{"id":32958,"date":"2025-05-25T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T08:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=32958"},"modified":"2025-05-24T19:06:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T19:06:22","slug":"dc-finest-aquaman-the-king-of-atlantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2025\/05\/25\/dc-finest-aquaman-the-king-of-atlantis\/","title":{"rendered":"DC Finest: Aquaman – The King of Atlantis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Robert Bernstein & Ramona Fradon<\/strong>, with Jack Miller<\/strong>, Joe Millard<\/strong>, Otto Binder<\/strong>, George Kashdan<\/strong>, Bob Haney<\/strong>, Nick Cardy<\/strong>, Kurt Schaffenberger<\/strong>, Curt Swan<\/strong>, Jim Mooney<\/strong>, Sheldon Moldoff<\/strong>, Stan Kaye<\/strong>, Charles Paris<\/strong> & various (DC Comics)
\nISBN: 978-1-77952-989-3 (TPB)<\/p>\n

This book includes Discriminatory Content<\/strong> produced in less enlightened times.<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a big year for comics anniversaries, and we can\u2019t let this guy go unmentioned. This epic compilation is one of the long-awaited DC Finest<\/strong> editions: full colour continuations of their chronolgically curated monochrome Showcase Presents<\/strong> line, delivering \u201caffordably priced, large-size (comic book dimensions and generally around 600 pages) paperback collections\u201d. Whilst primarily and understandably concentrating on superheroes, later releases will also cover genre selections like horror and war books, and themed compendia. Sadly, they\u2019re not yet available digitally, as were the last decade\u2019s Bronze, Silver & Golden Age collections, but we live in hope…<\/em><\/p>\n

Aquaman<\/strong> is that oddest of comic book phenomena: a survivor. One of the few superheroes to carry on in unbroken exploits since the Golden Age, the Sea King has endured endless cancellations, reboots and makeovers in the name of trendy relevance and fickle fashion but has somehow always recovered: coming back fresher, stronger and more intriguing. He\u2019s also one of the earliest comic champions to make the jump to cartoon TV stardom\u2026<\/p>\n

Created by Mort Weisinger & Paul Norris, Aquaman<\/strong> began his reign in in the wake of and in response to Timely Comics\u2019 barnstorming antihero Namor the<\/strong> Sub-Mariner<\/strong>. The watery latecomer debuted in More Fun Comics<\/strong> #73 (November 1941) beside fellow born survivor Green Arrow<\/strong>. Strictly second-string for most of his career, the Marine marvel nevertheless swam on far beyond many stronger features, rendered with style by Norris, Louis Cazeneuve, John Daly, Charles Paris, and ultimately young Ramona Fradon, who took over drawing in 1954.<\/p>\n

The Fifties Superhero Interregnum saw Fradon (countless genre anthology tales, The Brave & The Bold<\/strong>, Metamorpho<\/strong>, Fantastic Four<\/strong>, Super Friends<\/strong>, Plastic Man<\/strong>, Freedom Fighters<\/strong>, Brenda Starr<\/strong>, SpongeBob Comics<\/strong>) assume full art chores, by which time Aquaman was settled like a barnacle in a regular Adventure Comics <\/strong>back-up slot, offering slick, smart and extremely genteel aquatic action. She was to draw every single adventure until 1960, making the feature one of the best looking if only mildly thrilling hero strips of the era.<\/p>\n

By then, Aquaman had settled into a nice regular back-up slot in Adventure Comics<\/strong> that Fradon drew without missing a beat until 1961: indelibly stamping the submersible stalwart with her unique blend of charm and sleek competence. Month after month, page by page the hero inexhaustibly solved maritime mysteries, crushed nautical naughtiness, wandered and time-travelled, rescuing fish and people from subsea disaster, solving whatever crimes he came across and generally promoting American paternal niceness.<\/p>\n

