Tom versus the Flash number 187 or when Aquaman has a secret for you, you listen.

Welcome back for the Flash number 187, the April 1969 issue, featuring a cover pencil

by Ross Andrew, inked by Mike Esposito, and edited by Julie Schwartz. It is a giant-sized flash reprint issue.

All stories that we've covered in the episode, but I'm going to go through them just so you know

what they are. We have the man who stole Central City from Flat Flash number 116. We have

Return of the Mirror Master from Flash number 109. We have the case of the real Gone Flash from Flash number 128. And we have the mystery of Flash's third identity from Flash number 141. All of these stories written by John Broom with art by Carmine Infantino and Joe Giello. So what are we going to do? Are we just going to end this episode now? No.

I'm going to give you something, a little bonus something. I'm going to fit this in before I go to bed. I'm going to give you the origin of Aquaman. That's right. A little seven-page story. It's going to be a shorter episode, but I want to give you something rather than just two episodes this week. I want to get you a little something. So our story is entitled

How Aquaman Got His Powers, which was printed originally in Adventure Comics No. 260, May

1959, written by Robert Bernstein, artist is Ramona Freidon, and edited by Mort Wisinger. We

start in an ocean somewhere, not specific. Don't want to nail

that down. We don't know what the oceans are, where we see a strange submarine shooting barrels

into the ocean everywhere, wide, everywhere. They're depth charges. Just so happens to Aquaman's

nearby. He sees what's going on. He panics a little bit, because these are atomic warhead

depth charges. Why the Navy has decided to drop atomic bombs into the ocean all over the place,

who knows, who cares, different time, all right? We were scared. The commies were coming. You got to drop

atomic bombs if you have any idea. Well, Aquaman's concerned enough about this problem

that he's got to go into action to put out these depth charges. He has electric eels,

jamming the electronic signals, going to the depth charges. He quote-unquote mounts one to remove

the atomic warhead. I made air quotes when I said that he gets a couple of nearby whales, thank goodness

they're there, to use their giant tails to push the charges away from the location.

It's confusing. On the submarine, everyone's freaking out. Commander Haskell, the leader is getting

a report saying that it looks like someone deactivated and pushed them around. They don't know

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