Sea Devils #17

In "The Impossible Maritime Menaces, Chapter 1," Sea Devils face a crisis when Dane bolts from the team after they dismiss his claims of a strange encounter at sea. Soon after, he stumbles upon a shocking truth: alien visitors are planning to auction off Earth to other interstellar buyers, using a hallucination ray that left him with a fractured perception of reality. Written by Arnold Drake and illustrated by Howard Purcell with inks by Sheldon Moldoff, this issue features a cover by Howard Purcell, capturing the eerie tension of a world on the brink—seen through the eyes of a man who knows too much.