Submarine Attack #36

Jaydee Holman, a seaman on a submarine running supply missions for guerrilla forces in the Philippines, loses a crucial intelligence message from naval operative Jose Escobar when enemy fire drives him overboard. Volunteering to return ashore alone to retrieve the message, he instead discovers that Escobar has far more valuable information—intelligence that could change the entire invasion strategy—and must get it back to the sub before the Japanese close in.

Commander "Red" Mantee leads USS Midhadden on a daring raid into a South Pacific atoll to strike at the Japanese fleet—but his crew grows uneasy as their captain relies on guidance from his dead executive officer, Lt. Joe Reardon, to navigate the treacherous waters and minefields. When the submarine is spotted and forced to abandon ship, Mantee's faith in Reardon's ghostly counsel becomes the crew's only hope of pulling off an impossible rescue and striking a decisive blow against the enemy.

A communist plot infiltrates a Polaris missile submarine when a trained Soviet agent replaces an American sailor, planning to transmit the vessel's position to waiting enemy destroyers. As the fake crewman works to complete his sabotage during the long underwater patrol, his carefully constructed cover begins to unravel—and the real battle for control of the nuclear sub begins. This 1962 Cold War thriller from Submarine Attack #36 delivers tense espionage and submarine warfare in seven pages.