Sea Devils
Cover to Sea Devils #21. Art by Howard Purcell
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Showcase #27 August (1960)
Created by	Robert Kanigher (writer) Russ Heath (artist)
In-story information
Base(s)	Windward Home
Member(s)	Biff Bailey Dane Dorrance June Walton Nicky Walton Miguel Molo Sikki

The Sea Devils are a team of characters in comics published by DC Comics. They are a team of conventional (non-superpowered) adventurers, in undersea adventures. They were created by writer Robert Kanigher and artist Russ Heath (through issue #10).

Contents 1 Fictional team biography 1.1 Current status 2 Other versions 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Fictional team biography

The team was introduced in Showcase #27 (July-August 1960)-29 (November-December 1960). They then got their own title which lasted 35 issues (1961-67).

The team consisted of leader Dane Dorrance, Biff Bailey, Judy Walton (Dane's girlfriend), Nicky Walton (Judy's younger brother). During a one issue crossover story with the Challengers of the Unknown in Challengers of the Unknown #51, they fight the criminal group known as Scorpio. The team also has affiliated allies called the International Sea Devils: Molo from Africa, Sikki from India, and Miguel from South America. They also sometimes team up with a magically cursed, green skinned amphibian man they called the Man-Fish (Juan Vallambrosa)^[1][2] and a group of diving students called the "Tadpoles".

More than ten years after the cancellation of their title, the team takes a small part in the defeat of an alien invasion in Showcase #100 (May 1978). Then, Dane and Judy (now married) help out Christopher Chance, the Human Target in Detective Comics #486 (October-November 1979).

The Sea Devils (usually only Dane) later appear as part of the Forgotten Heroes team.

They help in another alien invasion, this time by the Apellaxians. They assist in entrapping a group of 'Mercury' aliens, assisted by Aquaman and Cave Carson.

[edit] Current status

The Sea Devils resurface in Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis #42 as the defacto paramilitary guardians of Windward Home. Jim Lockhart the Red Torpedo, and Elsa Magnusson, widow of Mark Merlin are the administrators of Windward.

[edit] Other versions

The nine Tangent Comics titles published by DC Comics in 1997 include a Sea Devils title written by Kurt Busiek. In this universe, the Sea Devils are fish mutated into sentient humanoids by the radiation of an atomic exchange between the United States and Cuba, which destroyed most of Florida and Georgia. The Sea Devils' city of Shaligo is built on the remains of Macon, Georgia, and is ruled by a charismatic red-skinned Sea Devil known as the Ocean Master.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Toonopedia: Sea Devils
• DCU Guide: Sea Devils
• Sea Devils index
• DC Database: Man-Fish

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