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Welcome back for Aquaman in Adventure Comics number 248, the May 158 issue featuring a cover

pencils by Kurt Sloan, inked by Stan K with issue being edited by Mort Wisinger.

And our Aquaman story today is The Traitor of the Seven Seas,

featuring art by Ramona Freighton.

We begin in the Southern Seas, wherever that might be,

with famous underwater explorer Jim Ward.

We all know Jim Ward, right?

Famous DC Universe Underwater Explorer.

He's just hanging out, picking up shells, exploring the oceans,

as he is one to do, based upon his fame of being an underwater explorer when he sees something

fantastical happen. A giant monkfish, very dangerous, big jaws, big teeth, attacking Aquaman,

some sort of fight. They're fighting. Aquaman fighting a monkfish. Why would this be going on?

Aquaman is friends with the fish. Yeah, he asked them to do a lot of things, but they're cool with it, and they have an understanding between them. So it's weird to see them fighting. So Jim Ward's watching this whole thing going on. Aquaman's dodging the monkfish as it's just chomping, chomping away. Now Aqu Aquaman takes off running away from the monkfish. Really? As the mungfish is about to close it on, Aquaman, who's got his back to him, all of a sudden he turns around jamming something into the monkfish's mouth, which is a slab of salt, kicked salt from the sea floor, jammed into its mouth so he can't use it, and then Aquaman and just drags it off by the fins. What could be going on? What's going on?

Well, Jim Ward jumps back in his boat, follows Aquaman off to a strange hidden cove where he sees something even more fantastical than Aquaman fighting a monkfish. It's a UFO floating above the cove with a strange tank underneath it, with fish inside. Aquaman having a door open to the tank and he's throwing the monk fish in. What's going on? Why would he be doing this? Well, Jim Ward goes up to ask Aquaman, because Jim Ward, of course, is good friends with Aquaman who's wearing yellow gloves in this issue for those that care about that sort of detail. So Jim Ward asked him in Aqu Aquaman at first, this hasn't as to say it, because he wanted it to be a secret,

but Jim Ward is totally cool, so he's going to let him know what's going on.

It all started a couple days ago.

Aquaman was running around on Topo, just chilling, when he saw, heard a great noise first.

Look up, saw a UFO with that tank coming down over the water,

lowering it into the ocean, wondering what's going on.

Al-Man heads on over.

Asks the UFO what it's doing there, and by telepathic communication,

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