Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (novel) Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (novel) Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is a science-fiction novel written by Theodore Sturgeon and first published in 1961 by Pyramid Books. Sturgeon wrote the novel from the screenplay that Irwin Allen and Charles Bennett wrote from an original story written by Irwin Allen. The movie also inspired a television series that ran for four years on ABC. Under the command of Captain Lee Crane and with Admiral Harriman Nelson, Vice-Admiral B. J. Crawford, Congressman Llewellyn Parker, and psychologist Susan Hiller aboard, the nuclear-powered submarine USOS. "Seaview" goes under the Arctic
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea the Earth from wobbling out of orbit. It stopped publishing by issue #4. That ship was named "Proteus", later the name of the 'submarine' in "Fantastic Voyage". In 1961 Dell Comics created a full color adaptation of the "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" movie. The comic was "Four Color Comics" #1230 and drawn by Sam Glanzman. It has a few publicity stills of the movie plus a section on the history of submarines. In the comic book the Admiral's first name is Farragut instead of Harriman. There was also a "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" coloring