Ghosts #61 (1978), story page 2 by Yandoc

"When Phantoms Stalked the Wolf-Pack" by Carl Wessler. Cover date February 1978. Letterer unknown, not Yandoc.

German sub commander stalks an Allied convoy in the Irish Sea during World War II but meets a gruesome fate at the hands of vengeful apparitions of his victims from the previous war.

Production missed the misspelling of the first word on the page, lieutenant, and used a blue marker that left a line and circle still visible on the published page (binoculars admiral). However, no cut corners or margins!

Lambiek Comiclopedia: "...Ruben Yandoc has worked on Filipino comics like 'Patapon', 'Kasaysayan ng Mga Anghel' at Kenkoy Komiks and '29' at Tagalog Klasiks during the 1950s and 1960s. Yandoc was a regular artist for DC's mystery and war titles in the second half of the 1970s and early 1980s, including 'G.I. Combat', 'Ghosts', 'House of Mystery', 'House of Secrets', 'Sgt. Rock', 'The Unexpected' and 'Weird War Tales'. For a short time, he also drew Marvel's 'Scarecrow' and 'Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction' and for the Warren magazines Eerie, Creepy and 1994."

Who's Out There blog: "Ruben Yandoc (also known as Rubeny, 1927-1992) isn’t nearly as well-known as Alcala, yet he has a beautiful, half-decorative, half-sketchy style. He excelled at horror stories (published in DC’s Witching Hour, House of Mystery, Ghosts, House of Secrets..), and was a master at creating mood. His perfect grasp of architecture and anatomy enabled him to draw believable characters in incredible settings – none of this “figures floating about aimlessly” shit that you sometimes get from artists who can’t imbue their objects and subjects with mass...I do believe that Yandoc did his own lettering, as it’s a consistent element across his American output (Note: not in this story). That’s always a plus, an added touch of personality. Love those sinister onomatopoeia!"

Historical note: Story concludes "Today, the ghosts of that doomed vessel's 1,153 victims (i.e., sinking of the Lusitania) still shape their watery grave with the U-13's barbarous captain and his crew...whose shocking supernatural encounter was witnessed by officers of a destroyer escort on May 7, 1942!"

I couldn't find anything about a "supernatural encounter" involving U-13. Although U-13 was sunk in the same place as the story, the Irish Sea, in May, the day and year don't match. Another U-boat, U-85, was sunk on the date given by the story -- May 7, 1942 -- but off North Carolina on the opposite side of the Atlantic. (Wikipedia)

I found a strange U-boat encounter from World War I. In April 1918 the British rescued the crew of UB-85 floundering in the Irish Sea. The captain claimed a large sea creature had attacked the sub, leaving it unable to submerge. (Wikipedia)