Sub-Mariner Comics #18

This Winter 1945 issue of Sub-Mariner Comics puts Namor front and center in a tangle of underwater chaos, as the bare-chested Atlantean prince tears through a group of heavily armored deep-sea divers, their hoses and chains whipping through the water around them. Alex Schomburg's cover art crackles with kinetic energy — multiple divers converge on Namor from every angle, yet he remains utterly unfazed, a small inset portrait of him in costume anchoring the lower corner. With interior art by Allen Simon and the evocatively titled story "The Fantasy of Hate," this is a ten-cent wartime package that delivers real punch.