Comic Title: Star Spangled Comics #42
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: March 1945
Approx. On Sale Date: January 3, 1945 Copyright Date January 2, 1945
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1945
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 48
Editor: Jack Schiff

Title: "Swords in the Sea"
Pages: 10

Feature(s):
Liberty Belle (of Earth-2)

Writer: Don Cameron
Artist: Chuck A. Winter

Feature Character(s)

• Liberty Belle (last appearance in Star Spangled Comics #41; next appearance in Star Spangled Comics #43)

Supporting Character(s)

• Rickey Cannon (last appearance in Star Spangled Comics #41; next appearance in Star Spangled Comics #43)

Villain(s)

• Kurt Von Ratzen and various Nazi soldiers (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• A tribe of island pearl divers (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Libby Lawrence and Rickey Cannon rescue a pearl diver from a swordfish. The native islanders claim that the divers have been menaced by swordfish and a green ghost. Liberty Belle investigates and discovers the ghost is a Nazi submarine. The Nazis send a group of swordfish to elimate Liberty Belle, but she signals Cannon to rescue her. Cannon then bombs the sub at Liberty Belle's direction.