Tom versus Aquaman and showcase number 31 or this fillet of trunk fish is delicious.

Welcome back for Aquaman and showcase number 31, the March slash April, 1961 issue featuring a cover pencil by Howard Purcell, inked by Sheldon Moldoff, with the issue being edited by Jack Schiff.

And our Aquaman story is The Sea Beast from 1 billion BC, written by Jack Miller, featuring art by Nick Cardi, someone other than Ramona Frayden.

And I love Nick Cardi art.

It screams more action to me, but then again, Jack Miller's stories are more action-oriented

where Aquaman's actually doing stuff, getting mixed up in things, having to swim around and punch

people, and Nick Carter's art's definitely great with that. It's got a little less of a light-hearted

tone than the Ramona Frayden stuff, so it kind of fits these stories a bit better. I mean, Aquaman,

lucky to have such great artists involved.

We begin the high seas and a thrilling sight for a ship captain.

They're out on the deck, their boats going along, what do they see off in the distance,

riding two majestic porpoises, Aquaman and Aquilad, and this is such a special moment for the captain of the boat.

He's been on the sea for 30 years, and he's never seen Aquaman.

Aquaman's been around for 30 years. Really? Or it seems like just a year or two.

And the sea is a big place. Unless you are directly being affected by smugglers or your

injuring fish, pretty good chance

you probably wouldn't have seen Aquaman. This, I assume the captain is reduced to tears.

We see this from the distance. I'm sure he falls to his knees, finally having achieved the

greatest thing a captain can achieve, and that is seeing Aquaman. And then this is his day,

because he sees two rare things.

He sees Aquaman and Aquilada on porpoises.

And then on the other side of the boat, up out of the water,

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