AQUAMAN
AQUAMAN
Real Name: Orin, aka Arthur Curry
Class: Atlantean mutant
Occupation: Protector of the seas and oceans, superhero, former king of Poseidonis
Group Affiliation: Justice League of America, formerly Justice League of Atlantis
Known Relatives: Atlan (father), Atlanna (mother, deceased), Arthur, Jr. (son, deceased), Koryak (son), Mera (wife, separated), Orm (Ocean Master, half-brother), Tom Curry (adoptive father, deceased)
Aliases: Dweller in the Depths
Base of Operations: Atlantis
First Appearance: More Fun Comics #73 (November, 1941)
Powers: Aquaman could communicate with all forms of sea-life and depending on their temperament command them to follow his orders. He could breath on land or water and swim at speeds up to 100 mph. He possessed superhuman strength, invulnerability and speed, but needed to be immersed in water every few hours to maintain these powers. Aquaman couldn't be on land for over three hours at a time or he would be in danger of dying. Aquaman lost his left hand and replaced it for a time with a harpoon. He was later given a replacement hand made from water from the Secret Sea that had magical healing properties.
History: Aquaman was the son of Atlantean sorcerer Atlan and Atlanna. He was born with blond hair, which marked him as having the Curse of Kordax according to Atlantean myth. He was set loose in the ocean and ended up on Mercy Reef where he was discovered by lighthouse keeper Tom Curry, who adopted him. As an adult Aquaman became a superhero, operating by himself or as a member of the Justice League of America.
(Adventure Comics I #243) - South America; After saving a group of sailors from being drowned by a waterspout and returning them to their freighter, the Frisco Dawn, they asked Aquaman for a favor. All the sailors on the Dawn had lost loads of money to first mate Mr. Kipp, who loved to bet with them and always found a technicality that let him win. Aquaman challenged Kipp to a number of bets, with Kipp winning each time, until they bet on who would be the first person to find a man overboard. Kipp was worried about losing, so he took a lifeboat and fled from the Frisco Dawn. His lifeboat sank and he was forced to admit he was a man overboard so that Aquaman would save him. Kipp then returned all his ill-gotten earrings to his crew.
(Adventure Comics I #247) - The military shot a nuclear projectile into space, but it had a defective rocket and thus landed in the sea, where Aquaman found it. The military contacted Aquaman, telling him to bring the projectile to Pierce Island within three hours so they could deactivate it, otherwise it would detonate and irradiate the ocean. With time running short Aquaman assembled a “Super Sea-Squad” of various denizens of the deep to help him reach Pierce. Just as the device was about to explode, Aquaman launched it from the catapult of a Roman galleon stuck in the Sargasso, and had a whale near Pierce bring it to a gentle rest using its’ water-spot. The military deactivated the device; and Aquaman reminded them to thank his fishy friends for helping to avert disaster.
(Adventure Comics I #248) - Aliens demanded that Aquaman collect specimens of sea creatures for their cosmic aquarium, otherwise they would kill him. Thinking fast, Aquaman pretended to capture a number of his undersea friends, then slipped into a seaweed bed where the aliens couldn’t observe him, and switched the sea creatures for realistic dummies. Lopo, an octopus that wanted to be the first sea creature in space, volunteered to manipulate the dummies with his tentacles so they seemed alive, and the aliens flew off with their haul, none the wiser.
(Adventure Comics I #249) - After being conked on the head by a stray guided missile, Aquaman became amnesiac and was discovered by the Barnacle Gang, who he was on his way to arrest for smuggling. The Barnacle Gang sussed out the situation, and told Aquaman they were secret service men who needed Aquaman to recover treasures at the bottom of the sea, which was really contraband the Gang had to dump overboard during a run in with the coast guard. Aquaman salvaged the goods, then suffered another bump on the head which jogged his memory. The Barnacle Gag took Aquaman hostage, but he was rescued and the Gang was defeated by Aquaman’s pet octopus Lopo and an army of undersea creatures.
(Adventure Comics I #250) - Aquaman saved scientist Dr. Avry Rush’s boat from a waterspout, and Rush begged Aquaman to let him run a series of tests on Aquaman’s body to learn exactly how his powers worked. Aquaman participated in a battery of tests, but could never spend too much time with Rush because some sea emergency or other kept dragging him away. Rush got so frustrated that he locked Aquaman in a steel cage to keep him from running off. Rush went out to sea, and was nearly drowned during a storm before Aquaman learned of the predicament from some flying fish ad sent some whales to save Rush. Rush realized the error of his ways; humanity needed Aquaman more than science, and Aquaman accepted his apology.
(Adventure Comics I #251) - A government test of a new undersea nuclear weapon went awry, and Aquaman was caught in the blast, which hurled him into the year 6958. He awoke in the future city of Atlantica and learned that the vast majority of Earth’s water had dissipated after a nova exploded in Earth’s atmosphere, but that undersea creatures evolved and learned to live on land. A council of scientists offered their time machine up to Aquaman so he could return to his own time. After foiling crooks that aimed to steal the machine, Aquaman returned home. He was shaken by the experience; he never wanted to live to see an Earth that went dry.
(Adventure Comics I #253) - While charting an unexplored section of sea for the oceanographic society, Aquaman came upon a cave that housed a time warp, and Aquaman was sent into the distant past. He fought a number of dinosaurs and saved the life of a prehistoric man from a pterodactyl. Aquaman reentered the time warp and returned to his own time. He wondered if this adventure was real until he found cave art depicting the prehistoric man he saved shaking Aquaman’s hand.
(Adventure Comics I #255) - Aquaman had to cope with a number of sea disasters occurring at the same time. After each time he made a choice as to which disaster was the most urgent and returned to the lesser catastrophe he found that someone else had already saved the day. He noticed an old man in a boat following him around, and the man revealed himself as the Olympian god Neptune. Neptune revealed that he had been helping those in need during the rash of sea disasters, and told Aquaman he would be of assistance anytime Aquaman needed help, because Aquaman had proved a worthy king of the sea.
