Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea After the film was finished the sets were placed in storage. When Irwin Allen decided to make a "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" television series, all he had to do was pull the sets out of storage. This was done at a fraction of the cost that he might have had if he had begun from scratch. The film reduced the cost of setting up the show and was the template for the type of stories that were done. The studios, having made the film, helped make the television series easier to produce. The success of the television
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