A bat! That's it! It's an omen.. I'll shall become a bat!
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A bat! That's it! It's an omen.. I'll shall become a bat!
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Meh other then the change for Tom its pretty similar. Grew up not really knowing his mother discovering Atlantis, His mothers nature is ambigous and his father is human. Regardless of his human statement on being a human who can breathe underwater. I dont see the origin being to different its just really short but still easy to connect it to the Silver Age origin for the most part. Sorry for the Late Reply I still dont get how to check replies and stuff on here..
Anyways in regards to a anniversary
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MORE FUN COMICS 73 and 101 were both done as MILLENNIUM EDITIONs in 2000.
Aquaman did show up in ALL-STAR SQUADRON--so I think that's the one book that reallly drives home the dfference between Earth-Two Aquaman versus Earth-One Aquaman.
Of course, in reality, there was no distinct difference--just as there wasn't for Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman or Green Arrow--it's just that the characters evolved over time and the engraver's plates for the early Aquaman were lost, so rather than try to reproduce old comics (even if they were only around 15 years old at the time), the editors did new origin stories. And as seems to be the case with all writers, their new stories had cosmetic changes.
Still, it's too bad that more Aquaman stories haven't been reprinted. They weren't the greatest stories--even by 1940 standards--but it's interesting to see how the character developed. It's too bad that both the ARCHIVES and the SHOWCASE PRESENTS started so late in Aquaman's run and didn't at least reprint some more of the 1950s stories.
Aquaman began appearing in Adventure Comics in issue 103. If you google adventure comics blog, you'll see a site that chronicles that late, great magazine. It's mostly single-page shots, but there are at least a couple of complete Aquaman stories from the 1940s. There's some Green Arrow stuff also.
Aquaman origin story (originally from More Fun Comics #73)
as reprinted in Secret Origins #7 (October-November 1974):