Sea Devils (comics)


The Sea Devils are a team of characters in comics published by DC Comics. They are a team of conventional adventurers, in undersea adventures. They were created by writer Robert Kanigher and artist Russ Heath.

Fictional team history

The team was introduced in Showcase #27 – #29. They then got their own title which lasted 35 issues.
The team consisted of leader Dane Dorrance, Biff Bailey, Judy Walton, and Nicky Walton. During a one issue crossover story with the Challengers of the Unknown in Challengers of the Unknown #51, they fight the criminal group 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 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. Dane and Judy help out Christopher Chance, the Human Target, in Detective Comics #486.
The Sea Devils later appear as part of the Forgotten Heroes team. Dane has also works away from the other Devils when he forms a new team to protect dolphin migration from human killers.
They help in another alien invasion, this time by the Appellaxians. They assist in entrapping a group of 'Mercury' aliens, assisted by Aquaman and Cave Carson. This is set chronologically early in their career.
The Sea Devils resurface in Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis as the de facto paramilitary guardians of Windward Home. Jim Lockhart, the former Red Torpedo, and Elsa Magnusson, the widow of Mark Merlin, are the administrators of Windward. The Sea Devils briefly appear in Grant Morrison's Final Crisis, where they aid an alternate universe version of Aquaman in his battle against Ocean Master. The Sea Devils also appear in Justice League: Cry For Justice, where they assist Wally West and Jay Garrick in defusing an underwater explosive planted by Prometheus.
In The New 52 continuity reboot, the Sea Devils appear as "eco-terrorists" but remain close allies of Aquaman.

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