Tom versus Aquaman and Adventure Comics number 274 or the many facets of a championship swimmer.

Welcome back for Aquaman and Adventure Comics number 274, the July 1960 issued featuring a cover pencil by Kurtzman, inked by Stan Kaye,

with issue being edited by Mort Wisinger, and our Aquaman story is Aqua Queen, written by Robert

Bernstein, featuring art by Ramona Frayden.

We begin Aquaman helping charity, like he always does.

This time, he's the sole judge of a charity SwimMeets.

This was a different age, as I've said many times.

A lot of money was raised during swim meets.

It would be a Saturday.

You and your family would go watch the swim meet.

It cost a nickel to get in and gather all the nickels.

Donate a quarter of that to charity.

But this is a slightly different type of swim meets.

It's not pure speed.

It's not anything simple like that.

It's just an overall judging of your general aquatic ability. And if you're going to have

a meat just judging your aquatic ability, there's no better judge than Aquaman. And he's

taking it very seriously. It's all female, by the way.

It's for the lads, wink, wink.

Aqualad's a little worried.

There's so many women competing.

So many of them are good.

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