Four Color #994

Lloyd Bridges strides forward in full diving gear — wetsuit, scuba equipment, and speargun in hand — looking every bit the determined underwater adventurer on this 1959 Dell cover. The cover blurb sets the stakes perfectly: Mike Nelson is up against modern-day pirates with their eyes on Treasure Reef. Dan Spiegle brings the same confident linework to the interior as to the adaptation of this popular TV series, making it a fine snapshot of late-1950s adventure comics at their most sharply focused.