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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2017 10:43:49 GMT -5
 Script by David Michelinie. Art & cover by Jim Aparo.The cover says it all! Aquaman goes after Manta. Meanwhile General Horgan is kidnapped by the Fisherman. The Fisherman needs to know where NATO's secret spy submarine sank. Aquaman is captured by Manta. It looks like Manta will kill Aquaman also until one of Manta's men (Durham) revolts & rescues Aquaman. Aquaman & Manta fight & just before Aquaman is about to kill Manta, Manta asks for mercy. Aquaman struggles with his conscience & ends up sparing Manta's life. He turns Manta & his men over to the authorities & with a heavy heart gets ready to return home to face Mera.   The conclusion of the Manta story. Brutal & action packed. You felt Aquaman's grief & anger. Coming up next: Aquaman's frustration mounts as he has to deal with the Fisherman & Kobra before getting back to Mera... |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2017 15:14:17 GMT -5
 Script by David Michelinie. Art by Jim Aparo. Aquaman returns to the Aquacave & finds Mera missing (she went back to Atlantis). Instead he finds the Fisherman waiting to ambush him. Aquaman is overcome & wakes up tied to a modified solar panel. It is affixed to a lighthouse. When the lighthouse's lamp shines thru it will burn Aquaman resulting in a painful death. As Aquaman struggles against his ropes he realizes the lighthouse he is tied to is the one he grew up in... He recalls his time as a child. The stories of how his parents met. His mother telling them she was from Atlantis. First his mother's death then his father's death years later. With his strength fading he sends out a weak telepathic burst & hermit carbs scrabble up the side of the lighthouse & use their claws to loosen his ropes. As the lamp starts to burn him he breaks free & leaps off the lighthouse into the ocean restoring his strength. He then goes after the Fisherman who has already left the scene...to be continued.   |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2017 15:26:38 GMT -5
One of my favorite issues in this arc. Michelinie nails what makes Aquaman a hero. Still grieving the death of his son he is overcome by a villain. He could just give up...but his sense of responsibility wins out & with his last gasp of strength he pulls free with the aid of his marine "friends". Michelinie also manages to recap Aquaman's origin but also tug a little at the reader's heartstrings with those last 2 pages.
And speaking of the last 2 pages...I showed them in the above post because Aparo was a master. He "sells" Michelinie's story with the art. You can almost feel the heat coming off the solar panel & Aquaman's pain as he frees himself. It is beautifully rendered.
Next issue: Aquaman goes after the Fisherman. And the return of the Scavenger.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2017 20:17:01 GMT -5
 Script by David Michelinie. Art by Jim Aparo. Aquaman is closing in on the Fisherman & gets fired on by NATO ships in the area. They are protecting the sunken spy submarine that the Fisherman is attempting to steal. When Aquaman tries to stop the Fisherman & they are fighting the Scavenger shows up & steals the sub. Aquaman defeats the Fisherman, turns him over to NATO & goes after the Scavenger...   This was Aparo's last issue. Don Newton would start as the new artist next issue. I thought Michelinie did a good job wrapping up a plot & starting a new one to keep delaying Aquaman getting back to Mera. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2017 7:04:28 GMT -5
 Cover art by Jim Aparo. Script by David Michelinie. Pencils by Don Newton. Inks by John Celardo. Aquaman fights the Scavenger. When he seems to beat him Kobra intervenes.   Fairly standard story until Kobra shows up. Kobra was the head of a terrorist cult. He popped up in a fair number of DC books at that time. Also I hated it when I opened the book & Aparo wasn't the artist. I liked Don Newton's art. I had last seen his art on Charlton's Phantom. But I liked Aparo more. It was a letdown especially with an amazing Aparo cover. Next issue would have Batman in it & I loved Newton's style on Batman. Also Bob McLeod takes over as inker. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2017 19:57:53 GMT -5
