boats, beneath story half-page numbered 13.
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Shop By Mail

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Colorist(s): ? (panel backgrounds and lettering only)
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: Don’t be fat
Synopsis: Miscellaneous ads from various dealers. Includes comics ads from Grand Book Inc. and Brian Laurence.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Between story pages numbered 15 and 16.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ? (photographs)
Colorist(s): ? (background and lettering only)
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: Now...save almost 50% on the hit records you want!
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Ad for Columbia Record Club. Some text is in yellow.
Appears between story pages numbered 18 and 19.
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In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ? (panel backgrounds only)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Funky facts and freaky fables, from the fickle finger of Forbush!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Includes: Items; Stan's Soapbox.
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Shop by Mail

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Colorist(s): ? (panel backgrounds only)
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: Market place
Synopsis: Miscellaneous ads from various dealers. Includes comics ads from Comic Sales Co., Howard M. Rogofsky, Passaic Book Center & Robert Bell.
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Pages: 1
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1.6
Disclose Notes: Letters from: Samual P. Schraeger, Brett Bakker, Bill Labrie, and Mark Radka.
Includes “Know Ye These, the Hallowed Ranks of Marveldom.”
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First Line: This is the Big One!
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Pages: 0.4
Disclose Notes: House ad for Captain America (Marvel, 1968 Series) #139.
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: If you like to draw for fun, we can help you draw for money.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for the Famous Artists School.
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: 3 complete fishing outfits
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover. Ad for fishing equipment.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Second chance for high school drop-outs to get a diploma
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Ad for the Academy for Home Study.

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