Tom versus Aquaman in Detective Comics number 293 or print his dead, or at least smells like dead fish.

Welcome back for Aquaman and Detective Comics number 293, the July 1961 issue, featuring a cover by Sheldon Moldoff with the issue being edited by Jack Schiff.

Our Aquaman story is The Sensational Se Scoops featuring art by Nick Cardi.

That's right. We're in Detective Comics this time. Aquaman gets around when you have golden backup story potential.

You'll end up in a lot of places. We begin in the high seas. Aquaman atopopo, Aquilad atop a

shark on patrol when they notice a helicopter flying by.

Aquilad recognizes it as Ken Wall's newscopter.

He's the one who runs, writes, publishes the Maritime News.

He's out in his helicopter delivering copies of the newspaper.

Imagine that.

A place where newspapers are so popular that even a maritime newspaper, paper just dealing with sea issues, makes enough money that the guy has a helicopter to fly around delivering the newspaper to people on boats, lighthouse.

Lighthouse captains.

That's got to be a scary classifieds page, what i'd have to say the misconnections in the

maritime news have to have a unique maritime quality to them and has aquamette and admiring ken

wals newscopter uh something comes diving out of the sky streaking out out of the clouds. A jet plane with machine guns

that happen to be firing towards Kenwall's plane. The bullets hitting Kenwall's helicopter,

putting holes in it, forcing Ken to crash land. Aquaman and Aqualad go to the rescue.

Aquaman commands some sea sponges to jump right out of the water. I don't think they can actually

do that.

Attaching their bodies to the helicopter, making it airtight. The jet plane is coming back around for

another pass to finish Kenwall. Aquaman has some nearby whale sharks. It looks like

somebody's discovered whale sharks. Has some nearby whale sharks pulled the helicopter beneath the surface of the water

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