In 1956, Showcase<\/strong> #4 rekindled the reading public\u2019s imagination and slowly but surely spawned a fresh zest for costumed crimebusters. As well as re-imagining its lost Golden Age stalwarts, National\/DC undertook to update and remake its hoary survivors. Records are incomplete, sadly, so we don\u2019t always know who wrote what, but this compilation definitely gathers a wealth of Aquaman strips from Adventure Comics<\/strong> #229-284 (October 1956-May 1961), plus short yarns from Superman\u2019s Girlfriend Lois Lane<\/strong> #12 (October 1959), Action Comics<\/strong> #272 (January 1961), Detective Comics<\/strong> #293-300 (July 1961- February 1962) and World\u2019s Finest Comics<\/strong> #125 (May 1962), plus the longer stories from Showcase<\/strong> #30-33 (January\/February to July\/August 1961), and at long last those from Aquaman<\/strong> #1-3 (cover-dated January\/February -May\/June 1962)…<\/p>\n

Without preamble we dive right into a quartet of sagas by an author unknown, with Adventure Comics<\/strong> #229 revealing how the Sea King spends time in crime-infested Canadian waters and auditions a number of sea creatures to seeking to be \u2018Aquaman\u2019s Undersea Partner\u2019<\/em>, after which smugglers use a stolen shrinking ray to briefly turn the hero into \u2018The Tom Thumb Aquaman\u2019<\/em> prior to being his being perplexed and endangered by a computor\u2019s prediction of \u2018Three Fates for Aquaman\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Although a citizen of the world, the Marine Marvel was American by default, decent by choice and patriotic by inclination, always helping law men and peacekeepers. Thus AC<\/strong> #232 (January 1957) wryly describes how the Sea King is asked to boost recruitment by joining a US ship\u2019s crew incognito in \u2018Aquaman Joins the Navy!\u2019<\/em>\"\"
\nAquaman endured public scorn and mockery after comedy impersonator Wackyman<\/em> used high tech mecahnical sea creatures to lampoon the hero. However, the reasons for the skits of \u2018The Sea Clown\u2019<\/em> were far from innocent, after which Jack Miller tapped into UFO fever, revealing how aliens from Pluto demand the Sea King fill \u2018The Super-Aquarium\u2019<\/em> with his \u201cfinny friends\u201d before an unknown writer made him \u2018The Show-off of the Sea\u2019<\/em>, ruining an actor\u2019s TV big break… but for the very best of reasons.<\/p>\n

In Adventure<\/strong> #236 Otto Binder detailed a battle against a crooked shipping magnate who unleashed \u2018The Iceberg of Doom\u2019<\/em> before four more uncredited tales swiftly ensued. Chemical pollution was the reason behind Aquaman\u2019s brutal cruelty in \u2018The Secret of the Sea King\u2019<\/em>, a plot to mine shipping lanes was crushed in \u2018The Floating Doom\u2019<\/em>, and \u2018The Voyage of the Good Ship Aquaman\u2019<\/em> finds the big hearted hero helping an elderly rescue ship skipper before #240 reveals how he helps a children\u2019s author complete \u2018The Alphabet Book of the Sea!\u2019<\/em> whilst Miller wrote \u2018The Mutiny Against Aquaman\u2019 <\/em>wherein a crooked lawyer poisons his sea pals to facilitate cheating a young man out of an inheritance…<\/p>\n

Editorial wisdom at the time decreed comics were ephemeral throway fodder that not even the readership cared about, so many themes and plots resurfaced over the course of months. In \u2018The Amazing Feats of Aqua-Melvin\u2019<\/em> another, different clown is tranfused with the hero\u2019s blood and develops similar powers, but not the acumen to realise he\u2019s being conned by crooks, whilst in 243 \u2018Aquaman\u2019s Amazing Bets!\u2019<\/em> the Sea King teaches a gambler\/conman a lesson before Robert Bernstein breaks hearts by unleashing \u2018The Copy Cat Creature!\u2019 <\/em>– a fabulous loving beastie from primeval times that adores Aquaman but is simply too big and boisterous to allowed to live in the modern world<\/p>\n

In #245, George Kashdan introduces \u2018The Sorceror of the Sea\u2019 <\/em>who outpowers the watery wonder, just as he\u2019s trying to put modern pirates out of business, before we visit \u2018The Town That Went Underwater\u2019<\/em> where an apparently obsessed Aquaman is determined to make every inhaitant visit his new underwater theme park. Of course, there is deadly reason behind his antics…<\/p>\n

