Dive to Dangerous Depths with Proteus the Atomic Super-Sub! In the early 1960s Dell Comics was inspired by the success of the hit movie Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea & they recruited legendary comics artist Sam Glanzman—himself a Navy veteran of WWII—to draw Voyage to the Deep a thrilling adventure series set in the deepest trenches of our planet&s oceans & starring the hapless crew of nuclear submarine SSN Proteus Set during the height of the Cold War & replete with giant monsters earth-threatening disasters & even an "anti-matter generator" menacing all life on earth the short-lived title was more than a disaster movie knock-off It was also the perfect vehicle for Glanzman&s action-packed artistry For the first time ever VOYAGE OF THE DEEP gathers all four issues of the hugely entertaining (albeit short-lived) series fully restored in glorious color & accompanied by a historical essay by Stephen R Bissette & personal afterword by this compilation&s cover artist Rufus Dayglo About the Author Sam Glanzman (December 5 1924
- July 12 2017) was an American comics artist & memoirist Glanzman is best known for his Charlton Comics series Hercules about the mythological Greek demigod; his autobiographical war stories about his service aboard the USS Stevens for DC Comics & Marvel Comics; & the Charlton Comics Fightin& Army feature " The Lonely War of Willy Schultz" a Vietnam War-era serial about a German-American US Army captain during World War II His graphic novel Red Range with writer Joe R Lansdale was also published by It&s Alive & IDW Publishing