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Tom vs. Aquaman_Adventure Comics #236 - The Iceberg of Doom

Tom vs. Comics

Thomas Katers

Arts, Visual Arts, Books

4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2010

⏱️ 10 minutes

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The Iceberg of Doom

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0:00.0

Tom versus Aquaman, an adventure comics number 236, or an insurance scam, isn't that more of a Superman problem?

0:08.7

Welcome back for Aquaman in Adventure Comics number 236, the May 157 issue feature cover pencilback,

0:14.9

Kurtzwan, by Stan K, with issue being edited by Mort Wisinger.

0:18.9

Our Aquaman story is the iceberg of doom, written by Otto Binder,

0:24.0

or is it Binder? Send to corrections. Correct me, people, with art by Ramona Frayden. We begin

0:29.4

with a really great sort of splash panel of Aquaman holding onto a chain of octopye that are holding

0:34.9

on to an iceberg saving Aquaman from being sucked into a whirlpool

0:39.4

caused by another evil iceberg that scene does not happen in this issue i decided to mention it because

0:45.4

it's cool and this is the chain of octopi i don't know which one topo is or if topo's the one that

0:50.8

had to approach the other octopi to join in this adventure. If Topo is jealous of the other Octopi, so much Topo going on.

0:58.7

We begin, North Atlantic disaster. A boat about to get hit by an iceberg. Something feared by all sailors.

1:09.1

They didn't even notice it. It just sort of popped up on nowhere.

1:12.0

It came upon them unawares, as the captain says.

1:15.3

They yell to abandon ship.

1:17.1

Nearby, a seal has seen this whole thing happen.

1:20.0

Just a seal bobbing in the water, noticing the ship's been hit by an iceberg.

1:23.5

This isn't just any ordinary seal.

1:25.0

It's been trained by Aquaman to blow a special underwater horn labeled a sea siren.

1:31.2

So we see the seal at the bottom of the ocean blowing on the sea siren, setting out a day,

1:36.0

which is annoying and Aquaman can hear.

1:41.2

So Aquaman arrives just a time to see the boat just unloading all the

1:46.4

escape boats being launched from the sinking boat. One of them is tipped over. Aquaman and as the

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