It's Adventure Sunday!
That marauding mountebank, that pirate of plunder, that scurvy scallywag, Blackjack, returns to thwart the sovereign of the seas, Aquaman!
Aquaman is blinded by some high-powered lights of Blackjack's, and he has to dodge their poisoned darts while swimming blind!
He then calls a finny friend, an octopus, out of a nearby cave, and has it shoot a cloud of black ink to make the odds even. Knocking two of Blackjack's men out by bonking their heads together, Blackjack reveals one more trick, a group of armed henchmen laying in wait inside giant seashells(!) who begin to fire on Aquaman!
He then calls a finny friend, an octopus, out of a nearby cave, and has it shoot a cloud of black ink to make the odds even. Knocking two of Blackjack's men out by bonking their heads together, Blackjack reveals one more trick, a group of armed henchmen laying in wait inside giant seashells(!) who begin to fire on Aquaman!
...and so ends another adventure with Aquaman!
Once again, Blackjack is a miserable failure as a supervillain. His "plan" is no more than a series of blunt, dull attacks that Aquaman has escaped a hundred times before. And why, oh why would you try and take out Aquaman underwater?!? That's like challenging Muhammad Ali to a fight, and insisting you do it inside a boxing ring with gloves on. Sheesh.
And I have to say, his pronouncement that he would be "King of the Seven Seas", if not for Aquaman, is less than convincing.
Once again, Blackjack is a miserable failure as a supervillain. His "plan" is no more than a series of blunt, dull attacks that Aquaman has escaped a hundred times before. And why, oh why would you try and take out Aquaman underwater?!? That's like challenging Muhammad Ali to a fight, and insisting you do it inside a boxing ring with gloves on. Sheesh.
And I have to say, his pronouncement that he would be "King of the Seven Seas", if not for Aquaman, is less than convincing.
1 comment:
Nice to see the villain/his henchmen/the scientist actually *live* this week (vs. death via nuclear annihilation or giant rabbits). ;-)
Re: Superboy: Despite the cover showing summer in the-town-not-yet-named-Smallville, it's a Christmas story: similar plot as before (Superboy helps a department store worker play Santa), but this time, he also thwarts a heavy-set gangster also trying to get the job for his own ends.
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