Miller detailed \u2018Aquaman\u2019s Super Sea-Squad!\u2019<\/em> next as his top-trained fish pals help stave off nuclear disaster and a month later wrote how he became \u2018The Traitor of the Seven Seas!\u2019<\/em>: allowing aliens to abduct his beloved sea creatures, after which Bernstein described how aseries of head blows turn the hero evil and greedy. Luckily, faithful octopus Topo<\/em> is amatch for the piratical Barnacle Gang exploiting the sea change in \u2018Wanted: Aqua-Crook!\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

For Adventure Comics<\/strong> #250, Joe Millard & Fradon delivered \u2018The Guinea Pig of the Sea\u2019<\/em> as the Sea King is abducted by a well-intentioned but obsessive researcher fed up with waiting for a moment in the hero\u2019s hectic schedule to open up, prior to being catapulted into the future to find Earth \u2018A World Without Water!\u2019<\/em> – and remember at this juncture Aquaman needed water every 60 munutes or he would die…<\/p>\n

Millard gave way to Miller for a salty tale of Aquaman\u2019s plight as \u2018The Robinson Crusoe of the Sea\u2019<\/em> (Adventure Comics<\/strong> #252, September 1958), when a chemical spill renders the Sea King allergic to seawater, offering a charming sequence of crisis management stunts by Topo\u2026<\/p>\n

Now an affable, dedicated seagoing nomad with a tendency to find trouble, Aquaman braves \u2018The Ocean of 1,000,000 B.C.\u2019<\/em> (by Bernstein in AC<\/strong> #253, October 1958) after swimming through a time warp, helping a seashore-dwelling caveman against a marauding dragon before finding his way back to the future, in time to end \u2018The Menace of the Electric Man\u2019<\/em> – a rare dark drama by Miller involving an escaped convict who gains deadly voltaic powers…<\/p>\n

Three from Berstein begin with whimsical fantasy \u2018Aquaman\u2019s Double Trouble!\u2019<\/em> as too many crises at once lead to sea God Neptune stepping in for the hero whilst in \u2018The Ordeal of Aquaman!\u2019<\/em> crooks maroon the hero in an \u201carid desert\u201d only to discover how water aware the hero is, prior to battling a crook surgically altered and modified to become \u2018The Imitation Aquaman!\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Miller wrote a brace of action tales beginning with #258\u2019s \u2018The Incredible Fish of Doctor Danton!\u2019<\/em> as Aquaman and a young scientist battle sea beasts mutated by atomic radiation, before the hero is cast out of his body by a crook and must take psychic residence in a fish before ending up \u2018The Octopus Man!\u2019<\/em> and regaining his own form…<\/p>\n

As the Silver Age took true hold, the Sea King\u2019s initial revamp began in Adventure Comics<\/strong> #260 (May 1959) with Bernstein & Fradon\u2019s \u2018How Aquaman Got His Powers!\u2019<\/em> with the Sea King interfering in US naval manoeuvres to keep Atlantis safe from discovery and harm. From here on, the hero\u2019s nebulous origin – offspring of a union between a human (American) lighthouse keeper and refugee from the embargoed undersea city – was expanded upon and filled out. Eventually, all the trappings of the modern superhero manifested: themed hideout, steadfast sidekick and even supervillains! Moreover, greater attention was paid to continuity and the concept of one shared universe…<\/p>\n

In #261, Bernstein pits the hero against a deranged lion tamer in \u2018Aquaman Duels the Animal Master!\u2019<\/em>, and has him launch \u2018The Undersea Hospital!\u2019<\/em> for ailing sea creatures a month later, before Miller has the hero bring democracy and fair elections to an island nation in AC<\/strong> #263\u2019s \u2018The Great Ocean Election!\u2019<\/em> prior to Bernstein taking us to New Venice (a US city with canals not roads) where \u2018Aquaman and His Sea-Police!\u2019<\/em> teach rude and uncaring malefactors how to use boats properly and not litter their submerged marine metropolis…<\/p>\n

For Adventure <\/strong>#265 (October 1959) he & Fradon exposed \u2018The Secret of the Super Safe!\u2019<\/em> detailing a plan to keep the subsea stalwart in soggy isolation whilst dealing with a counterfeiter and blackmailers, before an early crossover heralded Aquaman\u2019s entrance into the wider DC universe.<\/p>\n

