So I'm versus Aquaman in Adventure Comics number 260 or stop me if you've heard this one before.

Welcome back for Aquaman in Adventure Comics number 260 to May 1959 issue,

featured cover pencil by Kurtzwan, ink by Stan Kay, the issue being edited by Mort Wisinger.

And our Aquaman story is how Aquaman got his powers.

Written by Robert Bernstein, featuring art by Ramona Freidon.

This issue is where DC Comics officially puts the dividing line for the Silver Age for Aquaman.

We see Aquaman's origin, really, for the first time, his Silver Age origin.

We see elements that are unique to the Silver Age. Now, personally, I think Topo is a better dividing line, but this is fine. It's good. This is where the showcases pick up, so if you want to read along with the showcases, you can get those, and it starts here, and that's why I'm going to follow. I'm going to follow the showcase chronology, and then when the showcases it down, I'll go into the issues. So this is a good point. If you like to read along, these are available. There's also something else unusual about this issue. I've done this one before, actually. I did it way back in May of 2009. I did it as a fill-in for when there was a flash issue that had a

reprint. I did the origin of Aquaman. At the time, I didn't realize it was the first Silver Age

story. It was just another Silver Age story to me. And as I was reading it, I was like,

ah, I think I've done this before. So I have done it before. So I'm not going to do it again. I read it and I listened to the old episode. I made the same jokes I'm at this time. It's a waste of time. So I've taken that. Cut off all the stuff that doesn't matter anymore. And this is, I guess, a reprint episode. Sorry, I don't want to redo it. And people probably might have missed it or don't

remember it, so I'll throw that in there. You're going to get a new one, completely new tomorrow.

But it's a snow day here, so I thought I'd throw this out there for you. Trust me, I'd make the same

jokes, if it at all new again. And it's funny to listen to it, because when I do these shows, I develop very much

a point of view about the character as we go issue by issue. And it's funny now to throw one in

where I didn't really develop the same point of view I have of Ahmed at the time. Though it is

interesting note that the government, once again, just trapping atomic bombs everywhere.

I mentioned that in this story. And we see Atlantis for the first time. So it is a really definitive Aquaman story. It's been

reprinted numerous times. It's been in 80-page giants and Aquaman comics that's been reprinted

in DC special issues, secret origins of the Aquaman archives, the showcases.

So it's a big Aquaman story. And let's get right to it. We begin in an ocean somewhere,

not specific, don't want to nail that down. We don't know what the oceans are,

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