Sub-Mariner #35

From the cold-war-charged pages of Atlas Comics' 1954 lineup comes Sub-Mariner #35, its cover — penciled and inked by Sol Brodsky and Carl Burgos — delivering a vivid undersea confrontation. Namor, knife in hand, battles a massive green sea creature while Soviet soldiers level their weapons at him from the porthole of a hammer-and-sickle-emblazoned submarine lurking just behind. With the bold tagline "Scourge of the Sea!" overhead and Bill Everett handling the interior story "Invasion!" in its entirety, this issue captures the Prince of Atlantis at his fiercest, caught between the dangers of the deep and Cold War hostility.