(Adventure Comics I #256) - Aquaman was captured by a group of smugglers he had been pursuing, and they dropped him in a desert. Aquaman nearly perished from lack of water before finding a nearby town where the citizens assisted him in staying alive. The smugglers went to the town and turned off the water supply, but Aquaman led them to a aquarium, where he renewed his vitality with water from the various exhibits, and had the sea creatures on display at the aquarium capture the smugglers.
(Justice League of America I #1) - Flash came upon Saranna and Jasonar, two refugees from Kalanor. Their home dimension had been conquered by the tyrant Despero, and Jasonar had perfected an anti-weapon device to disable Despero's arsenal. Flash summoned the JLofA and they prepared to use Jasonar's dimensional traveler to go to Kalanor, but Despero had ambushed Aquaman and the JLofA and held them in stasis in their hq. He planned to banish them to other dimensions, but couldn't affect Flash, who'd been exposed to the radiation of the dimensional traveler that made him immune to Despero's teleport beam. He challenged Flash to a variation of chess, using the JlLofA as pawns. he rigged the game with his mental powers, and each time Flash lost a pawn, a leaguer was teleported to another dimension. Flash lost and entered a dimensional traveler to the world of Narx. Aquaman and Green Lantern were sent to the water-planet Thanakon, which Despero was destroying with a flying burning glass. They saved the Thanakonians and left the planet, meeting up with other Leaguers who'd saved other worlds from destruction by Despero, and together they returned to Earth. Despero caught up with Jasonar and was about to take his anti-weapon device, when Snapper, who'd stowed away on Despero's traveler turned the anti-weapon on him, sapping his energy. The League allowed Jasonar to take Despero back to Kalanor as a prisoner.
(Justice League of America I #4) - Aquaman and the JLofA nominated Green Arrow as their new member when they received a message from the alien Carthan, who'd kidnapped the Arrow. he told the team he'd placed three engines of destruction around the world, and that it was up to them to disable them and free Arrow. Carthan was only posing as a villain, the tyrant Xandor had exiled him from his planet Dryanna, and the engines prevented him from leaving Earth. Flash and Aquaman disabled the engine in the Pacific Ocean that was causing Australia to sink into the ocean. The rest of the JLofA disabled the other two engines and freed Arrow, but Carthan imprisoned the team in a hollow diamond so he could explain that he was not a villain. Batman, who wasn't trapped, knocked him into the control panel of his ship, and Carthan couldn't dissipate the diamond. he showed Green Arrow the stress point of the diamond, and the archer used his skills to shatter the prison with a diamond-tipped arrow.
(Justice League of America I #5) - A gang of criminals escaped imprisonment, and the JLofA were challenged by them. Wonder Woman, Flash and Green Arrow confronted King Clock, Professor Menace and Captain Cold in an ice palace. After avoiding Clock's quicksand clock trap they forced the villains to flee. On the verge of capturing them Green Arrow shot arrows that caused an explosion, and his teammates thought he purposely sabotaged their capture. Aquaman, Martian Manhunter and Green Lantern dealt with the Getaway Mastermind, Electric Man and the Puppet Master, who caused deadly weather to slow down the heroes. As they pursued the villains’ plane, Green Arrow arrived, show more arrows that caused an explosion and knocked out the Leaguers. At hq the League accused him of being a traitor. He told them that he observed that Captain Cold, King Clock and Menace were robots rigged to explode, so he destroyed them before his teammates got in range. The Getaway Mastermind's ship had an explosive forcefield, so he activated it before the JLofA could reach it and be killed. The exonerated Arrow had already captured all the villains, but told the League he knew there was a real traitor among them. Green Lantern had been captured by Dr. Destiny and replaced by him, so they subdued "Green Lantern" and took him to the police. They walked into Destiny's trap, as he had a ship nearby that hit the League with an anti-gravity and will-deadener ray. He prepared to put them aboard a rocket ship, and with their wills gone they'd be helplessly floating in space forever. His prisoner Green Lantern escaped, because using the will-deadener on the League sapped power from the ray aimed at him. The League apprehended Destiny and closed the case.
(Justice League of America I #6) - Aquaman and the other members of the JLofA had an incident of bad luck on standard cases, but didn't realize their difficulties were caused by Prof. Amos Fortune, who was testing his Stimoluck that caused either good or bad luck in anyone it was aimed at. Letters to the JLofA came in requesting the League's help, and they found two worthy causes. Flash, Green Arrow and Martian Manhunter handled one case in which Hazel Deeping sought the fortune on her farm hidden by her grandfather because she needed the money to aid her grandparents. The grandfather left a clue in the form of a poem, but by the time they realized the treasure was in the farm's antique gateposts Fortune, with his luck boosted by the Stimoluck, had purchased them from Deeping. Fortunately the League had also found a valuable painting by Gilbert Stauart and a reservoir of oil on the farm. Aquaman, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman went to Sea Dunes to solve a series of robberies to a museum. The museum was built from an old castle and impenetrable, but the custodian Charles Hobart was using a fishing reel to steal pieces from the barred window. The put him in custody, but spotted Fortune taking off with other pieces Hobart had stolen and hidden in a cliff face. They pursued him, but Fortune managed to capture all the members of the JLofA through sheer luck, and he tied them to a Wheel of Misfortune that would destroy the human glands that gave people good luck and would cause the League to forever after have bad luck. The Wheel only affected human physiology, so Martian Manhunter was able to escape, disable the machine and defeat Amos Fortune.
(Justice League of America I #15) - Stone giant Untouchable Aliens stole military weapons and tried to eradicate Brasilia, Tokyo and Central City, but were foiled by Aquaman and the JLofA. Green Lantern probed their minds and brought the League to their world, an Earth separated from ours because it existed one minute into the future. The Aliens set off a cobalt bomb at the same time our Earth tested a nuclear bomb, weakening the barrier between world. The Alien's cities were going to merge with the three Earth cities they tried to destroy, because two objects occupying the same time and space would be disastrous. They could not move their own cities because the cities were rigged to explode if tampered with, a failsafe against invasion. Green Lantern used his ring to completely separate the Alien's Earth from ours, preventing catastrophe.
