Tom versus Aquaman in World's finest comics number 126, or they need to come up with a better game plan to handle gnats.

Welcome back for Aquaman in World's Finest Comics number 126 to June 1962 issue featuring cover pencil by Jim Mooney,

inked by Sheldon Moldoff, with the issue being edited by Jack Schiff, and our Aquaman story is Aquaman Super Sea Circus,

written by Jack Miller, featuring art by Nick Cardi.

That's right, Aquaman running a circus, and he is as tyrannical about it as you could imagine.

We begin.

The stands are packed in this special seashore circus setup as parents, kids, grandparents, friends, lovers.

Everyone wants to see the circus that Aquaman's got going because it's got fish in it.

I mean, it starts off with the squid playing cello.

It's got a gorilla fish fighting a tiger fish.

And then it gets to the first real big act. Those were just

warm-ups. The first real big act is Topo and his seven octo acrobats. So we see Aquaman introducing

them. Topos climbing up a pole on one side and the rest of his team's claim up in the other.

It's a trapeze act where seven octopos are on one swing, swinging.

Topos on the other side.

They're all going to grab one of his tentacles, and he's going to swing around.

It's going to look awesome.

Even Aquaman, begrudgingly admits that Topo's putting on a good show.

Is Topo, well, actually, is that Aquaman or Aquilad? I think the sort of

begrudging respect would be more of an Aquilad thing is if he really wanted Topo to completely

fail, because there's a little bit of glee in his face when Topo tries to get a bit fancy. He tries to

throw an extra somersault into the move, causing all the octopus to let go of his tentacles,

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