Comics UK

STORY 1: "Schuberts' Gold"
ISSUES 9 - 15 (1978)
WRITER:ANGUS P ALLAN
ARTIST:MIKE NOBLE

Set to watch over a secret shipment of gold bound for the United States on the cargo vessel Midas,Mark Harris,(The Man From Atlantis),foils an initial robbery attempt.
Then a School of Whales ,controlled by Mr Schubert,run full tilt into the ship and sink it.
Mark rescues all of the crew onto life boats but is snared by Schubert,along with the fortune of gold.
Schubert devises a horrifying fate for his arch enemy and Mark is shot from Schuberts' mechanical whale into the path of a school of real giant mammals controlled by ultrasonic impulses to be swallowed alive.
Nobles' art,his depiction of undersea creatures and faithful recreation of the TV shows' characters excels itself.
Allans' characterization of the major players is spot on.
Absolutely brilliant.

STORY 2 : "Monster From The Deep"
WRITER:ANGUS P ALLAN
ARTIST: MIKE NOBLE
ISSUES 16-20 (1978)

When a horrifying fish,whose normal habitat is the darkest depths of the ocean, terrorises a Californian beach, the foundation for Oceanic Research is immediately involved.
Doctor Elizabeth Merril and Mark Harris (The Man From Atlantis) are sent out in the submersible, The Cetacean.
A great story with fantastic art and truley terrifying depictions of undersea monsters that make the shark from Jaws look positively placid.
Unfortunately the story finishes before resolving the central questions of what is causing the volcanic activity beneath the sea and what is behind the bizzare growth of the giant fish.

STORY 3:
"HUMAN SACRIFICE"
ISSUES 21 - 24 (1978)
WRITER: ANGUS P ALLAN
ARTIST: MIKE NOBLE

Off the New Guinea coast, Cetacean searches for a recently reported new species of fish.
Mark is appalled when a native boy, bound hand and foot, drops down through the water towards him.
A human sacrifice.
Mark rips the bonds and races the boy back to the surface.
They are then both taken captive and imprisoned by the savage witch doctor, Namui.

STORY 4: "To Take The Cetacean"
ISSUES 25 - 27 (1978)
WRITER: ANGUS P ALLAN
ARTIST: MIKE NOBLE

Mark Harris, the Man From Atlantis, is captured by his arch enemy Mister Schubert, who wants to get hold of the oceanic research vessel, Cetacean.
Mark is left in a remote mountain area beyond the South American coastline, slowly dying through lack of contact with water.

STORY 5: "Barbarism"
ISSUES 28 - 29
WRITER: ANGUS P ALLAN
ARTIST: JOHN COOPER

Carrying Nuclear waste for disposal, the Lima Trader goes down in the Pacific.
Its cargo could be a threat to the American coasts if the containers burst open and spilled their contents into prevailing currents.
Cetacean is ordered to haul the wreck to a deep water trench.
As Elizabeth Merrill and her companions get to work, a giant Sting- Ray menaces them as Mark Harris tries to draw it away.
This was the last strip of the series.