Tom versus Aquaman and Adventure Comics number 238, or I'll take a fastball special, wets.

Welcome back for Aquaman and Adventure Comics number 238, the July 1957 issue featured cover pencil by Kurt Swan, inked by Stan K, with the issue being edited by Mort Wisinger.

Our Aquaman story is The Floating Doom Doom featuring art by Ramona Freighton.

We began with another fantastic splash panel.

Again, splash panel, disappointing that it didn't actually happen in the comic,

was we see Topo serve just chilling out on top of a mine, which is crazy.

Why is he laying on a mine? Why is he relaxing?

Is he waiting for the sweet embrace of death to free him from his quote-unquote friendship with Aquaman?

Also note, Aquaman wearing yellow gloves in this issue. What? It's called a coloring error,

everyone. Chill out. Still the same Aquaman we've always known. At least I like to believe so. We begin Aquaman making his regular rounds of the highest seas, where it comes across a suspicious situation. It looks like there's a boat dropping mines into the ocean. The guys on the boat are wearing masks, which is suspicious. Because if you're on a boat and you all know each other, why would you need to wear masks? It pretty much just gives off a signal that you're doing something really fishy. Alkman's piss, but this is a major sea line. Sea lane, it's peacetime. There shouldn't be any minds around whatsoever. It calls up a whale. It kicks up a spot. Aquaman rads it down on the deck in his usual style, and he demands to know what's going on, why they're laying mines in peacetime. One of the guys who's dropping the mines tells Aquaman to calm down, they're not really mines. They're plastic bubbles containing instruments that are measuring ocean currents and taking samples of the water. It's a science experiment. They just

happen to kind of look like mines, which is unfortunate. You would think that you would make it not look like a mine. And the masks are just to protect him from the radium, which is fueling the instruments. Now they are their masks off. They're irradiated by the radium. So it's cool. Nothing suspicious going on. They just look like mines, and we're just all wearing masks.

And Aquaman doesn't know anything about it. Not a big problem.

And Aquaman started good laughs and scratching his head, and he's embarrassed by what happened.

But he says it looks suspicious what's going on.

And the guy is on the butt of just laughing.

It is suspicious of facts.

They're probably going to get shot at by some sea captain.

Maybe it would be great if Aquaman went around and told everyone that it was harmless

so they could just keep doing what they're doing.

Alicamand is sort of embarrassingly laughing.

Says it's a good idea he'll do that and just takes off. As soon as Aquaman takes off, though, on the boat, they start laughing at Aquaman, not just because he's riding a top-bo, but because they have real minds. Some of us a fake one that he's shown him. As he says, the sea man, they don't even call him Aquaman, fell for the trick. They're not going to break out the real mine. See, they've got a plan. These are modern-day pirates. They're going to drop real mines in the path of the Santa Ana, this poor and fortunate boat that Aquaman keeps running across. When it blows up, they're going to steal the cargo, which is gold bullion, which is just in the DC universe, commonly sent by boat, just back and forth all the time, just gold everywhere.

They fooled Aquaman.

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