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Tom vs. Comics

Tom vs. Aquaman_Aquaman #4 - The Menace of Alien Island

Tom vs. Comics

Thomas Katers

Arts, Visual Arts, Books

4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2011

⏱️ 16 minutes

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The Menace of Alien Island

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Tom versus Aquaman and Aquaman number four or Quisp X Machina.

0:09.0

Welcome back for Aquaman and Aquaman number four, the July August 1962 issue issue

0:12.7

issued feature cover by Nick Carty with issuing edited by Jack Ship.

0:16.2

And our Aquaman story is the menace of Alien Island or the menace of having quips of all your problems,

0:23.1

what I would say.

0:23.8

But that's not the real name.

0:25.1

It does feature up by Nick Cardi.

0:26.9

Let's get right into the story.

0:29.1

We begin a dawn mist blanketing the coastal waters.

0:32.9

Aquaman Aquilad looking over a beautiful fishing village and they see something horrible. A giant tidal

0:40.5

wave headed straight for the village and they have to move quickly to save the villagers because

0:45.3

the town is getting flooded. We see Aquaman Aqualad carrying children and adults throwing them on the roofs

0:50.8

of buildings. The Aquaman Salvation Squad of Topo, Steve, and Lorenzo

0:56.0

are tossing children onto roofs. I think they just enjoy the tossing of children more than the

1:02.4

saving of them. Then it's a big problem, though. The waters are still rising. They've got to get them

1:06.3

to higher ground. So the octopi formed themselves into a giant chain, and they're just handing

1:10.5

people along

1:11.2

on the tentacles until they can get to a hill, coughing a little bit of a feel, which is just

1:16.3

kind of creepy. And is there still moving people? They see on the horizon, another giant tidal wave

1:22.2

headed towards the village. There's nothing Aquaman and Aqualette can do that can stop this wave in

1:26.8

time. It's going to kill the rest of the villagers. This is horrible. There's nothing that can be done, according to Sad Sack Aqualad. He's always ready to point out when things go bad. And then there's a giggle. A slight giggle, not from Aquaman, not from his pleasure at seeing humans die, but from a familiar water sprite that we know is Quisp, you standing nearby

1:45.9

saying the Aquilat is so wrong, there is something that could stop this wave. And Quisp uses his

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