Tom versus Aquaman in Adventure Comics number 233 or they're laughing at you, Aquaman, at you.

Welcome back for Aquaman and Adventure Comics number 23, the February 1957 issue,

feature cover pencil by Kurt Swan, inked by Stan K with the issue being edited by Mort Wisinger.

On our Aquaman story is The Sea Clown featuring art by Stan K. with the issue being edited by Mort Wisinger. On our Aquaman story is The Sea Clown, featuring art by Ramona Freighton.

And now the Sea Clown in question is not Aquaman.

I know what you're thinking.

We begin with Aquaman paying a visit to a gala seafar.

The DC Universe, lots of seafarers, lots of celebrations of the men who work the sea,

the ocean, the fish in the ocean. And Aquaman's not invited to all of them. He just kind of

crashes some of them. He'll ride in on topo, check out everything that's going on, and when people

start to notice, he'll take off. Well, he arrives at this seafar.

He's just a clown, normal at a fair, dressed like Aquaman.

He's got like the whole outfit.

It's just the head's got makeup on and sort of a long clown nose.

And a PA announcer announcing that all the people there are there to see

Wacky Man, who does an impersonation of Aquaman, and everyone's laughing because they're

laughing at Aquaman, and Aquaman's confused. They say the one and only wacky man, the one and

only who he's confused, and it starts with Wyman getting twirled around by his pet octopus,

which makes Topos a little freaked out by it.

Aquaman's a little freaked out.

Because Aquaman assumes he's the only person that could convince an octopus to twirl him around like that.

Now, he says, teach, but I think it's more of a dominating relationship between the two of them,

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