Aquaman became King of Poseidonis, married Mera and had a son with her named Arthur, Jr. His son was murdered by his arch-foe Black Manta. The death of his son and a separation from his wife convinced Aquaman to abdicate his throne and leave Poseidonis.
(Justice League of America I
#117) - Hawkman applied for readmission into the JlofA, and Aquaman and the
other Leaguers unanimously voted yes.
(Justice League of America I #121) - When the Leaguers on Rann were seemingly disintegrated by the robot Borg, Adam Strange traveled to the JlofA satellite to gather Aquaman and the rest of the League to avenge their comrades and deal with the mastermind behind the attacks, Kanjar Ro. Before the League could form a plan of action they were alerted to a freak electric storm in Long Island, and left their satellite to respond, witgh Adam staying behind because Earth’s surface was poisonous to him. The storm turned out to be a Cloud Creature, another revamped threat from Rann, and it defeated the League. Kanjar confronted Adam Strange and explained his schemes, but Adam responded by stealing the energi-rod he’d used to recreate the Rannian menaces and zeta-beamed back to Rann. Sardath used the brain waves on file from Kanjar Ro’s time as a prisoner on Rann to allow Adam control over the energi-rod. Adam correctly reasoned that Kanjar’s ego demanded that he destroy the entire JlofA in one fell swoop, so the seemingly murdered Leaguers must have been in captivity on Rann. In an ice cave he found the five black spheres that Kanjar had turned the League into, and undid the transformation with the energi-rod. He found an additional black sphere, and it turned out to be Alanna. She told Adam that Kanjar kept her alive as insurance to have leverage against Adam if his plan failed. The JlofA returned to Earth and defeated the Cloud Creature. Without his energi-rod Kanjar was easy pickings, and Black Canary knocked him out with a karate chop. The League went to Rann with Adam and attended his wedding to Alanna.
(Justice League of America I #125, 126) - Lugons of energy built up in the Dronndarians dimension and threatened to reach critical mass. To siphon off the energy three Dronndarians used their transmission facilities to send their minds to Earth. Their intellects inhabited statues of Julius Cesear, Benjamin Franklin and Napolean, and offered underworld figures a chance for a one-time use of unlimited power. Each time a criminal used the transmitted lugons of energy to murder a ruival or commit a crime, Dronndarr gained more time before exploding. The Dronndarrians approached Batman nemesis Two-Face, but his schizophrenic personality made him turn down the offer in hopes pof saving Earth. He alerted the Justice League of America, and they were initially skeptical, but the details of his story panned out, they allowed him to help them quell a riot at Oceanside Prison led by “Bull” Langdon and other criminals powered by the Dronndarians. Aquaman figured out that the lugon energy was short-circuited by water, and commanded whales to splash the criminals, ending the riot. They confronted the Dronndarrians, who fled from their animated statues and returned home. The Dronndarrians realized they had failed, even if the League hadn’t intervened they hadn’t siphoned off nearly enough energy to save their world. They went to the Anti-Matter Universe and contracted the Weaponers of Qward to save their world by destroying Earth with a massive burst of lugon energy. The Qwardians employed Two-Face, who’d decided to turn against the League, to attach Dronndarian power blast devices to each of the Leaguers, and tell them about their planned attacks on Bonn, Sydney and Toronto. The JlofA released more and more lugons of energy into Earth as they battled and overcame the Qwardians, but Atom realized the Qwardian scheme and Two-Face’s betrayal. He alerted his teammates and they allowed the Qwardians to beat them until the last of their lugon energy was siphoned back to Dronndar. GL used his power ring to observe the Dronndarians final fate, as their world exploded they evolved into beings of pure energy to survive.
(DC Comics Presents #5) - Poseidonis was hit with a seaquake, and when Aquaman investigated his sister city Tritonis he was attacked, because they blamed Poseidonis for the seaquake. Superman investigated as a favor to his old flame Lori Lemaris of Tritonis, and Aquaman said the Tritonians were being unreasonable and zealous. They both approached Tritonis to square the facts, but were attacked by the Tritonian guard. They willingly surrendered and found that the Tritonians had made Ocean Master king of their city in exchange for protection. Ocean Master banished them from his realm, but they snuck into his palace at nightfall, convinced that he was behind the conflict between the cities. They were proved correct when Ocean Master admitted to attacking the cities and revealed a giant jellyfish monster that fed off negative emotions and incited the Tritonians. Superman rendered it powerless by remaining calm, and Aquaman defeated Ocean Master, deposing him from his rule of Tritonis.
(Swamp Thing II #46) - Aquaman was among the number of heroes teleported to the Monitor’s satellite by Alexander Luthor, Jr., who explained his plan to make sure reality survived the Crisis.
(Adventures of Superman #442) - Superman contacted Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, Elongated Man and Captain Marvel after his powers were stolen by Psi-Phon and Dreadnaught, a pair of alien invaders. They stole the powers of Aquaman and the others, but the amount of energy it took overloaded them and they surrendered.
(Green Lantern III #25) - Aquaman and the Justice League were on hand to watch Hal Jordan and Guy Gardner battle to determine who'd become Earth's one Green Lantern. The League initially wanted to interfere, but the Green Lantern Corps held them back, saying the fight was necessary Corps business. Hal won, and the Justice League rejoiced.
(Green Lantern III #30) -Aquaman and the JLE moved their possessions into the JLE's new headquarters.
(Green Lantern III #63, 64) - As Aquaman and Dolphin prepared to find who sent Deadline after them Ganthet appeared to Aquaman and told him he was needed to fight Parallax. Ganthet, Aquaman, Flash III, Green Arrow, Hawkman and Martian Manhunter confronted Parallax as he was about to take away Green Lantern Kyle Rayner's power ring. Parallax defeated the heroes, but Kyle talked him down and convinced him to give up the power ring.
