Jacques Cousteau
Sea Devils 9
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Sea Devils 9 Universal
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Grade:
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8.0
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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0806017014
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Owner:
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Lee K
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
"Secret of the Coral Creature!" Ok, the bad guy is made of coral - so I get why he's pink (yes, I know coral comes in all colors - but coral pink was so a thing in the 50s & 60s), and I even get why he's roughly formed, but he's really uninteresting. Combined with the green - like seriously really green sea - he's kind of ucky. So then we have a giant eel, which is kind of a cool yellow and grey pattern which the Sea Devils are riding(?) hanging on to(?) in order to escape the ucky coral dude; oh and we have some weird rushing water effect around the eel. The image makes sense when you parse it out to its individual pieces, but damn it's terrible in the whole. The angle of the eel/rushing water is too close to vertical to imply motion so the image is terribly static; and the weird spacing between the coral creature's head & left arm make him look like he must have a giant shoulder only on the side behind the rushing water, but not on the near side. It's just bad. Like a special kind of terrible. Maybe Russ was sick that week.
Overall - no. Just no. I can't imagine spending 10 cents on this even if I read Sea Devils with passion each issue. Oh well, if you are going to have a cover that is the best in the run, you're going to have one that is the worst. This is the worst.
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