I mostly remember Aquaman from watching the Superfriends cartoon as a kid.
I actually forgot that I own some Aquaman comics. Getting close to Zero Hour in my rereading of my non-Bat DC books, so I just reread Aquaman: Time and Tide. It's much darker than I remembered. Who knew that an entire issue about a pod of dolphins could be so sad?
I also have the first 8 issues of the ongoing series that followed it (1-2, 0, 3-7). That was right around the time I started buying comics regularly, so I guess I just didn't like the series enough at the time to keep it on my pull list. Which seems weird, since I later became a big fan of Peter David's writing on Hulk and Supergirl. As I'm rereading stuff that I haven't looked at in 20+ years, I'm making a want list of back issues to catch up on, so we'll see if I like the series more this time around.