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Tom vs. Aquaman_World's Finest Comics #131 - The Man Who Controlled Water

Tom vs. Comics

Thomas Katers

Arts, Visual Arts, Books

4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2011

⏱️ 9 minutes

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The Man Who Controlled Water

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0:00.0

Tom versus Aquaman in World's Finest Comics number 131 or somebody else already has ice trademarked.

0:08.7

Welcome back for Aquaman in World's Finest Comics number 131, the February 1963 issue, featuring a cover by Jim Mooney with the issue being edited by Jack Schiff.

0:18.2

And our Aquaman story is The Man Who Controlled Water,

0:22.1

written by Jack Miller with art by Ramona Frayden.

0:25.1

We begin, not far from the mainland, a cargo ship traveling along carrying a very precious cargo.

0:30.9

We'll find out in just a few moments, and in this case, it is actually precious.

0:35.2

And suddenly in the path of this cargo ship, a strange-looking boat, I would

0:40.8

call it a skiff. I am no sea expert, but if someone were to press me, I would have I would call it a

0:46.6

skiff. It looks weird. It's got a strange, what looks like a ray gun on it, and it pulls right up

0:52.5

in front of the boat. The guy in the skiff, it's got a scuba gear

0:57.6

on everything, turns the strange machine on the front of the skip towards the water. All of a sudden,

1:01.7

water's getting drawn up out of the ocean. We know this because the first mate is explaining

1:05.4

the entire thing is happening. The water's going to drawn up from the ocean and it forms into the

1:09.0

shape of a fish, a giant fish with sort of a battering ram head.

1:14.2

And it's made out of solid water, as the captain says, which I...

1:18.0

That's ice, right?

1:19.9

And they'll get into...

1:20.8

They're talking about ice.

1:21.7

Solid water is ice.

1:23.2

Like a movable ice creature of some type.

1:26.6

Did somebody...

1:27.1

Was somebody else using ice?

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