It's Adventure Sunday!
Not sure why a second flying boy is all that exciting, when you've had Superboy around for years, but whatever.
We know Aquaman to be a humble, unassuming hero. But that all changes this month:
Aquaman dismisses the news of "T.N.T." Dillon, still concerned with his advertising campaign, going so far as to hang a banner across town for all to see, telling them of his next sea-based trick.
Meanwhile, the scrungy Dillon is happy to see all this, professing that the Sea King is falling "right into his hands":
Meanwhile, the scrungy Dillon is happy to see all this, professing that the Sea King is falling "right into his hands":
...and with that, so ends another adventure for Aquaman!
Yet another story where it seems like Aquaman is being a big jerk...but of course we all learn that the Sea King is merely performing a ruse to draw some bad guy out into the open. You'd think people would have more faith in the guy by now.
Art-wise, I love the two profiles Ramona Fradon pulls off in panel two of page two: that woman looks so cheesed off at Aquaman, and that shot of Arthur annoyingly pointing at himself makes me laugh.
Little known fact: This issue of Adventure Comics was brought to you by Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce.
Yet another story where it seems like Aquaman is being a big jerk...but of course we all learn that the Sea King is merely performing a ruse to draw some bad guy out into the open. You'd think people would have more faith in the guy by now.
Art-wise, I love the two profiles Ramona Fradon pulls off in panel two of page two: that woman looks so cheesed off at Aquaman, and that shot of Arthur annoyingly pointing at himself makes me laugh.
Little known fact: This issue of Adventure Comics was brought to you by Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce.
2 comments:
Had to look up what "Sterling Cooper etc. etc." was, not ever having watched "Mad Men." Not that the Earth-2 Sea King needs an ad agency, as he's still active long after nearly all his All-Star Squadron buddies have retired/long since left the scene. ;-)
Wonder if Aquaman ever broke it to "TNT Dillon" that TNT and dynamite are two separate types of explosives...
Re: Superboy: Given the only other noteworthy active superhero's the far-from-Smallville/yet-to-be-introduced Aquaboy, maybe Smallville's just surprised to see *any* active super-type other than Superboy. Anyway, this issue's plot sees Superboy stymied by crooks who fly through the air with help from statues of famous flyers of the past. I don't write 'em, I just report 'em...
Viva Adventure Sunday!
Too bad Sterling Cooper didn't represent Aquaman for real. he might've scored a well-deserved cover of Adventure for a change.
James Chatterton
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