DC supported the popular 1950s Adventures of Superman <\/strong>TV show with a number of successful spin-off titles. Superman\u2019s Girlfriend Lois Lane<\/strong> #12 (October 1959) featured \u2018The Mermaid of Metropolis\u2019<\/em> wherein the plucky \u201cnews hen\u201d suffers crippling injuries in a scuba-diving accident. On hand to save her is Aquaman and a surgeon who turns her (without her permission or even knowledge!) into a mermaid so she can live a worthwhile life without legs beneath the waves…<\/p>\n

I know, I know: but just accepting the adage \u201cSimpler Times\u201d often helps me at times like this. In all seriousness, this silly story by Bernstein is a key moment in the development of DC\u2019s shared universe continuity. The fact that it\u2019s drawn by Kurt Schaffenberger – one of the most accomplished artists ever to work in American comics – makes it even more adorable, for all its silliness; and you can\u2019t make me change my mind…\"\"
\nAs National\/DC began cautiously remodelling its superhero survivors, amongst the first to feel the benefits were Green Arrow<\/strong> and the Subsea Sentinel. The program included a new origin and expanded cast for each and here (AC<\/strong> #266, November 1959) Bernstein & Fradon tested the waters as \u2018Aquaman Meets Aquagirl!\u2019<\/em> This offered more information on fabled modern Atlantis whilst testing the waters (Sorry! Not sorry) for a possible sidekick. Remember, in those days the Sea King spent most of his time explaining things to an octopus…<\/p>\n

In Adventure Comic<\/strong>s #267 the editors tried a novel experiment. At this time the title starred Superboy<\/strong> plus two back-up features – generally Aquaman<\/strong> and Green Arrow<\/strong>. That issue\u2019s seagoing saga \u2018The Manhunt on Land!\u2019<\/em> saw villain Shark Norton<\/em> trade territories with GA\u2019s foe The Wizard<\/em>. A rare crossover with both parts written by Bernstein; the heroes worked the same case with the Sea King facing Norton under open skies whilst the Emerald Archer pursued his foe beneath the waves in his own exploit. Illustrated by the great Lee Elias, \u2018The Underwater Archers!\u2019<\/em> was a fitting climax to the test, but sadly the arrow portion of the show didn\u2019t make it into this tome, being apparently six pages too many…<\/p>\n

In the next issue\u2019s \u2018The Adventures of Aquaboy!\u2019<\/em> we saw the early years of the Sea King, and following that, permanent sidekick Aqualad <\/strong>was introduced in #269 (February 1960) as Bernstein & Fradon completed the refit by introducing permanent junior partner \u2018The Kid from Atlantis!\u2019: <\/em>a young, purple-eyed outcast from the forbidden city possessing the same powers as Aquaman but terrified of fish… at least until the Sea King applies a little firm but kindly psychology. By the end of the tale the little guy has happily adapted and would help patrol the endless oceans – and add a child\u2019s awestruck perspective to the mix – for nearly a decade thereafter.
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\nWith Bernstein & Fradon firmly in control, in quick succession came birthday surprise \u2018The Menace of Aqualad!\u2019<\/em> (which premiered the Aqua-Cave), battle against mad scientist Captain Noah<\/em> who was happy to trigger \u2018The Second Deluge!\u2019<\/em> in his quest for riches, and first proper supervillain \u2018The Human Flying Fish!\u2019<\/em>: a convict rebuilt by a different mad scientist to be Aquaman\u2019s evil counterpart and superior. After all that the heroes took a breather from evil to swim \u2018Around the World in 80 Hours!\u2019<\/em> only to face constant peril as all Earth\u2019s seagoing crooks used their planned course as a killing ground…<\/p>\n

Miller introduced spoiled rich brat Dale Conroy<\/em> who spends millions to become the hero\u2019s \u2018Aqua-Queen!\u2019<\/em> in #274, prior to intriguing mystery \u2018The Interplanetary Mission!\u2019<\/em> in Adventure Comics<\/strong> #275. This was published mere months after the Justice League of America<\/strong> debuted in The Brave and the Bold<\/strong> #28, wherein aliens ask for Aquaman\u2019s help on a rescue mission in space. They are, in fact, human crooks seeking an irresistible weapon and hoping to dupe the bush league hero: securing Kryptonite by to use against Superman<\/strong>. The Man of Steel did not appear, but nets of shared continuity were being gradually interwoven. Heroes would no longer work in assured solitude…<\/p>\n

