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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 6, 2022 14:09:53 GMT -5
Navy Patrol #2
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 6, 2022 14:13:03 GMT -5
Two-Fisted Tales #32 Ahhhhhhhh........................ The Yamato was a battleship, not a destroyer! Where's Sam Glanzman, when you need him?
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 6, 2022 14:24:16 GMT -5
New contest for this week, and another topic that hasn't been used before, but should produce some varied results-- Submarines!
New orders downloaded from SATCOM detail your mission to post a classic comic cover depicting a submarine, either in whole or in part (full or partial external view, surfaced conning tower, Skipper at the periscope, etc.).
However, it must be a Submarine, NOT just a "Sub-Mariner"... unless the Sub-Mariner cover also depicts an actual submarine (hint: there are several of those). Bathyspheres and bathyscaphs are also permissible.
I'm going to kick off the inspiration with a classic cover--
Sea Devils #15, Jan-Feb 1964, published by National Periodical Publications (DC)
cover art by Russ Heath
The rules for those new to the game:
- Post one, and only one, classic cover that fits the theme of the contest.
- Cover must be from a published comic book, comic-related magazine, or collected volume published before April 6, 2012.
- Please include also the title of the comic and the issue number in case some posters cannot see your image.
- Covers must be posted before voting begins.
- Voting takes place on Tuesday, April 12, 2022, beginning at 12:01am PST and ending at 11:59 am PST.
- Vote by posting the name of the poster whose cover best fits the theme or that you simply like the most. Please put the name of your choice in bold.
- The winner of the contest is the entrant with the most votes after the voting period ends.
- The winner chooses the theme for the next week's contest.
- If you don't think the cover fits the theme, don't vote for it; please don't post disparaging remarks about it.
- If a cover is more recent than the classic time frame, kindly point it out to the poster, who may then choose an alternate before voting begins.
Have fun-- It's time for you to take the helm and Dive!-Dive!-Dive! for those classic covers! If we're gonna dive, I want to be at the dive planes.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 6, 2022 14:40:49 GMT -5
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 6, 2022 14:42:15 GMT -5
Since it kind of fits the topic, here's a memento from my brief time, as a sub driver.... My second midshipman training cruise (CORTRAIMID), where we spent each week with a different segment of the Navy, to help us decide on a career path. First week was Surface, second Submarine, third was Aviation and the 4th was Marine Week, The SEALs got to laugh at us during Surface Week. As part of it, we went out, overnight, on a ship (Surface & Sub Weeks) or aircraft (Aviation Week); and, then, the Marines got to abuse us for an entire week (though I got to ride in an amtrack, an SH-53 helicopter, fire an M-203 grenade launcher and an M-16 and load a howitzer). During Sub Week, we got to spend time on a torpedo simulator (periscope, plotting table and launch station set-up), a dive trainer (a gimbaled platform that reacted to the movements of the helm and dive planes) and a damage control trainer, where we tried to stop flooding of a compartment. We then went out overnight on an attack sub (complete with dosimeters, since they are all nukes) and got to handle the Conn, for man-overboard-drills (we got to give the helm commands to maneuver to pick up a dummy tossed overboard), monitor passive sonar readings, and handle the helm and dive planes. When it was my turn, they gave me both the helm and dive planes. It's basically like an airplane's controls, with a yoke. Turning the wheel left or right controls the helm, while moving the yoke in or out controls the dive planes. With the helm, you have to make minor adjustments to counter any swing and maintain a steady course. With the dive planes, you are doing the same, to maintain depth. So, when they gave me both, I was having to make minor corrections with both the wheel and the yoke. I was already an experienced helmsman, from my first cruise, the previous summer; so, that part was no problem. It took a couple of minutes to get the hang of the dive planes, especially with the helm active on my station. Normally, you have a separate helmsman and dive planes, stationed side by side; but, you can switch either control to the opposite yoke. We all got our pictures taken, at the periscope, so we could look salty, or as much as you can, when you are 19 (and babyfaced) We did simulate an emergency blow, on the dive trainer, which is what you are seeing, in that GIF. It's basically like rocketing up the hill of a rollercoaster. ps. If I remember correctly, I took my glasses off, to look through the viewfinder. I was blind as a bat, even then. So, no flying (well, piloting) or blowing up things underwater, with the SEALs. I, instead, went into the glamorous and highly dangerous Supply Corps, where we could kill with a requisition, in triplicate!
