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- Sub-Mariner looks into the mysterious sinking of U.S. naval vessels off the Eastern Coast, each of them carrying a fortune in gold shipments. Investigating the sunken ship he finds that the boat had been flooded from within and the crew slaughtered and the gold stolen. Before he can leave he is attacked by a legion of pirate zombies who knock him out and take him to an underwater city. Feigning unconsciousness, he revives and attacks the pirates when they bring them to his leader a mad scientist who wants to dissect Namor and learn his secrets. While Namor is fighting off the zombies, he is injected with a drug that saps his will and is ordered to accompany the zombies in attacking another ship.
During the attack, Namor is struck on the head causing the drugs effects to wear off. Freed from their control he convinces the crew of the ship to abandon the vessel. With no other choice, Namor lets the pirates sink the ship and follows them back to their masters undersea base. There, Namor bounds up some of the zombies in roots and forces his way in through the air lock. There he finds the base is powered by steam created by mixing water with an underwater volcano. Smashing the water pumps, Namor then edges a block of wood under a water release valve to insure that eventually the pressure build up will destroy the hidden base.
Namor then goes back out into the water and attempts to stop the pirate zombies from robbing the sunken ship. He spots the doctor overseeing the operation and attacks. During the attack, he is pulled away by an octopus. Believing Namor killed, the doctor and his slaves continue their work. Namor however breaks free and goes after the doctor once more. However, the doctor is now armed with a powerful torch and Namor is forced to flee into the back of the ship. There the doctor seals Namor in a room with a hammer head shark. Namor battles the shark, snapping it's spine and then resumes his chase of the doctor.
Fighting the doctor one-on-one, Namor manages to break open his pressure suit which causes the pressure of the ocean to crush the doctor to death. Just at that moment the island base explodes, destroying the remaining zombies. The force of the explosion causes all the sunken ships in the area to briefly rise out of the water. With his mission accomplished, Namor rushes back to the states to arrange a salvage operation.
- The Sub-Mariner is relaxing on the Mississippi River when he suddenly hears cries for help. He witnesses as a man is thrown overboard from a steamship called the Ghost Witch. Taking the man to shore, Namor finds that he has been shot, and the man dies. Taking him to a local plantation house he learns that the man's name was Bill Howard. The plantation owner tells Namor that he made a bet with Bill to board the Ghost Witch as it was a wreck that was said to be haunted.
The plantation owner explains that during the civil war a chest full of gold was shipped aboard the Ghost Witch. When the captain told gambler Rindigo Jones about the gold they conspired to steal it. Shooting the man shipping the gold dead, they were cursed by him to roam the Mississippi forever never achieving their gold. Mocking this they fled in a life boat. At that moment the Ghost Witch was struck by lightning, killing all aboard. Jones and his crew went missing shortly thereafter.
Realizing that the supposed ghost ship was full operation, Namor goes back out into the river to investigate. Finding the Ghost Witch once more partially sunken, he boards the vessel. He falls through a trap door and is greeted by the spitting image of Rindigo Jones himself. However, this man is no mere ghost as he flees when Namor punches him. Following after him, Namor gets his foot caught in a bear trap. Getting it off his foot, he tosses it around Jones' neck and demands some answers. However, when he pulls the bear trap off him, Jones sets off an alarm bringing a bunch of men to attack the Sub-Mariner.
Overpowering Namor, they tie him up on a boat anchor and toss him overboard to drown. Revitalized by the water, Namor shimmies over to the sunken life ship that has the corpses of the real Rindigo Jones and his men and cuts himself free. Namor surfaces and finds that the ship is missing. Going to shore, Namor follows some strange foot prints to a local tobacco house. Inside, Rindingo Jones -- or rather his grandson -- gloats about his means of scaring locals away from the river so he can salvage the long lost gold for himself. When Namor is spotted approaching the house, Rindingo pretends to be a tobacco auctioneer to throw off Namor. However, the Sub-Mariner recognizes the voice and breaks into the warehouse. Not wishing to be stopped, Jones ties a cable from the ship to a support beam of the wear house and pulls forward at full steam, sending the warehouse collapsing on everyone not aboard the ship.
Namor survives this and chases after them. Not wishing to get caught Jones orders his men to put on as much steam as possible, and has them wedge the steam valve that prevents the boiler from exploding. This proves to be their undoing, as they manage to attain a speed faster than Namor can swim, it eventually causes the boiler to explode destroying the ship and killing all aboard. With Jones dead, Namor decides to alert the government about the gold so that it can be salvaged and used toward war bonds.
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