(Green Arrow III #16 (fb)) - Aquaman attended Oliver Queen's funeral.
(Aquaman V #17, 18) - Aquaman took Dolphin to the lost Atlantean city of Hy-Brasil to bring it back into the fold. He had an Atlantean ship download information about the Hunter / Gatherers that populated Hy-Brasil into Dolphin's brain. Tens of thousands of years ago they came to Earth and ran down the resources, creating an ice age, but thousands of years later they realized their mistake and reclaimed parts of Earth, interbreeding with various specious, with the Hy-Brasilians choosing rays. They encountered the king of Hy-Brasil, who refused to align himself with Aquaman, forcing a battle that Aquaman won. In accordance with Hy-Brasilian tradition the king committed suicide and the queen demanded that Aquaman become her new king and defend Hy-Brasil, or she would have her subjects rend him limb from limb. Dolphin suffered a mental attack and lashed out at the Hy-Brasilians, so the queen called for her execution, telling Aquaman that law and order was her jurisdiction. A high seer interrogated Dolphin, unleashing hidden programming by her creators that made her kill him. Aquaman blamed the Hy-Brasilians for unleashing her dark side, and challenged any one of them to combat, but they all backed down. After the Hy-Brasilians killed their queen, they told Aquaman he had their support when he needed them.
(Aquaman V #19, 20) - Aquaman and Dolphin went to a lost Atlantean city in the Himalayas, and Dolphin professed her love for Aquaman. The city had been taken over by Ocean master, who refused to negotiate, attacked the heroes and put them in a deathtrap. Garth came to their rescue, and Ocean Master's people physically attacked the heroes, and when Aquaman's mind opened up his memories of Orm as his half-brother returned to Ocean Master. Driven mad by the flood of memories and the relationship he had with Aquaman he exploded his mountain stronghold in an explosion of power.
(Aquaman V #21) - Tempest brought Aquaman and Dolphin to the lost Atlantean city of Thierna na Oge. Aquaman met their queen Nuala Silverarm, who already knew of the threat to Earth and pledged her support. Aquaman felt he'd met her and been in Thierna Na Oge before, and she told him his mystical nature allowed him to sense the echoes of timelines that no longer existed. A skull-shaped Hunter ship approached Na Oge, discharging soldiers that the heroes defeated. Aquaman concluded that the skirmish was merely meant to test their mettle.
(Aquaman V #22) - Aquaman, Dolphin and Garth went to the lost Atlantean city of Basilia, which was already under the control of the Hunters. Aquaman freed Spought, a Hunter that was on the side of Earth, and Atlan appeared to help him escape the Hunters. Aquaman hit his father, but they had to escape Basilia before they could work out their issues, and Atlan told him Tritonis was under attack by Kordax. Spought operated the cities controls, causing it to rise in the air, and turning it upside down to shake the Hunters free of it. As they flew away Aquaman and Atlan talked, and Atlan apologized for ruining Atlanna's life; he said he had many regrets over his centuries of life, but Aquaman was never one of those regrets.
(Aquaman V #23-25) - Aquaman and his allies traveled to Tritonis, where Kordax had possessed Atlanteans to slaughter most of the city. Kordax had Koryak under his control, and chose him as his champion to battle Garth, with the life of S'Ona, queen of Tritonis at stake. Garth prevailed, and Aquaman used his psionic abilities to free the Atlanteans from Kordax' control. Kordax told Aquaman to leave, and that a reckoning would come. Aquaman brought his allies together, including the guardian of Hy-Brasil, Nuada Silverarm, the Sea Devils, Power Girl, Tsunami and Deep Blue, so they could plan a defense against the Hunters. Aquaman established his role as leader, citing his past accomplishments and his connection with the creatures of the sea. The Hunters launched their attack against each city of Atlantis, and using a mystic portal constructed by Atlan, Aquaman projected his image and voice to each city and coordinated the defense. The Hunters were repelled, and Aquaman raised Poseidonis into the air, propelling it using the Annunake ship underneath the city. The Hunters had come to Washington, D.C. and asked for a meeting with Aquaman. They told Aquaman they only attacked because he would not listen to them, and promised a golden age of peace on Earth, but they needed his help. The Hunter’s former ally Tiamat and his pawn Kordax attacked Washington. Accord, leader of the Hunters, unlocked Aquaman's potential power, allowing him to mentally dominate Kordax. Fearing having someone to him what he'd done to so many others Kordax took his own life. Aquaman banished Tiamat from the Earth with help from Atlan. Accord admitted to Aquaman that the golden age would begin with a harrowing of humanity, and Aquaman broadcast his comments with Atlan's portal, ensuring that the Hunters offer would be refused. The Hunters left Earth, but promised to return when humanity destroyed itself.
(Final Night #3, 4, Aquaman V #26) - The Sun-Eater engulfed the sun, causing worldwide cooling. Aquaman dealt with the chaos caused by the oceans slowly freezing over as best he could. Aquaman, Dolphin and Koryak flew Poseidonis to save Porm and the other dolphins dying as the Earth's oceans froze. Aquaman confronted Ramona, the cybernetic entity that powered the Hunters ship and had been boosting his powers and mentally manipulating him. Ramona resented Aquaman rejecting her, so she dumped Aquaman and the others near the dolphins and flew off. Aquaman broke up the ice floes threatening the dolphins, but he found Porm slaughtered, and the Japanese word for vengeance written in her blood. he cradled the dolphin and swore revenge. Earth was saved when Parallax sacrificed his life to dispel the Sun-Eater and reignite the sun.
(Green Lantern III #81) - Coast City; Aquaman was among the heroes who attended a memorial service for Green Lantern Hal Jordan.
