Tom versus Aquaman Invention Comics number 273 or Schwitz to the rescue.

Welcome back for Aquaman and Adventure Comics number 273, the June 1960.

If you feature your cover pencil by Kurt Swan, in by Stan K.

with the issue being edited by Mort Wisinger.

Our Aquaman story is Around the World and 80 Hours.

Written by Robert Bernstein, featuring art by Ramona Freight, and we begin. Book Publishing Office.

DC Universe book publishing still, people still read in the DC universe. There's a Captain Crowell

who's pitching his new book to an executive at the book company, And the executive says that the book is incredible. His quote is, sorry, Captain Crowell, your novel about a swimming champion who swims around the world, and 80 hours is incredible. We can't publish it. He means it incredible in a bad way. It's too incredible. People won't believe it. People can't believe that someone will swim around the world in 80 hours.

There's a weak love interest in it. The continuity is all screwed up. No one's going to enjoy it.

Captain Cryell argues that it is true to life. His swim champion could be like Aquaman, and Aquaman could totally swim around the earth in 80 hours. I did some math.

That means swimming around the earth at about 300 miles power, which is something I could

believe Aquaman could do if he's a superhero. Now, a swimming champion, 300 miles an hour

all the way around the earth? I have a hard time believing that. I see where this executive

is coming from here.

Why the 80 hours is swimming around the world in 80 days?

Not enough to...

Is it too much like Jules Verne?

Would he have to knock it down?

You could swim around it in 79 days.

The executive says that if he can get...

If Captain Crow can get Aquaman to do it, yeah, they'll publish the book because the publicity will be out of this world.

The book will become a bestseller just from the publicity.

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