Tom versus Aquaman Adventure Comics number 254 or there ain't no money in selling eels.

Welcome back for Aquaman in Adventure Comics number 254, the November 1958 issue featuring cover

pencils by Kurtzwan, in by Stan Kay, with issue being edited by Mort Wisinger, and our Aquaman's story

is The Menace of the Electric Man,

written by Jack Miller, featuring art by Ramona Freighton.

I've recorded that intro like 20 times.

I've had a Tom Collins this afternoon because I have the week off, and I'm just chilling out

and watching Doctor Who and recording podcasts and writing stuff and looking up car insurance.

It has been enough to affect my ability to say Aquaman correctly.

So let's see if I can actually do the show the whole way through.

Show. I just sounded like I am from Minnesota or Canada.

We begin, a remote tropical island in the Pacific, and two shady-looking gentlemen have arrived.

They, of course, work for a nationally prominent American aquarium. And like all aquariums,

they have hired the shiftyest con artists in the world. All of them. They're one step above

Carnies, aquarium workers. If you go to aquarium, they're going to try and con you. How are these two guys? One guy's got sunglasses. The other guy's kind of like a big hulking dude. He's probably super strong but stupid. And the other one's the smart con man. They come to this island to purchase some fish for the aquarium. They're the shifty-looking ones, they're not even up to anything in this issue. They're just there. They just work for the aquarium, and they're there to meet a Mr. Peters. Mr. Peters put up some advertising for some specials on swordfish and electric eels. Buy one swordfish, get a second one free, two eels for $5. They're really $2.50 apiece, but they want you to buy two of them.

So while the aquarium men are introducing themselves to Peters, Peters is distracted,

but all he can think about is the fact that he is truly Roy Pinto, escaped convict.

And if these aquarium people knew that he was Roy Pinto, they'd probably still buy fish from him.

They might even try and hire him.

But he's going to maintain the illusion of being Mr. Peters fish salesman.

So the two dudes from the aquarium are just watching Peters jumping into the electric eel tank to get a couple of electric eels up.

Peters, he doesn't like the tight suits.

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