Editing Davy Jones's locker (section)

===20th century===
[[File:"Lubbers don't live - Oh learn a lesson from Joe Gotch" - NARA - 514926.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|World War II poster makes reference to Davy Jones's Locker.{{refn | group = n|Caption: Oh learn a lesson from Joe Gotch – Without a lifebelt he stood watch – "Abandon ship" came over the phones – He now resides with Davy Jones}} In nautical jargon, a lubber is a clumsy or inexperienced sailor.<ref>{{cite OED|lubber|id=110780}}j</ref>]]

In the 1930 cartoon "The Haunted Ship", from the [[Aesop's Fables (film series)|''Aesop's Fables'']] series, Davy Jones is depicted as a living skeleton wearing a pirate's [[bicorne]] hat.

[[Raymond Z. Gallun]]'s 1935 science fiction story "Davey Jones' Ambassador" tells of a deep-sea explorer in his underwater capsule who comes in contact on the seabed with a deep-sea culture of underwater creatures.

[[Theodore Sturgeon]]'s 1938 short story "Mailed Through a Porthole", about a doomed freighter, takes the form of a letter addressed to "Mr. David Jones, Esq., Forty Fathoms".

Davy Jones is a character appearing in ''[[Popeye (comic strip)|Popeye]]'' comics authored by Tom Sims and [[Bela Zaboly]] between 1939 and 1959. He is depicted as a sea spirit who inhabits the bottom of the ocean as well as his Locker, which is located in a sunken ship.

[[Tom Lehrer]]'s 1953 album [[Songs by Tom Lehrer]] includes the number "The Irish Ballad", in which one of the stanzas contains the lines "She weighted her brother down with stones / And sent him off to Davey Jones."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/ricketyticketytin.html|title=The Irish Ballad / Rickety Tickety Tin [Tom Lehrer]|website=Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music}}</ref>

The 1959 Broadway musical ''Davy Jones' Locker'' with [[Bil Baird]]'s [[marionette]]s had a two-week run at the [[Morosco Theatre]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/production/davy-jones-locker-morosco-theatre-vault-0000002430|title=Davy Jones' Locker @ Morosco Theatre|access-date=2016-09-25}}</ref>

In the television series ''[[The Monkees (TV series)|The Monkees]]'' 1967 episode "Hitting The High Seas", the character Davy Jones (played by musician [[Davy Jones (musician)|Davy Jones]]) receives special treatment while kidnapped in a ship as he claims to be related to "The Original" Davy Jones, his grandfather. The fact that Jones the musician shared a name with the legendary seafarer has itself led to a number of [[pun]]s swapping the two in the decades that followed.{{refn|group = n|Musician [[David Bowie]] performed and recorded as Davy or Davie Jones – Jones being his real surname – before taking on the [[stage name]] [[Bowie knife|Bowie]] to avoid confusion with The Monkees' singer.}}