(Aquaman V #27) - Aquaman attended the dolphins' funeral service for Porm. Later Aquaman decreed that the Poseidonis raiders would rebuild Tritonis and then follow orders from King Iqula of Tritonis before they could return home. Koryak felt guilt for the state of Tritonis, and volunteered to stay behind and help rebuild alongside the other raiders. Aquaman and Dolphin followed the trail of Porm's killer to Japan and Raiden Industries. They were confronted by Demon Gate, the former Kimon Tanaka, whose brother had made him into a cyborg after the shark attack Aquaman made him suffer. After a battle Aquaman prevailed, but was detaioned by Japan's police force. The office of the Japanese Ministry refused to extradite Demon Gate to Atlantis, or prosecute him for his dolphin slaying. Aquaman forbid anyone from Japan from going over the oceans or seas, his territory, and gave them 24 hours to hand over Demon gate before Atlantis declared war on Japan.
(JLA #1-4) - Aquaman received a Justice League alarm and chose not to respond. When the Hyperclan set up as Watchtower that beamed worldwide mind-control rays in the Pacific, Aquaman investigated and met Wonder Woman. He told her he had no interest in being part of the JLA, and told her protecting the sea from the Hyperclan was his job, not hers. His argument was rendered moot when he and Wonder Woman were attacked and defeated by Fluxus and Tronix of the Hyperclan, who then took them to the Hyperclan hq of Z’Onn Z’Orr and imprisoned them in the Flower of Wrath. The JLA escaped and defeated the Hyperclan, but they learned that the Hyperclan were White Martians, and they had summoned an invasion force towards Earth. Superman sent out a worldwide broadcast, telling the people of Earth that the Martians were on their way, and that their one weakness was fire. The JLA rounded up the invasion force, which had already been humbled by Earth’s populace, and Martian Manhunter hypnotized them into taking human form and becoming peaceful members of society. Aquaman chose to remain with the JLA , and they constructed their own Watchtower on the moon.
(JLA: Tomorrow Woman #1) - Aquaman and the JLA had to deal with the Miracle Babies, ten million children under the influence of the Sole Jurisdiction empire, acting as their militia. Tomorrow Woman was capable of removing the hatred from their minds and making them normal children, but she could only act on a small scale. The JLA agreed to link minds with her, ending the rage of all the Miracle Babies on Earth once and for all.
(JLA #6, 7) - Aquaman and Wonder Woman defeated rampaging robots Animech and Mangatron in Tokyo when Martian Manhunter summoned theam, along with the rest of the JLA, after finding Zauriel, an angel that had fallen to Earth. Neron and the Demons Three were watching the JLA’s movements, and when Flash tried to teleport from the JLA Watchtower to Earth they froze him inside the teleporter. While Superman tried to help him the Demons pulled the moon out of orbit towards Earth. The rest of the JLA assisted Zauriel against Heaven’s bull-host, who were intent on wiping him out. Asmodel, the leader of the host, arrived on Earth. After a titanic battle Flash, who’d escaped the teleporter, used his speed vibrations that could move matter across spacetime to send Asmodel and the Host back to Heaven. The JLA met aboard the Watchtower to induct Green Arrow, but they were attacked, and knocked unconscious by the Key.
(JLA #8, 9) - Key hooked Aquaman and the JLAers up to a machine and injected them with a neural virus that made each member dream of a replica reality, in hopes that they’d help him find the keys to creation in their dreams. He knew the JLA always won, and he was counting on it. When they escaped the dreams he made for them they’d generate enough psycho-electric energy to open a gateway to negative space. He planned to step through and become one with the center of the universe. Aquaman dreamed of an America flooded coast to coast. He gathered supplies for refugees and fended off attacks from Manta Raiders. The JLA shook off their dreams and woke up, but before Key could enter negative space new JLA inductee Green Arrow knocked him cold with a boxing-glove arrow.
(Aztek: The Ultimate Man #10) - Amazo trapped the JLA in the Watchtower using an energy bubble created by his Green Lantern power. He told them he had business on Earth with his creator Ivo, and didn't want to be interrupted. GL Kyle refused to accept that Amazo's willpower was stronger than his ring, and hated that he was using power based on Hal's. Wonder Woman remembered Hal's power's weakness against yellow, and destroyed the sphere. The JLA traveled to Earth, where Aztek had kept Amazo away from Ivo. Aztek held his own against the villain, who surrendered with the arrival of the JLA. Aztek was inducted into the JLA as their newest member, having already won the good graces of GL, Batman, and Superman.
(JLA #10) - The JLA Revenge Squad, hard-light duplicates of the JLA, wrecked havoc in Star City. Aquaman and the JLA responded and drove them off, but the Revenge Squad was deactivated and sent back to the Injustice Gang hq. The Gang was merely taking the new JLA’s measure before confronting them. Aztek was in the JLA Monitor Womb when he detected a massive amount of energy heading toward Earth, and Martian Manhunter chose to investigate it. He was devastated by the Genesis Wave and realized it was headed toward Earth.
(Chase #2) - Peru; Aquaman and the JLA were informed that the Construct, operating out of an Incan temple, was plotting a takeover of Earth’s computer networks. They went to Peru, defeated the Construct and destroyed his temple.
