Comic Title: More Fun Comics #73
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: November 1941
Approx. On Sale Date: September 24, 1941 Copyright Date September 19, 1941
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1941
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 64
Editor: Mort Weisinger

Title: (The Submarine Strikes)
Pages: 8

Feature(s):
Aquaman (of Earth-2)

Writer: Mort Weisinger
Artist: Paul Norris

Reprinted In:
Secret Origins #7 (1974)
Millennium Edition:More Fun Comics 73 (#55) (2001)
Aquaman:A Celebration of 75 Years HC (2016)
More Fun Comics #73 [Loot Crate Premium] (2018)
Aquaman:80 Years of the King of the Seven Seas the Deluxe Edition HC (2023)

Feature Character(s)

• Aquaman (first appearance; next appearance in More Fun Comics #74)

Villain(s)

• A U-Boat Captain and a high official (die in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• A refugee boat captain and his passengers (no further appearances)
• Tom Curry (not named in this story; an undersea explorer; appears in flashback; revealed to be deceased at the time of this story; no further appearances)

Comments:
Aquaman briefly relates his origin to a sea captain in this story.

Aquaman exhibits the ability to survive underwater, super-strength, and can communicate with porpoises.

This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
Aquaman helps a group of refugees escape an attack by a U-Boat. He explains to the captain, that he is the son of an undersea explorer, who taught he the secrets of Atlantis, which enable Aquaman to live underwater.

After seeing to the refugees safety, Aquaman assaults the U-Boat and its commanders. Then he destroys their island base.