Tom versus Aquaman and Aquaman number eight, or this is why Aquaman statues are going to thrown up everywhere.

Welcome back for Aquaman in Aquaman number eight.

The March, April, 1963, issued feature cover by Nick Carty.

Issuing added by George Cashton, and our Aquaman story is The Plot to Steal the Sea, written by Jack Miller,

featuring art by Nick Carty. We begin in the Aquacave. Please Rockwellad and Aquaman hang out

between missions. They got a hammock in there. It's cool to hang out. They're just sitting in there

waiting for something to happen when a signalfish comes rushing in with a very urgent message.

Lake Cahoe is disappearing. It's vanishing.

Aqualad freaks up as that means the fish in the lake are going to die.

Aquaman knows it as well. They have to move quickly to do something on the double, as Aquaman says.

Now, usually Aquaman does not give a hoot about what happens to fish because he makes them do dangerous things all the time

that could get them killed.

Who knows how many fish have died because of the orders of Aquaman, yet these freshwater

fish in this lake extremely precious to him.

How they got the message to the signal fish?

I'm going to go with the seagull, or perhaps some type of rat.

Does it matter?

They get to this scene. Here's the lake water levels very low. The fish flopping around,

struggling for water. Aquaman puts his ear to the ground, and he hears an encouraging sign.

Here's an encouraging sign, sound, I should say. It's an underwater stream nearby that they can use to replenish lake. Why the stream doesn't already go into the lake, they're so close to each other. They would

obviously happen, right? They would obviously be connected into the larger water ecosystem of the area.

No, not in this case. This lake is not attached to this river that is maybe

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