(JLA #11-15) - The JLA tracked down the Injustice Gang, with Superman and Martian Manhunter traveling into space to find their satellite hq. The Gang them to a duplicate hq, and trapped them in a maze that was a manifestation of Joker’s mind. Metron approached Flash, Aquaman and Aztek, telling them Lex Luthor had the Philosopher’s Stone, and that Darkseid was after it. He altered the JLA teleporter with a Mother Box so they could make a transtemporal voyage to find the Stone, which existed in all times and places, before Darkseid. The heroes bounced through space and time, with Aquaman finding himself on a water-world where he tore an emerald from the head of an octopus god. The heroes learned that if the Gang defeated the JLA the Philosopher’s Stone would be destroyed and Darkseid would enslave Earth. They ended up on Wonderworld, home of the Theocracy, who used Glimmer’s hyperwheel to try and get them home. Unfortunately they ended up in a hypertimeline 15 years in the future where Darkseid already ruled Earth and ruined it. They occupied their own future bodies, and joined up with Earth’s last remaining heroes as a new JLA they broke into one of Darkseid’s warships and stole Metron’s Moebius Chair so they could return to the past. Metron was a pawn of Darkseid that sent the JLAers on their chase so Darkseid’s future would be assured. As Orion destroyed Darkseid’s world with the Genesis Box the JLAers returned to their own time. The JLA found the Gang’s satellite hq thanks to Arrow, who’d only pretended to betray the JLA, and Mirror Master, who was working for Batman, who’d paid him more than Lex. The JLA defeated the Gang and blew up their satellite. Joker was got ahold of the Philosopher’s Stone, and prepared to use it on the JLA, but Martian Manhunter temporarily turned him sane. Lex convinced Joker to use the Stone to undo the deaths the JLA Revenge Squad caused in Star City, ensuring that Lex couldn’t be charged with any crime. The JLA gave the Stone to the real Metron for safekeeping. Aztek and Green Arrow quit the JLA, and Batman decided to devote more time to Gotham City. In the end the JLA decided to disband.
(Spectre III #62) - Corrigan decided to give up the mantle of the Spectre, at last seeking peace in death. Craemer arranged for his bones to be buried in a small grave, and performed a funeral service, with all of the friends Corrigan met as the Spectre attending, including Aquaman. The Spectre-Force vanished and Jim ascended to Heaven.
(JLA #16, 17) - Three months after the JLA disbanded the team was reorganized with a new lineup. They invited the press to the Watchtower to introduce the new team to the public, and had a “join the JLA for a day” contest that a man named Retro won. Retro was killed on his way to the Watchtower and replaced by Prometheus. Prometheus set fire to the hydroponic systems that provided the Watchtower with air, and defeated Martian Manhunter, Steel, Huntress and Batman as Hippolyta tried to evacuate the press. Prometheus threatened to kill the press unless Superman committed suicide, but Catwoman, who’d been disguised as reporter Cat Grant, defeated him and he was forced to flee. Prometheus had methods of defeating every hero on Earth, but didn’t keep files on villains, so the newly reformed Catwoman was capable of besting him.
(JLA #18, 19) - Julian September unhinged the universe’s laws of probability with his engine of chance, briefly warping history so that Aquaman and several other JLA members blinked out of existence. Atom met with the JLA, and Oracle unlocked September’s research notes. He split seven photons to create the Engine of Chance, so Atom shrunk the team to subatomic height and repaired the photons, undoing all the Engine’s effects.
(Flash II #140) - Aquaman and the JLA attended Linda Park's funeral. Jesse Quick filled in for Flash on the JLA while the hero was in mourning. A Manhunter sleeper agent attacked the JLA Watchtower, but was defeated when Jesse Quick reprogrammed him.
(Green Lantern III #103) - Aquaman and the JLA were introduced to time-traveling Green Lantern Hal Jordan by Green Lantern Kyle Rayner. Hal was welcomed as a new inductee into the JLA.
(JLA #22, 23) - The Star Conqueror put most of the world to sleep, dreaming of a world in which its rule was absolute. Aquaman was in Nova Scotia when the gigantic Conqueror emerged from the ocean. The Conqueror was repulsed after members of the JLA entered the Dreaming and defeated the Conqueror’s spores.
(Aquaman Secret Files #1) - Aquaman talked to a fish that had heard legends about him from all matter of aquatic life. He'd reached mythic proportions, but most sea creatures had conflicting accounts of his appearance and actions.
(JLA #24-26) - An old JLA emergency signal went off, signifying that someone was trying to steal the Shaggy Man, who was imprisoned in a capsule deep in the sea. Aquaman and Green Lantern IV went undersea to scope out the situation, and discovered Warmaker One of the Ultramarine Corps making off with the Shaggy Man. Warmaker attacked Green Lantern with microwave bursts, making him lose his concentration, and causing his power ring submarine to dissipate. Aquaman was forced to grab Lantern and flee to prevent Lantern from being crushed by deep-sea pressure. Aquaman returned to the JLA Watchtower, and the team got a report of a alien invasion in Phoenix Arizona. The JLA showed up in Arizona, but the invasion was a ruse. They were confronted by the Ultramarine Corps, who were under orders from General Wade Eiling to execute the JLA. The fight went badly for the JLA until they convinced the Ultramaries that Eiling had gone insane , and his orders no longer carried presidential approval. The JLA and Ultramarines fought Eiling, who had transferred his consciousness into the indestructible body of the Shaggy Man. Although they couldn't defeat him, they transported the General millions of miles into uninhabited deep space.
(DC One Million #1) - Justice Legion A invited Aquaman and the JLA to travel with them to the year 85,271 to compete in Olympic-style games and celebrate the return of Superman Prime to Earth. Hourman sent the JLA to their time, but he was unable to retrieve them, because he’d been implanted with a virus by Vandal Savage and Solaris.
(DC One Million #4) - Solaris was on a rampage decimating planets, and the JLA stopped him by having Green Lantern cause him to go super-nova. The JLA witnessed the return of Superman Prime before returning to their own time.
(JLA #27) - Professor Ivo placed an upgraded Amazo in the Florida Everglades to free him from Belle Reve prison. Amazo instantly duplicated the powers of any active JLA member and defeated Aquaman and the JLA, and when they called in the reserves, his power only increased as he duplicated the abilities of the reserves. Superman temporarily disbanded the JLA, causing Amazo to lose his powers and shut down.
