Primus #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"Double Dealers!" kicks off Primus #1 (1972) with a splashy tale of greed, ego, and underwater chaos. When super-rich actors Elizabeth Ryan and Richard Howden bet on retrieving a lost diamond ring from a sunken boat, Primus dives in—only to face off against rival treasure hunters and a monstrous shark. Written by Joe Gill and illustrated by Joe Staton, with letters by Charlotte Jetter, the cover by Joe Staton captures the high-stakes drama of a 60-cent comic in 1972.
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Elizabeth Ryan and Richard Howden are super-rich and notoriously tempestuous actors. Elizabeth throws her million-dollar ring off the boat in a huff and Primus dives to it when Richard says he'll give $100,000 to charity for the effort. But a shark stops his attempt and Primus has the captain mark the spot. News of the ring's fate has reached shore and other fortune hunters show up. Primus battes them and a really big shark (which he blows up) and snags the ring, a fake and Elizabeth had known all along. Richard throws her into the water but all is forgiven in the final panel.
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