It's been available for digital download since March 5th so I imagine no one cares about this.
To commemorate the release of Aquaman the movie on old fashioned home video, let's take a look back at when Aquaman was just a guy in a comic book.
And he wasn't even the star of that comic book.
This story is when Aquaman was merely a back up in Adventure Comics. The story is written by Paul Levitz, the future writer of Legion of Super Heroes and future publisher of DC Comics. This episode is only Paul's 2nd published story and his first foray into super heroes.
The art was by Mike Grell who was wowing readers like me over in Superboy and the Legion of Super Heroes. I remembered idly thumbing through this issue of Adventure and pleasantly surprised to find Mike's art work inside.
Mera's usually green outfit is colored purple on the last page for some reason.
The villain on page 2 is Black Manta, the death ray zapping bad guy from the Aquaman movie.
Aquaman would return to Adventure Comics some issues later, now in the lead spot with Paul Levitz writing (mostly; he needed a helping hand from Gerry Conway and Marty Pasko on some issues) with art by Jim Aparo. Aparo had drawn Aquaman in his solo title earlier in the 1970s.
Scans are courtesy of the ol' Groove Agent from Diversions of the Groovy Kind. Thank you kindly, good sir. My copy of that issue of Adventure Comics is buried deep and probably not in that good of a condition anymore.
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