(Martian Manhunter II #6-9) - Aquaman and the JLA got a distress signal from Martian Manhunter’s hq Z’Onn Z’Orr and found the half-dead Jemm there. Jemm projected his thoughts, and he believed his attacker to be the Manhunter. The JLA found Martian tech in a desert terraforming it to resemble Mars, and a lab filled with gruesome genetic experiments. They also found Malefic, who was disguised as Martian Manhunter, and who was responsible for the abominations they’d seen. He fought the JLA and in the course of the battle Malefic’s Martian tech exploded. He’d succeeded in making the JLA think that Manhunter’d gone rogue. The JLA later found Manhunter and asked him to surrender to them. The JLA questioned Manhunter at the JLA Watchtower, and Malefic turned himself invisible and attacked the JLA. They assumed Manhunter was responsible, leading to a huge fight. Manhunter tried to extricate himself by flying off in a JLA shuttle, but Malefic had anticipated this, and rigged it to go up in flames. Malefic then started hunting down the individual members of the JLA. Manhunter revealed that he’d survived and challenged his brother to a one-on-one confrontation on Z’Onn Z’Orr. Manhunter piloted Z’Orr into the sun and left Malefic behind to burn alive. The JLA apologized to Manhunter for ever having doubted him.
(JLA #30, 31) - When the 5th Dimensional genie Lkz invaded Earth Oracle put Batman in contact with Aquaman, who had previous contact with Qwsp, the 5-D entity that intiigated a fight between Lkz and Thunderbolt that threatened to destroy Earth. Batman and Aquaman boarded the JLA Watchtower and confronted Triumph, who was using the 5-D war as an opportunity to usurp the JLA. They defeated Triumph, and 5-D authorities apprehended Qwsp.
(JLA #32) - Aquaman and the JLA discovered that Locus was conducting disturbing genetic experiments in No Man's Land Gotham City. The JLA waged war against Locus to force them out of Gotham.
(JLA #34) - Mageddon approached Earth, and sent a remote sender to Belle Reve prison, driving the prisoners berserk with rage. Most of the JLA was occupiued, but Zauriel, Plas, Green Lantern and Aquaman quelled the riot while Orion dispatched the remote sender.
(JLA #36, 38,41) - Mr. Miracle called an emergency meeting of Aquaman and the JLA and informed them of Mageddon’s arrival and explained its origins. It was a doomsday weapon of the Old Gods, and it would cause a massive outbreak of wars on Earth, the hatred it spread would keep going until everyone on the planet was dead. Aquaman had to go to Atlantis to put down a civil war incited by Mageddon’s presence. The unified Atlantis was able to halt many of the wars spreading across Earth.The JLA built an anti-war ray, a device that gave all of humanity the ability to resist Mageddon’s urgings for them to destroy each other, as well as temporary superpowers so that they could all help fight Mageddon, and the final blow was delivered when Superman absorbed the anti-sun that powered Mageddon.
(Young Justice: Sins of Youth #1) - Aquaman met with Neptune Perkins to let him know he didn’t take kindly to the government’s harassment of Young Justice, even though the JLA didn’t always see eye-to-eye with Young Justice Aquama stil saw them as the JLA’s legacy. Aquaman and the JLA were among the superheroes that attended Young Justice’s Justice for All rally in Washington. It was interrupted by Klarion, who magically de-aged Aquaman and most of the heroes into children. Doiby Dickles pulled out an extraterrestrial aging gun to return the heroes to their proper age, but another of Klarion’s spells intercepted his shot. The result was that the younger heroes present were aged to adulthood, but the other heroes remained children.
(Sins of Youth: JLA, Jr. #1, Sins of Youth Secret Files #1) - The de-aged Aquaboy and JLA fended off an attack by the Point Men, and returned to the Watchtower with Anarky's help. At Captain Marvel's suggestion they visited the wizard Shazam, but he couldn't undo Klarion's spell. They traveled to Young Justice's Justice Cave, where the JLA and JSA's childish tempers erupted in a battle that lasted hours. After everyone was too tired to fight, the heroes made up and decided to split up to find a way to reverse Klarion's magic, so Aquaboy teamed up with Lagoon Man to find any Atlantean tech or magic that would do the trick.
(Sins of Youth: Aquaboy / Lagoon Man) - The de-aged “Aquaboy” and the mystically aged “Lagoon Man” spent quality time lounging on the beach and hitting on women. Aquaboy felt relieved he could take a break from the pressures of being king of Atlantis. His fun didn’t last long as he was informed by Letifos that the newly rebuilt Thiera na Oge was under siege by Black Manta, who was in possession of Ronal’s Staff, a mystic item that granted wises but corrupted its’ user irrevocably after the first use. Aquaboy ad Lagoon Man defeated Manta and took away the Staff, and although Aquaboy was tempted to use it to restore himself to his adult form, he instead used it to repair the damage Manta did to na Oge, and then he destroyed the Staff.
(Young Justice: Sins of Youth #2) - Doiby tried using his new raygun on Aquaman and the other heroes affected by Klarion’s spell but it had no effect. Since the heroes’ ages were skewed by a combination of magic and science, they would need Klarion’s cooperation to undo the transformation. The heroes attacked Agenda’s headquarters in Alaska, where Superboy, Superman, Wonder Girl and Wonder Woman were being held hostage. The hq was defended by the Junior Injustice Society, but the heroes prevailed, forced the Agenda to flee, and freed the prisoners. They then forced Klarion to team with Doiby and return everyone to their proper age.
(JLA: A League of One) - Wonder Woman learned from the Delphic Oracle that the dragon Drakul Karfang in Switzerland that was destined to fall before the JLA, but kill them before dying. Wonder Woman was determined to cheat fate by taking the JLA out of action, so she knocked out her teammates with cheap shots while they were on missions. Aquaman contained a tanker spill when Wonder Woman confronted him and took him out of action. She placed them in lifeboats and sent them into orbit. Wonder Woman told Superman the JLA had a limited oxygen supply, and he flew into space to rescue them. Aquaman and the other JLAers met Wonder Woman after she destroyed Drakul, and they accepted that Wonder Woman had no choice but to do as she did to save the JLA from destruction.
