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Tom vs. Aquaman_World's Finest Comics #137 - The Day Aquaman Lost His Powers

Tom vs. Comics

Thomas Katers

Arts, Visual Arts, Books

4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2011

⏱️ 10 minutes

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The Day Aquaman Lost His Powers

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Tom versus Aquaman in World's finest comics number 137 or stop huffing dragon fumes.

0:08.8

Welcome back for Aquaman in World's finest comics number 137, the November 1963 issue,

0:14.7

feature cover pencil by Jim Mooney, Inc. by Sullivan Muldup.

0:17.5

The issue being edited by Jack Schiff, and our Aquaman story is The Day Aquaman lost his powers.

0:23.0

Written by Jack Miller, featuring art by Ramona Frayden.

0:25.6

We began Aquaman Aqualad on patrol when they run across an old friend of Aquaman's Captain Toby, who's now in the salvage business.

0:34.1

Him and his crew go around plucking whatever treasures out of the bottom of the sea they can

0:38.2

find. And the Aquaman Aqualide seemed, noticed that the diver seems to be having problems. They get over to

0:44.0

the boat, and Captain Toby explains that the diver was trying to pull up some ancient treasure they

0:48.1

found when all of a sudden he got very, very ill. Well, Ahmed Aqualad are willing to help out in this case.

0:54.0

And for a small percentage of the profit, just a reasonable 25%.

1:00.0

Nothing outrageous.

1:01.4

They'll help out.

1:02.1

They get down there.

1:02.8

They get down to where the treasurer is.

1:04.2

They find some frog men.

1:06.1

Now, this is not the exciting type of frog men that are like half frogs, half men, but men in scuba gear.

1:13.2

It would be better if it was half men, half frogs.

1:15.4

You can imagine it that way, actually.

1:17.5

It's the beauty of comics.

1:19.4

They're trying to take the treasure that Captain Toby had found.

1:23.5

Aquaman, Aqualad charged them to warn them off, but they pull up with their spear guns, and they start fighting the spear guns at Aquaman and Aqualad, charged them to warn them off, but they pull up with their spear guns,

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