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Your classic comic book conundrum: "Monsters of the Deep... or Doctor Vogar's Insane Machine!" The FrogMen - Issue No. 9, May-June 1964.

No new-fangled diving suits here - this outfit is more reminiscent of an earlier Jules Verne novel and bears little resemblance to some of the more fanciful gadgetry typical of other amateur mechanic magazines of the day. Science and Invention - March 1931 issue. Cover art by Santis.

All that metal that we're dumping in the oceans might really come back to harm us if Biff Bailey and the Sea Devils can't figure out a way to defeat the Magnetic Menace!! Sea Devils - Issue No. 12, August 1963. Cover art by Irv Novick and Jack Adler.

Aquatic adventure was a popular genre in the 1960's, with television shows like "Sea Hunt" and "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea," in addition to a host of sea-faring comic heroes like Tower Comics' Undersea Agent, Davy Jones. The "Undersea" acronym seemed a bit forced - United Nations Department of Experiment and Research Systems Established at Atlantis - but in a decade of rampant acronyms - SPECTRE, UNCLE, THRUSH, SHIELD, AIM, THUNDER, SPIDER, SWORD, WASP, etc. - I'm sure nobody cared. ;-) Undersea Agent - Issue No. 3, June 1966.

Dell Books No. 265 - Men Under The Sea by Frank Meier, 1948. Cover art by Gerald Gregg.