*Miscellaneous 1940-1959: ACG’s best remembered today for their long-running series of genteel mystery comics, often with a strong poignant or romantic element – but there was none of that fey air about Commander Battle and His Atomic Sub, starring four manly he-men (and their kid sidekick, who inevitably came to the rescue when they got trapped after leaving him behind for his safety!) who battled the Reds on land, in the air, but mostly, as the title implies, on (or under) the water with their amazing vehicle – which, given that it was capable of containing entire airplanes, might have benefitted from more than a four-man crew so they didn’t have to rely on the kid so much. Just saying. Be that as it may, these ‘Atomic Commandos’, courtesy of editor/scripter Richard E. Hughes and artist Sheldon Moldoff, struggled against primarily Soviet forces for the political fate of the world, aided only by their all-American pluck and their amazing vehicle, which on at least one occasion became an atomic spaceship! Ah, radioactivity – it’s a miraculous thing. Despite all these merits – and a #1 attempt to cash in on the 3-D craze with overlapping panel borders and exaggerated foreshortening for a faux-3-D effect – Commander Battle’s sub sank with issue #7, but like many short-run failures of the 1950s, it’s become an achievable cult collectible in the 21st Century! We have the entire 7 issue run in stock. Pictured are #1 GD £45; #4 VG+ £60; #5 FN- £75 and #7 VG/FN £75.