It was back to business as usual for \u2018The Aqua-thief of the Seven Seas!\u2019<\/em> as Aquaman must clear his name after being framed for stealing a chest full of diamonds, whilst a topical global sporting event prompts the Sea King to organise \u2018The Underwater Olympics\u2019<\/em> – even though he has ulterior motives that involve more Kryptonite and secret plans. In #278, poor \u2018Aqualad Goes to School!\u2019<\/em>, before proving he has no real need of education, after which cautionary tale \u2018Silly Sailors of the Sea!\u2019<\/em> see the seagoing heroes give wayward boat joyriders a lesson in responsibility. All of these light pieces were setting the scene for a really Big Event…<\/p>\n

Cover-dated January\/February 1961, Showcase<\/strong> #30 saw Jack Miller & Fradon vastly expand upon the origin of Aquaman in full-length epic \u2018The Creatures from Atlantis!\u2019<\/em> Here extra-dimensional creatures conquer the sunken civilisation and Aquaman and Aqualad infiltrate the forbidden city to save the so-superior beings who had always shunned them. From this point on, fanciful whimsy would be downplayed in favour of character-driven drama.
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\nThe epic reimagination is followed by another prototype team-up as seen in Action Comics<\/strong> #272 (January 1961) \u2018Superman\u2019s Rival Mental Man!\u2019<\/em>: a clever criminal-sting yarn by Jerry Siegel, Curt Swan & Stan Kaye, centring around Lois\u2019 unsuspected talents as a comic strip artist and career sidestep. Typically, her success as a cartoon creator somehow causes her invention \u201cMental Man\u201d to come to life and woo her… or does he?<\/p>\n

Back in Adventure Comics<\/strong> #280 \u2018The Lost Ocean!\u2019 <\/em>finds the sea sentinels fighting a giant Jurassic centipede to save their favourite TV show before offering more of the same in Showcase<\/strong> #31 (March\/April 1961). Second full-length try-out \u2018The Sea Beasts from One Million B.C.\u2019<\/em> is a wild romp of fabulous creatures, dotty scientists and evolution rays presaging a new path for the Sea King, as Miller scripted the debut Aquaman yarn for comics veteran Nick Cardy. He would visually make Aquaman his own for the next half-decade.<\/p>\n

Adventure Comics<\/strong> #282 then delivered tense thriller \u2018One Hour to Doom!\u2019<\/em> Inked by Charles Paris, this was Fradon\u2019s last Aqua art job for nearly a year and a half, revealing how the heroes survive being trapped on land and away from life-sustaining water, before Showcase<\/strong> #32 (May\/June 1961) offered another spectacular epic as Miller & Cardy pull out all the stops for \u2018The Creature King of the Sea!\u2019<\/em>: an action-packed deadly duel against a monstrous villain with murder in mind.<\/p>\n

It segued into \u2018The Charge of Aquaman\u2019s Sea Soldiers!\u2019<\/em>, drawn by Jim Mooney in Adventure<\/strong> #284, with the salty stars and their finny legions battling Professor Snark<\/em>\u2019s scheme to convert Earth\u2019s ocean to fresh water. With this tale the series upped sticks for a new home, replaced by Tales of the Bizarro World<\/strong>. Aquaman and Aqualad were headed to the hind end of Detective Comics<\/strong>, beginning with #293 (July 1961) where they needed only six pages to solve Miller & Cardy\u2019s mystery of \u2018The Sensational Sea Scoops\u2019<\/em> uncovered by a reporter tracking a submarine pirates. All this time the artist – who had initially altered his drawing style to mirror Fradon – had been gradually reverting to his natural humanistic mode. By the time of fourth Showcase<\/strong> outing \u2018Prisoners of the Aqua-Planet\u2019<\/em> (#33), the Sea King was a rugged, burly He-Man, and his world – no matter how fantastic – now had an added edge of realism to it, even in this wild romp as the heroes are pressganged into an interplanetary war and shanghaied to a distant water-world…<\/p>\n

