] type='image/vnd.microsoft.icon'/>

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Adventure Comics #117 - June 1947

sg
Comics Weekend "The Flying Dutchman!" by Don Cameron(?) and Louis Cazeneuve.

It's Adventure Sunday!

Aquaman and the sea's greatest legend meet:
sg
sg
sg
sg
Aquaman has some porpoise pals drag the "Flying Dutchman" into a clump of seaweed, leaving it trapped. Aquaman then finds a nearby windjammer and finds its filled with stolen loot!

He takes care of the crooked crew (who are waiting for further instructions from their boss) and then goes back aboard The Fantasy:
sg
sg
...and so ends another adventure with Aquaman!


Rex Collier comes so close to yelling "And my plan would have worked, too--if it hadn't been for that meddling Aquaman!"

I really love Rex's last line: "I couldn't bear the thought of being poor!" I hear ya, pal--but there must have been easier way to be a crook than that. Especially when it involves tangling with the Sovereign of the Seas, Aquaman!

1 comment:

Anthony said...

A big turn-around from last week's "it's OK to pillage fragile ecosystems, kids!" story. ;-)

And yes, perhaps the villain would've said the famous "Scooby Doo" line, if Scooby's creators (Joe Ruby and Ken Spears) weren't in grade school when this story was published. (Maybe they read this comic as kids?)

Re: Superboy on the cover: This issue has Superboy save an inventor's son (who's also an amateur inventor) from a pair of crooks. The cover sort-of-happens in the story (before Superboy punches one of the crooks through a wooden wall!). At least the artist remembered to have Clark wear his glasses in this story (unlike the last issue)...