Ripley, Lyndon "Victory of Dragon Reef"

Pulp fiction authors were really stretching for a novel war-related plot line by 1944 as evidenced in this looney South Seas lagoon short story. Let’s see, Ripley’s got: a sick humpback whale, a crew of whalers off a steam whale ship, one nasty Japanese submarine (packed with evil Nipponese) and a pack of killer whales. Happily for “earth firsters,” the humpback whale survives all, which unfortunately is not the case for the Japanese submariners whom the peaceful humpback and his voraciously hungry killer cousins take on, giving a new meaning to the concept of “sushi.” For plot details you’ll have to consult the Adventure Magazine original (happily out of print now for nearly 60 years!)