 Cover art by Jim Aparo. Script by David Michelinie. Pencils by Don Newton. Inks by Bob McLeod. The issue starts with Batman & Aquaman fighting members of the Kobra Cult. Green Lantern helps track down the leader. The 3 of them break into where General Horgan is being held & come face to face with the Kobra leader! Kobra is defeated, the hostages are freed & the plans to poison Portugal are stopped. However Kobra manages to escape. This would be Michelinie's last issue. He wraps up the storyline that delayed Aquaman's return to Mera. As we will see next issue when Paul Kupperberg takes over as writer that the delays will strain their marriage even further. This issue also showed Aquaman working with Batman & Green Lantern. The change in inkers really elevates Newton's art although I still wish Aparo had done the art on this Batman/Aquaman team up.   Only two more issues left! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2017 20:14:55 GMT -5
 Cover art by Jim Aparo. Script by Paul Kupperberg. Pencils by Don Newton. Inks by Bob McLeod.Aquaman FINALLY reunites with Mera. Mera lashes out in anger at Aquaman blaming him for their son's death. Vulko advises Aquaman to leave so Mera can calm down. Aquaman leaves with Topo. Topo is attacked & Aquaman lets his anger loose on the attacker... Seaquake! However he is overcome & is tied to Seaquake's sub which will destroy Atlantis. Mera sees Aquaman tied to the sub & protects him with a hard water shield. Together they overcome Seaquake & discover he is a robot! Aquaman & Mera reconcile. Kupperberg takes over as writer. He would continue as writer (along with Newton on pencils) of Aquaman when his series went back to Adventure Comics #460.   There was a subtle change in the title with Kupperberg. Mostly his style of dialogue was different from Michelinie. Newton was becoming more comfortable with his art style on Aquaman. I felt Mera's anger. Aquaman's frustration. Vulko's helplessness. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2017 21:22:14 GMT -5
 Cover art by Jim Aparo. Script by Paul Kupperberg. Pencils by Don Newton. Inks by Dave Hunt. Ocean Master appears & fights Aquaman. He reveals he sent Seaquake. He wants something that is under Atlantis. Aqualad arrives back in Atlantis in time to help. Ocean Master finds a fissure Seaquake made that leads under Atlantis. Aquaman, Mera & Aqualad go after Ocean Master to the ruins of the original Atlantis buried under modern Atlantis. There Aquaman & Ocean Master fight again. Ocean Master finds an Atlantean super weapon but is overcome by Aquaman. The last page reunites Aquaman, Mera & Aqualad.  The epilogue: The Aqua Team is back together. Aquaman deals with his half brother. The End. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2017 21:34:03 GMT -5
Aquaman #64 was canceled due to the DC Implosion. Many titles were folded into Adventure Comics or World's Finest Dollar Comics format. Aquaman returned to his "home" in Adventure Comics #460 with Kupperberg & Newton remaining as the creative team. The stories then went in a different direction.
This series was written at a time when comics were not written for a trade collection. So they were a little "disjointed". But overall there was a theme & a horrific event that occurred. Aquaman got to deal with a lot of his classic villains. He was deposed as King. His marriage with Mera was strained. His relationship with Aqualad was damaged. His son died. That was a lot of story packed into issues that only contained 7 pages, 11 pages or 17 pages. It was told by 6 writers & 3 pencillers. At the time it was told it was a shocking story that readers remember years later.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2017 22:07:04 GMT -5
Aquaman #64 was canceled due to the DC Implosion. Many titles were folded into Adventure Comics or World's Finest Dollar Comics format. Aquaman returned to his "home" in Adventure Comics #460 with Kupperberg & Newton remaining as the creative team. The stories then went in a different direction. This series was written at a time when comics were not written for a trade collection. So they were a little "disjointed". But overall there was a theme & a horrific event that occurred. Aquaman got to deal with a lot of his classic villains. He was deposed as King. His marriage with Mera was strained. His relationship with Aqualad was damaged. His son died. That was a lot of story packed into issues that only contained 7 pages, 11 pages or 17 pages. It was told by 6 writers & 3 pencillers. At the time it was told it was a shocking story that readers remember years later. Well written and it's so sad when they did this to him. |
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