Tom vs. Aquaman_Adventure Comics #277 - The Underwater Olympics
Tom vs. Comics
Thomas Katers
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🗓️ 10 March 2011
⏱️ 14 minutes
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The Underwater Olympics
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| 0:00.0 | Tom versus Aquaman and Adventure Comics number 277 or the Indian Ocean would like to lodge a formal complaint. |
| 0:09.7 | Welcome back for Aquaman and Adventure Comics number 270 in October 1960 issue, |
| 0:15.9 | featuring a cover pencil by Kurtzwan, named by George Klein, |
| 0:18.7 | with the issue being edited by Mort Wisinger. |
| 0:20.7 | And our Aquaman story is the underwater Olympics, written by Robert Bernstein, featuring |
| 0:25.1 | art by Ramona Frey, and we begin Cape Horn, the southern tip of South America, where the |
| 0:31.5 | Atlantic and Pacific Oceans meet Aquaman, Aqualadder hanging out, what do they see? |
| 0:36.6 | They witness a humpback whale, a Pacific humpback racing, an Atlantic sperm whale. |
| 0:41.4 | This is where the whales go to do their drag racing down in Cape Horn. |
| 0:46.7 | It's like spring break for the whales. |
| 0:48.2 | They get on there, they get little tipsy. |
| 0:50.6 | They do some fast swimming. |
| 0:52.0 | They race each other. |
| 0:52.8 | It's fun. |
| 0:53.5 | And Aquaman and Aqualad like to watch, |
| 0:55.9 | which is creepy. This gives Aquaman an idea. This racing does. You see the Olympics are about |
| 1:01.5 | to happen in the DC universe. It wouldn't be awesome if Aquaman and Aquilad organized an underwater |
| 1:08.1 | Olympics, a series of contests where the different sea creatures can compete against |
| 1:13.4 | each other as friendly rivals. So they're going to organize this or what did they get the |
| 1:18.6 | Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, they get the Indian Ocean, the Arctic Ocean, yeah, |
| 1:22.8 | oh, wait, no, just the Pacific and the Atlantic. The the two big ones there's just two of them |
| 1:29.1 | to leave it they couldn't assign topo to the Indian Ocean so they just do the Atlantic and |
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