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Writer – Robert Kanigher, Bob Haney
Artist – Russ Heath

“The Sea of Sorcery,” both the title of the first story and a mysterious place where people have been seeing strange things for years is the location for the next outing the Sea Devils will be taking. Dane, Judy, Nicky and Biff mean to explore these strange waters and discredit all of those previous sightings by proving there is nothing beneath the waves aside from the usual ocean stuff one would see. All of them dive and after a time, come back to relate their stories. Biff is the first who tells of a mermaid he freed from the bow of a sunken ship while Nicky tells of a giant sawfish that would eventually befriend him. The only person who never saw a thing was Dane and while they all had a good laugh about each other’s stories, Dane is determined to see if he can find something and so dives again. As he heads further down, he gets himself tangled up in some seaweed which he cannot escape and who comes to his rescue but each one of the ‘visions’ that his friends had just spoken of and Dane does not know whether he is hallucinating or if it is the real thing. Robert Kanigher injects a lot of fun into this tale and gives the team a wee bit of a challenge, though not quite as much as previous issues have seen. The second tale to grace this book is called “The Secret of Volcano Lake,” which does not see the team diving in the ocean but in a lake, something just a little different and in the bowl of a volcano no less. As it is, the Sea Devils are looking for the lost Condor temple belonging to a South American tribe said to be extinct and who had a secret which allowed them immense breath control underwater. Diving down into a river, they find a man tied to a pole, left to die from piranhas. Suffice it to say, the team rescues the man and he takes them back to his tribe who are definitely not extinct which then eventually leads them to the temple they are looking for and a whole lot of trouble. This particular adventure is written by Bob Haney and the man gives the Devils a real test as they find themselves walking into both a feud between two men who want to be chief and later a trap from which they may find no hope of escaping. Thankfully, the Devils being who they are manage to pull off yet another win and live to dive another day. All of this was drawn once more by Russ Heath, one of the best pencilers to ever grace the page and the book looks fantastic, each page a real work of art with drama and action to spare. Another great issue in the ongoing saga of the Sea Devils.

3.5 out of 5