Tom versus Aquaman Adventure Comics number 284 or Aquaman, you magnificent bastard,

I read your book.

Welcome back for Aquaman in Adventure Comics number 284, the May 161 issue,

featuring cover pencils by Kurtzwan, Inkwestankay, the issue being edited by Mortyzinger,

and our Aquaman story is The Charge of Aquaman Sea Soldiers, written by

Jack Miller featuring art by Jim Mooney, who's more famously known for his work on Supergirl, so it's

cool to see him doing Aquaman. We begin in the Great Gulf, a cargo ship carrying rare

coins, steaming across the Gulf, about to make its weekly delivery of rare coins first mate notices

something odd an iceberg it's warm here there shouldn't be icebergs around the captain's a little

concern but they're going to steer clear of it it's not going to be a big problem except that the

iceberg seems to move under its own power it charges the boat faster than they can avoid it

slashing open the hold of the boat a hatch opens on the iceberg and we see it's the oldest con in the ocean. You haul out on an iceberg. You put a motorized boat inside of it. You use it as cover. It's filled with crooks. They pour into the hold. They're going to steal the coins. They throw planks so they can walk across to the boat.

Huge hole in its side. It's going to sink as well. So they're going to unload the coins as fast

as they can before the boat sinks, before their iceberg melts, before it's all exposed,

watching this entire operation is the man who put it together. Professor Snark, he's on the mainland,

looking through a giant telescope. It's working perfectly.

He doesn't get himself in the mix too often. Then in horror, he recoils because he sees Aquaman and

Aqualand have arrived riding Topo and Steve. They need to stop these raiders. Aquaman's got a plan.

He gets some sawfish to cut the planks in half, so they're stuck on board the hold of the boat. The crooks see that Aquaman's cut off their escape, so they're going to put some bullets in him. They break out their machine guns. They're going to eliminate Aquaman once in Robben's got a plan. He's ordered nearby Archer Fish to spit seaweed stalks at them like arrows, which they do, knocking the machine guns out of the crooks' hands.

Again, the fish doing the heavy lifting for Aquaman. He could have jumped out of the water and punched him.

He elected not to. The disarmed crooks are easily captured. But the problem is the boat's going to sink.

Well, Aquaman's got a solution for that as well. He orders a school of puffer fish to sit in the hold, inflate themselves with water from inside the boat, and then spit it out. It's going to be enough so they can get to port. Everything is cool. The rare coins have been saved. Aquaman has saved the day. The boat limps away. Aquaman and Aqualadder left with the fake...

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