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Post by tartanphantom on Apr 6, 2022 15:04:14 GMT -5
Since it kind of fits the topic, here's a memento from my brief time, as a sub driver.... My second midshipman training cruise (CORTRAIMID), where we spent each week with a different segment of the Navy, to help us decide on a career path. First week was Surface, second Submarine, third was Aviation and the 4th was Marine Week, The SEALs got to laugh at us during Surface Week. As part of it, we went out, overnight, on a ship (Surface & Sub Weeks) or aircraft (Aviation Week); and, then, the Marines got to abuse us for an entire week (though I got to ride in an amtrack, an SH-53 helicopter, fire an M-203 grenade launcher and an M-16 and load a howitzer). During Sub Week, we got to spend time on a torpedo simulator (periscope, plotting table and launch station set-up), a dive trainer (a gimbaled platform that reacted to the movements of the helm and dive planes) and a damage control trainer, where we tried to stop flooding of a compartment. We then went out overnight on an attack sub (complete with dosimeters, since they are all nukes) and got to handle the Conn, for man-overboard-drills (we got to give the helm commands to maneuver to pick up a dummy tossed overboard), monitor passive sonar readings, and handle the helm and dive planes. When it was my turn, they gave me both the helm and dive planes. It's basically like an airplane's controls, with a yoke. Turning the wheel left or right controls the helm, while moving the yoke in or out controls the dive planes. With the helm, you have to make minor adjustments to counter any swing and maintain a steady course. With the dive planes, you are doing the same, to maintain depth. So, when they gave me both, I was having to make minor corrections with both the wheel and the yoke. I was already an experienced helmsman, from my first cruise, the previous summer; so, that part was no problem. It took a couple of minutes to get the hang of the dive planes, especially with the helm active on my station. Normally, you have a separate helmsman and dive planes, stationed side by side; but, you can switch either control to the opposite yoke. We all got our pictures taken, at the periscope, so we could look salty, or as much as you can, when you are 19 (and babyfaced) We did simulate an emergency blow, on the dive trainer, which is what you are seeing, in that GIF. It's basically like rocketing up the hill of a rollercoaster. ps. If I remember correctly, I took my glasses off, to look through the viewfinder. I was blind as a bat, even then. So, no flying (well, piloting) or blowing up things underwater, with the SEALs. I, instead, went into the glamorous and highly dangerous Supply Corps, where we could kill with a requisition, in triplicate!
Great experience, and yes, apropos for the subject. Thanks for sharing this.
Now, if only they would let you simulate an Irwin Allen undersea crisis...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2022 15:24:29 GMT -5
Wonder Woman #43
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Post by foxley on Apr 6, 2022 16:26:00 GMT -5
Marvel Mystery Comics #4 (1940, Timely, Alex Schomburg)
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Post by kirby101 on Apr 6, 2022 19:02:37 GMT -5
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Post by Rob Allen on Apr 6, 2022 19:19:54 GMT -5
Navy Action #4, Feb 1955, cover by Russ Heath (signed in lower right corner):
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 6, 2022 19:28:53 GMT -5
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Post by badwolf on Apr 6, 2022 20:36:38 GMT -5
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Post by berkley on Apr 6, 2022 21:08:05 GMT -5
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Post by tartanphantom on Apr 6, 2022 21:22:45 GMT -5
That is one angry-looking baleen whale in the background....
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Post by Farrar on Apr 6, 2022 22:04:49 GMT -5
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