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Cover: Dick Giordano
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Submarine Attack #40

Jul 1963 · Charlton · 0.12 USD
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# Submarine Attack #40 The main comic story, "U.S. Frogmen vs. Red Sub," depicts an underwater battle where American naval forces confront a Russian submarine attempting to strike hard in unexpected places. The issue also includes "The Poem That Won a Battle," a text story about a Marine Division at the Monjo River whose commander, Colonel Henry Butler, receives orders to hold the line; Sergeant Jim Woley contributes a poetic idea inspired by schoolteacher Mrs. Edna Gooley's words about an "Invisible Hand," leading to a tactical plan to destroy enemy supplies and booby-trap the landscape to halt the enemy advance.

Contains 3 stories
Tiger Trask of the Killer Whale
10 pp · War

When a by-the-book Naval officer named Lieutenant Gregory Trask takes command of the U.S.S. Gimple, a submarine crewed by undisciplined misfits, neither he nor his men are convinced the other is up to the fight. But after a daring raid on a Japanese harbor that nets multiple enemy ships, Trask transforms into the fearless Tiger Trask, and his crew discovers their captain has the guts to match his tactical genius. Together, they establish an audacious forward base and begin striking at Japanese targets deep in enemy territory, finally united in purpose.

Rendezvous
5 pp · War

Lieutenant-Commander Ross Arlen of the U.S.S. Wanga stalks a damaged Nazi U-boat through the Mediterranean in 1942, convinced the enemy vessel is heading for a secret rendezvous—and he's determined to uncover what lurks at the meeting point. When Arlen's hunch proves devastatingly correct, his submarine finds itself locked in a desperate fight against a hidden Nazi supply network. It's a tense cat-and-mouse game where one man's instinct could change the course of the Atlantic campaign.

The Big Answer...
10 pp · War

When the Soviets launch their most advanced submarine to challenge American naval supremacy, Commander Osgood and the crew of the Centurion—a revolutionary new hunter-killer sub packed with cutting-edge weapons and detection systems—must put their innovative vessel and unconventional tactics to the ultimate test. As Cold War tensions escalate and Communist submarines prowl closer to American shores, Osgood races to discover what new threat the Soviets have in store and whether the Centurion can outthink and outmaneuver her most formidable opponent yet.

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Full credits

artist, inker Ernie Bache
writer Joe Gill
cover pencils, inks Dick Giordano

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Reprinted in Fightin' Navy #131 (1984), Fightin' Navy #132 (1984)

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