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Tom vs. Aquaman_Adventure Comics #262 - The Undersea Hospital

Tom vs. Comics

Thomas Katers

Arts, Visual Arts, Books

4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2011

⏱️ 11 minutes

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The Undersea Hospital

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0:00.0

Top versus Aquaman Adventure Comics number 262 or an underwater MRI is expensive.

0:08.8

Welcome back for Aquaman Adventure Comics number 262, the July 1959 issue feature cover

0:14.3

penciled by Kurtzwan, each by Stan K.

0:16.9

Issue being edited by Mortyzinger, and our Aquaman story is the Undersea Hospital,

0:23.1

featuring art by Ramona Frayden.

0:25.7

We begin standard afternoon underneath the ocean surface, Aquaman hanging out on a shipwreck.

0:31.3

Just chilling and joining the sounds of the ocean.

0:33.4

Now this is something about Topo.

0:35.6

That's unusual.

0:36.4

Topo is limping around on the ocean floor.

0:38.4

Now, why would Tobo, who's an octopus, have to be walking around the ocean floor to perhaps

0:43.4

display the fact that he does have a sprain tentacle, which sends Aquaman into action immediately

0:48.1

realizing he's got to bind up that tentacle for Topo to heal properly?

0:54.5

I don't think there's any bones in a tentacle.

0:58.2

So how, I don't quite understand how it would be sprained.

1:01.4

I think this is more of an acting job by Topo than anything because Aquaman starts

1:05.8

thinking about how many of its fanny friends could be injured.

1:09.9

And then you start thinking about, yeah, there's probably some that are injured. And then you start thinking about, yeah, there's probably

1:11.6

some that are injured. And then you start thinking about why would they be injured? Maybe Topos

1:16.0

tentacle is sprained because you had him acting as a propeller for a cruise line the other day. Or maybe

1:20.9

that whale's back is herniated because you had an airplane land on its back as if it was a runway.

1:26.7

There seems to probably be a lot of fish that are injured in the ocean,

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