293 – The Order of the Blue Flower

A panel from Sub-Mariner Comics #17, June 1945
A panel from Sub-Mariner Comics #17, July 1945

By May 1945, Germany had surrendered to the Allies – yet the comic books that came out in July 1945, like Sub-Mariner Comics #17, had been written before that. In this one, Namor takes on the Order of the Blue Flower, a fascist group that looks and talks a lot like the Ku Klux Klan.

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