Sub-Mariner #16 : SuperMegaMonkey : chronocomic

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Issue(s): Sub-Mariner #16
Cover Date: Aug 69
Title: "The sea that time forgot!"
Credits:
Roy Thomas - Writer
Marie Severin - Penciler
Mike Esposito - Inker

Review/plot:
An Atlantean ship has pursued Tiger Shark to a sargasso/ship graveyard area that is the home to sailors from all eras of time.

Since all but one of the Atlantean crew (the survivor's name is Thakos) was destroyed approaching the area...

...Namor investigates personally, fights Tiger Shark for a bit...

...and then allows Tiger Shark to lead the ghosts out of the sargasso, where they suddenly age to their natural chronological age, which kills all of them except (sliding timescale problem alert!) some German sailors who become very old but not old enough to die.

The Germans also have a torpedo that contains a virus that they intended to deploy against the United States, but Dr. Walter Newell is on the scene.

Newell seemingly dies stopping the torpedo.

Vashti and Namor seemed to be aware of the sargasso area...

...and had some agreement with the ghosts that they shouldn't be bothering anyone. Not all of the ghosts try to leave with Tiger Shark.

Quality Rating: C-

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: The MCP places Hulk #118, which features Namor and several other Atlanteans, after this issue.

References:

Namor last fought Tiger Shark in Sub-Mariner #5-6.
Dr. Newell was last seen in Tales To Astonish #95.

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A

Inbound References (4): show

Characters Appearing: Ikthon, Lady Dorma, Stingray, Sub-Mariner, Thakos, Tiger Shark, Vashti

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Comments

Joe Gaudioso was one of Mike Esposito's pseudonyms.

Posted by: haydn | July 18, 2013 12:13 AM

Gee, it's nice of Thakos to (inadvertently) find Tiger Shark, considering that Namor couldn't be arsed to look for him, huh?

Posted by: Dan Spector | July 9, 2014 2:37 AM

The panel above has the German submariners say they have aged fifty years. So they are not Nazis, but from the First World War.

Posted by: Bernard the Poet | September 30, 2017 9:52 AM

Thanks Bernard. Maybe i was subconsciously making some sliding timescale adjustments. ;-)

Posted by: fnord12 | October 2, 2017 2:18 PM

The story's title looks like a take on Edgar Rice Burroughs' "The Land That Time Forgot" and "The People That Time Forgot".

Posted by: Brian Coffey | June 22, 2018 9:27 PM

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