Comics Weekend "The Show-Off of the Sea" by Bob Haney(?) and Ramona Fradon.It's Adventure Sunday!Martha Kent is gonna show us Superboy's invulnerable diapers! What a scoop!Aquaman books yet another sweet TV gig in this month's adventure:...
Comics Weekend "The Show-Off of the Sea" by Bob Haney(?) and Ramona Fradon.It's Adventure Sunday!Martha Kent is gonna show us Superboy's invulnerable diapers! What a scoop!Aquaman books yet another sweet TV gig in this month's adventure: Once again Aquaman is accused of ruining the show, leaving the Sea King only to sputter a lame apology. He's warned that if he tries the same shtick during the Moby Dick scene, the whole episode will be ruined.The day of filming arrives, and Aquaman--dressed as Ahab--approaches his whale pal, who is playing the title character:...and so ends another adventure with Aquaman!Not one of Aquaman's most compelling adventures, hinging as it does on the idea that Captain Wood didn't see him blink--a minor detail impossible to convey effectively in comic book form. So when it's the big reveal at the end, it seems like a real stretch.And again with the smugglers! It's 1957 for Neptune's Sake, it's time for aliens and super-villains--smugglers seem like such a quaint notion, and this group is so lame they get defeated entirely off-panel.In contrast to the story, Ramona Fradon pulls off one of her nicest art jobs--I love seeing Aquaman in all those different get-ups (the splash page is especially nice), and I can't be the only one that wonders why she never got a chance to tackle an issue of Classics Illustrated. Something by Herman Mellville, perhaps?
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