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Tom vs. Aquaman_Adventure Comics #246 - The Town That Went Underwater

Tom vs. Comics

Thomas Katers

Arts, Visual Arts, Books

4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2010

⏱️ 10 minutes

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The Town That Went Underwater

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0:00.0

Tom versus Aquaman and Adventure Comics number 246 or

0:03.2

All This Finney Friends or Underwater Carnies.

0:09.7

Welcome back for Aquaman and Adventure Comics number 246,

0:13.5

the March 1958 issue feature cover penciled by Kurtzwan inks by Stan Kay

0:18.1

with issue being edited by Mortyzinger.

0:20.5

And our Aquaman story today is The Town That Went

0:23.5

Underwater, featuring art by Ramona Frayden.

0:26.0

We begin the outskirts of Beechcroft, a small Atlantic sea coast town, and there's

0:31.4

Aquaman wearing yellow gloves in this issue, up to something that befits Aquaman, I feel

0:37.4

in this time in his life. He's

0:39.5

Ballyhooing, carnival barkering, outside of some sort of live sea creature show. He's got

0:45.5

the megaphone, he's yelling to the crowd, Topo is taking tickets. First, he's handing tickets

0:51.2

to people. People hand Topo money.

0:54.7

He takes a slithering tentacles grabs it and hands them a ticket, which they take inside.

1:00.4

Now, what are they buying tickets for?

1:02.4

We see, Akman yelling to everyone in Beechcroft to step up and enjoy the first underwater amusement park in the world featuring rides that are run and operated by

1:13.5

underwater sea creatures water carnies. Aquaman's turned his finny friends into carnies. The price

1:20.6

of admission includes a snorkel, oxygen tank. It's all included. All included in your ticket. You get

1:26.9

underwater, you enjoy all the rides. It'll be included. All included in your ticket. You get underwater. You enjoy all the rides.

1:29.6

It'll be fun. Isn't the one thing that's really missing from your trip to the amusement park is being

1:35.2

underwater? Isn't that the missing sequence? Well, one of the people outside, of course,

1:41.3

is concerned. How can they trust the sea creatures? These are wild animals,

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