Detective <\/strong>#294\u2019s deceptively displayed \u2018The Fantastic Fish that Defeated Aquaman\u2019<\/em> whilst DC <\/strong>#295 saw our heroes defy \u2018The Curse of the Sea Hermit\u2019 <\/em>(Kashdan script), before a new month exposed \u2018The Mystery of Demon Island!\u2019 <\/em>by Miller and the unflagging Cardy. To accompany his more realistic art, and perhaps in honour of their new home, stories became – briefly – less fantasy oriented. \u2018Aqualad, Stand-In for a Star\u2019<\/em> – (#297 by Miller & Batman<\/strong> regular Sheldon Moldoff) was a standard hero-in-Hollywood crime caper, before Cardy returned to draw #298\u2019s\u2018The Secret Sentry of the Sea\u2019<\/em> – encompassing security duty at a secret international treaty signing…<\/p>\n

The next month saw another milestone. After two decades of continuous adventuring the Sea King finally got a comic book of his own. Aquaman <\/strong>#1 (January\/February 1962) was a 25-page fantasy thriller introducing one of the most controversial supporting characters in comics lore. Pixie-like Water-Sprite Quisp<\/em> was part of a strange trend for cute imps and elves who attached themselves to far too many heroes of the time, but his contributions in \u2018The Invasion of the Fire-Trolls\u2019 <\/em>and succeeding issues were numerous and obviously carefully calculated and considered…
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\nThe wanderer\u2019s residency in Detective Comics<\/strong> was coming to an end. In #299 the sea scions taught an old blowhard a lesson in tall-tale telling whilst #300\u2019s relic theft-&-recovery case \u2018The Mystery of the Undersea Safari!\u2019<\/em> was the last Aqua-caper before he moved again, this time to World\u2019s Finest Comics<\/strong>. However, prior to that, his own second issue appeared. \u2018Captain Sykes\u2019 Deadly Missions\u2019<\/em> is a lovely-looking thriller with fabulous monsters and a flamboyant pirate blackmailing the Sea King into retrieving deadly mystical artefacts.<\/p>\n

The World\u2019s Finest<\/strong> run started with #125\u2019s \u2018Aquaman\u2019s Super-Sidekick\u2019<\/em> by Miller & Cardy as the junior partner briefly becomes an unstoppable uncontrollable pintsized powerhouse before Aquaman<\/strong> #3 closes this compilation in grand style and full-length thrills as \u2018The Aquaman from Atlantis\u2019<\/em> offers more exposure for the lost city in a tale of traitors, treasures and time-travelling bandit who accidentally takes Aquaman back to the era of swords, sandals and strange creatures…<\/p>\n

The 72 adventures gathered here encompass and embrace a period of renewal, taking Aquaman from peripatetic back-up bit-player to his own comic book and the brink of TV stardom. The stories were intentionally undemanding fare, ranging from simply charming to simply bewildering examples of all-ages action to rank alongside the best the company offered at that time. That\u2019s what made them ideal templates for tales of later TV-spawned iterations like Super Friends<\/strong>, Batman: The Brave and the Bold<\/strong> and especially landmark sixties icon The Superman\/Aquaman Hour<\/strong>. Comics writers from those years include the abovementioned Bernstein, Binder, Miller, Millard, Kashdan, as well (possibly) as Bob Haney, Edmund Hamiliton, Jerry Coleman and other DC regulars. However at the start the art was always by Fradon, whose captivatingly clean economical line always made the pictures something special…<\/p>\n

DC has a long history of gentle, innocuous yarn-spinning with quality artwork. Fradon\u2019s Aquaman<\/strong> is one of the most neglected runs of such universally-accessible material, and it\u2019s a sheer pleasure to discover just how readable they still are. When the opportunity arises to compare her astounding work to the best of a stellar talent like as Nick Cardy, this book becomes a true fan\u2019s must-have item and even more so when the stories are still suitable for kids of all ages. Even though it\u2019s not complete and not available digitally yet, this is a landmark moment for all lovers of pure cartooning brilliance and all-ages adventure storytelling. Why not treat the entire family to a seaside spectacle of timelessly inviting adventure?
\n\u00a9 1956-1962, 2024 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Robert Bernstein & Ramona Fradon, with Jack Miller, Joe Millard, Otto Binder, George Kashdan, Bob Haney, Nick Cardy, Kurt Schaffenberger, Curt Swan, Jim Mooney, Sheldon Moldoff, Stan Kaye, Charles Paris & various (DC Comics) ISBN: 978-1-77952-989-3 (TPB) This book includes Discriminatory Content produced in less enlightened times. It\u2019s a big year for comics anniversaries, … <\/p>\n

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