Hey, kids! Let’s confront our shapeless omnipresent dread of nuclear war with a comic book. You’ll learn lots: how mushroom clouds are affected by bad colorists; how missiles can turn on a dime mere yards after bursting through the water; how the mushroom cloud can reach a height of several thousand feed before the water thrown up by the emerging missile has fallen; how subs – modern, atomic-age subs – can carry missiles taller than the ship, and fire their deadly cargo from a distance of up to twenty feet under water.

The Nautilus was SSN 571, but it looked nothing like this.