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Sunday, February 13, 2011

Adventure Comics #108 - Sept. 1946

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Comics Weekend "The Stolen Light!" by Joe Samachson(?) and Louis Cazeneuve.

It's Adventure Sunday!

As Superboy helps rescue an incredibly stupid child, Aquaman is busy fighting off some lighthouse thieves. Yes, lighthouse thieves!:
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Aquaman, realizing he has no time to argue with the Army soldiers about to shoot, jumps out a porthole to safety. He spies the ship about to hit some rocks due to the false light, and tries to find a way to send them a signal.

He heads below the surface to get help from some finny friends:
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...and so ends another adventure with Aquaman!


This is the Golden Age Aquaman I have come to know and love: the one who isn't afraid to bust heads, with extreme prejudice!

This story has some other nice touches: artist Louis Cazeneuve pulled off some nice shots, like the next to last one on page four--its no Will Eisner, but it has a bit more mood than your average Aquaman adventure from around this time.

On a separate note, I have to kind of admire (though that's not really the right word) the Nazi prisoner from that same panel: he's still in total support and belief in Hitler, even though their side had been overwhelmingly, decisively crushed less than a year before--that's dedication. Considering he was heading for trial, he might have wanted to back off the "Heil Hitler" stuff a bit, just for his own sake.

Finally, I just love the last panel, where the two guys marvel about how great Aquaman is, while he just stands there, looking heroic, taking it all in...

7 comments:

Anthony said...

Was wondering if you'd eventually make some comment re: the Superboy covers (I always liked the Boy of Steel), and I suppose that's an apt one. :-p

Joseph Brian Scott said...

Fun adventure! "Have you any Nazi spies there?" Do you have any Grey Poupon? And the Golden Age, Earth-2 counterpart to Tusky! I had no idea he went so far back.

Wings1295 said...

Golden Age greatness, that's for sure. Awesome post. Also wish sometimes that we had more 'one issue' tales that didn't rely on tons of issues before and after it to understand.

Anonymous said...

So, does Tusky's appearance here put the Filmation series on Earth-2? that would explain why the Filmation Justice League seemed too snooty to invite Aquaman to hang.

Anonymous said...

So, does Tusky's appearance here put the Filmation series on Earth-2? that would explain why the Filmation Justice League seemed too snooty to invite Aquaman to hang.

James Chatterton

wich2 said...

Interesting to see that cover...

I seem to recall hearing that Siegel & Shuster's original concept for "Young Superman" stories was for them to really be a teaching tool, not just entertainment -

- and that they were p.o'd that National co-opted their idea w/o them, not really following through on the concept.

-Craig

Anthony said...

IIRC, Siegel and Shuster pitched Superboy to DC as entertainment (not educational), DC rejected the idea, then went with the idea a few years later (probably on the heels of seeing how popular Captain Marvel Jr. was for their competition, plus kid heroes in general), without those two's permission (or compensation). Thus prompting a big part of the reason for their lawsuit against DC.

Re: Filmation series: since (exclusive to Earth-One) Mera and Aqualad are in those, the Filmation series is presumably on Earth-One (with an Earth-One version of Tusky in tow).