Tom versus Aquaman and Adventure Comics number 263 or Aquaman votes free soil, straight tickets.

Welcome back for Aquaman and Adventure Comics number 263 of August.

1959 issue featured cover pets by Kurt Swanning, twice Dan Kay with Dushabee, with Disha being edited by more of Wisinger.

And our Aquaman story today is The Great Ocean Election, featuring art by Ramona Frayden.

Aquaman's not getting elected.

He's king.

He's got divine right to rule the fish.

It's a mandate from God.

His dad banged a mermaid, kind of.

So that's how that stuff works out.

Aquaman trolling the ocean waves

near the island of Comstock, an island filled with New Englanders. At least that's why I'm imagining it.

Angry drivers, the streets are narrow, people smoking cigarettes constantly with their angry

accents, an entire island of New Englanders, somewhere in the DC universe.

Why they had to leave New England? I don't know. We'll probably get to that at some point.

Aquaman, riding topo, near the island, sees a blimp floating over the island with a sign on it saying,

elect Vic Wake, the honest candidate.

Vic Wake's face right on the blimp. Great name for the leader of an island nation, Vic Wake.

It's fantastic.

Aquaman realizes it must be election season.

And if a blimp's involved, this is a heated election.

That is, that's a Trump card, my friend, when you're running for office to break out the blimp.

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