After essentially a self-contained story in Adventure Comics #460, this issue's Aquaman feature kicks off a multi-part storyline, starting with Aquaman and Mera returning home and finding something surprising:
After taking care of the armed security, Aquaman and Mera head to the Royal Palace, where Vulko is waiting for them.
Aquaman is worried about what he sees, and he's not reassured when Vulko tells him that Atlantis has gone into business with the UFP!
Vulko--with an assist from Aqualad--try and convince Aquaman that this deal with benefit both constituencies, but Arthur's hearing none of it: he doesn't trust "Surface Dwellers", and thinks Vulko is dangerously naive. Enraged, he takes off.
He decides to head to Wall Street, on an undercover mission to learn more about the UFP and the obscene bonuses they're paying their executives (no, I'm kidding about that last part).
Eventually, Aquaman breaks his way into the UFP's record-keeping office:
Aquaman is worried about what he sees, and he's not reassured when Vulko tells him that Atlantis has gone into business with the UFP!
Vulko--with an assist from Aqualad--try and convince Aquaman that this deal with benefit both constituencies, but Arthur's hearing none of it: he doesn't trust "Surface Dwellers", and thinks Vulko is dangerously naive. Enraged, he takes off.
He decides to head to Wall Street, on an undercover mission to learn more about the UFP and the obscene bonuses they're paying their executives (no, I'm kidding about that last part).
Eventually, Aquaman breaks his way into the UFP's record-keeping office:
The guard has the drop on Aquaman, but he manages to escape rather easily. As he does, the guard radios for help, and a phalanx of guards chase Aquaman into a darkened meeting room.
Aquaman, with eyes accustomed to seeing in the dark, finds a place to hide. When the moment is right, he strikes:
Aquaman, with eyes accustomed to seeing in the dark, finds a place to hide. When the moment is right, he strikes:
Like I pointed out last issue, Paul Kupperberg consciously sets scenes at night or in the dark, and Don Newton brings them off perfectly. Change the color of Aquaman's gloves from green to blue, and that one middle panel could be right out of one of Newton's issues of Batman.
Cover-wise, unfortunately all Aquaman got this time around was the little blurb on the bottom front--which is even more frustrating when you consider the cover was drawn by Jim Aparo!
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