Tom versus Aquaman and Adventure Comics number 250 or Aquaman respects the scientific method.

Welcome back for Aquaman and Adventure Comics number 250.

The July 1958 issue feature cover pencil by Kurt Swan, inns by Stan Kay,

with issue being edited by Mort Wisinger, and our Aquaman's story is The Guinea Pig of the Sea, featuring art by Ramona Frayden.

We begin, Aquaman on patrol, just checking things out, riding Topo around, riding on the tentacles, like a surfboard, which I don't think an actual octopus would be able to hold a person up like that.

And this is obviously why we see the sorrowful eyes of Topo in this scene. So how it comes across an incredible emergency. There is a water spout about to crash into a cabin cruiser out in the middle of the ocean. There's no time to move the boat out of the path of the water spots. They got to destroy the water spout. Topo's concerned because we see he's not looking forward the way he's supposed to go.

He's looking back with his sorrowful eyes at Aquaman, no thought balloons this time.

Just a silent contemplation of his master and the danger they're going to be in.

So how is Aquaman going to approach stopping this water spot, this water tornado?

Well, he knows that their only chance is to cut it in half, destroying its suction,

so it'll disappear.

I don't actually think that's how you would handle a tornado, but I've never been in a position

where I could conceivably cut a tornado in two.

And neither's Aquaman, but he's not going to do it.

It's not like Aquaman's going to jump in and break it into or swim so hard

that it shoots a spout of water that cuts into.

Now, not when you have control of the fish of the sea,

not when you have control of a giant manterey with knife-like wings or fins,

actually.

He commands it to throw itself into the tornado, which he does with a smile.

An extremely dangerous maneuver that the Manta Ray does, because they're stupid.

And one time Aquaman helped him move into his place, and even though Aquaman really just kind of like moved a few boxes and just bitched the whole time about it, he feels obligated to help Aquaman out in this situation. So we see the Bataray take off into the air, and it's giant. Cuts right through the water spout, causing it to disperse. Now it's harmless, and Alcheman can just comfortably ride Topo up to the boat to see what's going on. And he sees that it's the Rush Marine Laboratory boat, and that the man on board must be Dr. R.V. Rush, a scientist who's studying marine vegetation. And R.V. Rush, Dr. Rush, is shocked to see Akman. He'd always hear incredible stories about this guy who's friends with the fish. He was always making them do dangerous stuff. And he was kind of a douche about it and always fighting

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