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Ron Chevrier
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I think Aquaman's most significant super power (talking to
fish) is also the most visually static super power around, which
doesn't help his case in the popularity department. Sure it's cool to
order two hundred sea turtles to take the machine gun fire while you
wait it safely on the back of your favorite porpoise, but if you have
the fish do all the dirty work in every story, your rep is going to
suffer.
I get that those stories were written in a much different time, and for
a younger audience than my current self, but I just don't find them as
charming as some of the other DC material from thie time period.
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Joe Zhang
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Wow, Nathan. Where the heck is that from???
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Nathan Greno
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Joe:
Wow, Nathan. Where the heck is that from???
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Which post of mine are you talking about, Joe?
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Jason Czeskleba
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Chad Carter wrote:
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Seriously, you need look no further than Aquaman #40 to #56 by Skeates and Aparo (with, as Kurt mentioned, stunning covers by Cardy for most of the run). Buy them now, pick up the reprints in the old Adventure Comics Digest of the early 80's, or wait for Showcase #3 (I guess). The first extended story centers around Mera being kidnapped and Aquaman's quest to find her. It's a more than sufficient reason for him to want to "kick ass" and he does, extensively, throughout the run.
As to the lack of fighting in Silver-Age books... it was especially true in books edited by Mort Weisinger (as the Aquaman strip was when he was in Adventure). You saw more fisticuffs in a Schwartz or Jack Schiff book. Weisinger books were much more about the character being presented with a problem and having to think his way out of it.
The issue below was my first exposure to Aquaman outside the JLA. He's quite the badass in this story:
Edited by Jason Czeskleba on 21 June 2007 at 8:46pm
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James Hanson
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What's weird is that even though Aquaman is a pretty unpopular hero, he's
one of the most iconic the industry has produced. Everyone knows the name
Aquaman.
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Joe Zhang
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"Which post of mine are you talking about, Joe?"
Oops. The, um, watersports pages.
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Nathan Greno
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Joe: The, um, watersports pages.
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Charles Valderrama
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Anyone see Alex Ross' take on Aquaman in JUSTICE? He really makes
Aquaman a serious player who can really kick some butt!!!
Alex Ross could make Aquaman a top seller if he wanted to.
-C!
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I wonder if Aquaman would look "tougher" if he rode around on a shark or a killer whale instead of a giant seahorse?
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Here's a fun adventure from Adventure Comics 124 (1948)...
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Michael Connell
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I never understood why (since he started in the 1940's) there was no Earth-Two Aquaman. They could even have kept the original 40's origin in an Earth-Two version.
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Jason Czeskleba
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James Hanson wrote:
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What's weird is that even though Aquaman is a pretty unpopular hero, he's
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Aquaman. |
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That's entirely because of TV, isn't it? The 60's Superman/Aquaman Show and then Super-Friends. I assume he was used in Super-Friends because he was well-known to cartoon programmers from the 60's show. But I wonder why he was chosen to co-headline that 60's show with Superman in the first place?
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