![]() is already dead when they get him out of the suffocating bubble. He disrupts Black Manta's plans, but it's too late. Unfortunately for Aquaman, it doesn't go that way this time. If you'd ever read a superhero story before, you'd fully expect Aquaman to find a way to save his son without hurting Aqualad, and for everything to be just fine by the end of the comic. Manta does the sort of thing that supervillains do all the time, by kidnapping Aquababy and trapping him in a bubble where he'll suffocate unless Aquaman and Aqualad fight to the death. The two do fight, while Aquaman looks for solutions to get everybody out of the situation. In Adventure Comics #452, Aquaman has a showdown with his greatest villain, Black Manta. Aquaman's happy undersea fairy tale life with his perfect Aqua-family was coming to its end. Fighting Nazis gave a huge number of costumed heroes plenty to do, but once that battle was over, the superhero craze started to die down.Īs the 1980s drew near, comics were determined to grow up a bit, taking on darker themes and more serious stories. In the 1940s he was simply too busy fighting Nazi U-boat captains to have that complex a backstory. It was only later stories that made Aquaman first Atlantean and then the heir to the Atlantean throne. So this version of Aquaman isn't Atlantean at all, although he was raised in a deserted city that might have once been Atlantis. Using the ancient science of that forgotten civilization, he raised Aquaman to live comfortably under the sea, down to breathing water and talking to sea life. ![]() Aquaman's mother died when he was a baby, and his father took him to live under the sea, in a water-tight building that was part of a long-abandoned city under the sea that he'd found. As he relates in flashback in that story, his father was a world-famous undersea explorer and researcher. ![]() ![]() Everybody knows that Aquaman's from Atlantis, but in his first appearance in 1941's More Fun Comics #73, that wasn't the case at all.
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