Tom versus Aquaman and Adventure Comics 231 or the DC universe has always been a boat-friendly universe.

Welcome back for Aquaman and Adventure Comics number 231, the December 1956 issue,

feature you cover pencil by Kurt Swan, inked by Stan Kay, with issue being edited by Mort Wisinger,

and our Aquaman story is

three fates for Aquaman. With art by Ramona Frayne we begin Aquaman taking time away from

the ocean to check out a museum exhibit about the future of the oceans. He's got a one-track

mind. The guy's interested in the ocean. He's in charge of it.

He needs to keep up to date.

So at this museum, and you get in for free when you're superior.

You get in a museum for free.

Any museum you want.

You see futuristic ships.

A bridge spanning the Atlantic, well, a model of a bridge spanning the Atlantic from Europe to America, which Aquaman gives an amazing, you know, like a, it's snide.

I read it as snide.

He doesn't think it's amazing.

A bridge sucks.

He can just swim right across it.

But there is a machine that is actually extremely impressive.

It's called the think machine.

A machine that when you feed essential facts and do it, the essential facts, I guess, of what you're going to be doing or your plans,

it will predict events 12 hours in advance. A great boon to every ship's captain.

It could possibly be used for other things, but in the DC universe, this is just a thing for boats.

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