(JLA #43-45) - Ra’s al Ghul stole Batman’s secret files, files he had hidden from even his own JLA teammates, which detailed ways to neutralize every member of the JLA if they ever went rogue, and began using those plans against the team. While Aquaman and a group of Atlanteans attempted to make peace between Turks and Rhapastians at U.N. negotiation Ra’s agents exposed him to fear gas that made Aquaman deathly afraid of water. After more attacks by Ra’s servants The JLA regrouped at the Watchtower, and Aquaman’s body began to succumb to lack of water, so Martian Manhunter put him in a trance, and then placed his body in a water tank. The JLA had to return to Earth, sans Aquaman and Manhunter, because Ra’s had activated the Tower of Babel, a device that scrambled the language center of every human mind on the planet, and the result was worldwide chaos.
(JLA #46) - Manhunter healed Aquaman’s mind, and together they traveled to Ra’s arctic stronghold, where they helped Batman and Superman capture Dr. Kant, the man who had invented the Tower of Babel. Ra’s was defeated, but fled before he could be caught by the JLA. Back at the Watchtower Superman called a meeting to decide if the JLA should expel Batman for keeping secrets and making plans that Ra’s was able to exploit to nearly destroy the JLA. Aquaman voted for expulsion, feeling that members of the JLA needed to trust each other implicitly, and that Batman had violated that trust. After the votes were tallied Batman was expelled.
(Flash II #163) - The Turtle sent a nuclear warhead toward Atlantis, and Aquaman was determined to stop it even if it meant sacrificing his life. Flash was on to Turtle's schemes, and dismantled the bomb at superspeed.
(Green Lantern: Circle of Fire #1, Green Lantern / Power Girl #1, Green Lantern: Circle of Fire #2) - Adam Strange informed Aquaman and the JLA that a villain named Oblivion had devastated Rann and was headed towards to Earth. The JLA went to intercept Oblivion before he reached their planet, but they were defeated and put in suspended animation inside a giant yellow crystal. Green Lantern defeated Oblivion, and as a result the JLA were freed from the crystal. Green Lantern admitted to the JLA that he had accidentally unleashed Oblivion; the villain was actually an aspect of his subconscious, and resigned from the League. The JLA refused his resignation, telling him they were proud he confronted his inner demon and triumphed.
(JLA #47-49) - The Queen of Fables transformed Manhattan into a medieval forest and kidnapped Wonder Woman, so Aquaman and the JLA entered the forest to rescue their teammate. When they found her Wonder Woman had been put into a state of deep sleep, the Queen’s reenactment of the Sleeping Beauty fable. Aquaman reasoned that as a former prince he could wake her with a kiss, and his kiss did indeed break the Queen’s magic. Batman arrived in the forest and gave the JLA the enchanted tome from which the Queen escaped, and which could trap her once again. The JLA didn't want to subject the other citizens of the enchanted book to the Queen, so they made her realize that outside of her enchanted world she would age and die, then when she tried to renter the enchanted book Flash III switched it at superspeed, leaving her trapped in United States Tax Code Manuel. With the Queen trapped Manhattan returned to normal.
(JLA #50) - While battling Dr. Destiny’s dream-self, Aquaman and other members of the JLA who voted Batman off the team argued with their teammates who voted for Batman to stay. The JLA defeated Destiny, but Superman realized that the team was in discord ever since Batman left; they no longer trusted each other. To solve this Batman was readmitted, but only after sharing his secret identity with the rest of the team. As another show of faith the other JLAers with secret identities shared them with the team.
(JLA #51-54) - The Cathexis unleashed the sentient energy Id on Earth, which transformed wishes into reality, causing havoc all over Earth. The Id split Aquaman’s JLA teammates in two because Superman accidentally wished he could separate his civilian and superhero lives. Aquaman had no civilian identity, so he was unaffected by the Id, but his teammates found their new situation disastrous, and sought a way to reunite their civilian and superhero selves. Aquaman and the JLA captured the Id, recombined the separated JLAers identities and sent the Cathexis packing back to the sixth dimension.
(Justice Leagues: JL? #1, Justice Leagues: Justice League of Amazons #1, Justice Leagues: Justice League of Atlantis #1) - When the Advance Man made the world forgot that the JLA ever existed the individual members still had a vague memory of the team and formed their own Justice Leagues. Aquaman formed the Justice League of Atlantis, and they destroyed a techno-organic island built by Advance Man that was draining away the sea’s natural resources.
(Justice Leagues: JLA #1) - With the help of Hector Hammond, Batman made the world remember the Justice League of America. Aquaman joined the reformed JLA, and together they forced Advance Man and his client Plura away from Earth.
(Green Lantern III #134-136) - Green Lantern Kyle Rayner assembled Aquaman and the JLA to confront Nero. He warned them that it might be impossible to stop someone as powerful and insane as Nero without killing him. Nero unleashed a demonic army across NYC, and the JLA dealt with them all. Nero then attacked Times Square, but was defeated by Kyle Rayner.
(Green Arrow III #3, 4) - Aquaman broke up a drug buy in Star City involving Black Manta, and was shocked to be joined by Green Arrow, whom Aquaman thought dead. He brought Arrow to the JLA Watchtower, and Arrow was taken back by changes in the JLA because he didn't remember any of the last ten years of his career before his death. He turned against his teammates, and Batman knocked him out and promised to find out how Arrow came back from the dead and why he was suffering from amnesia.
(Action Comics #780) - Aquaman and the JLA went to Metropolis when Darkseid and his forces gathered in Apokolips. President Luthor assured them Darkseid was an ally in the coming war against Imperiex, and told the JLA they'd have their part to play in the war.
(JLA: Our Worlds at War #1, JLA #72 (fb)) - The JLA fought a group of Imperiex Probes in space, and although victorious the explosions caused by the defeated Probes severely injured the team. While they were recovering in the Alien Alliance's space ark Aquaman learned that an Imperiex Probe was attacking Atlantis and rushed to the rescue. He said goodbye to Mera and Tempest and armed himself with Neptune's trident. He defeated the Probe, but the resulting explosion seemingly vaporized him and Atlantis. Tempest cast a secret spell taught to him by Aquaman in use of emergencies. As Imperiex exploded, Atlantis vanished to the year 1,000 B.C., leaving a deep gash in the ocean called the Atlantic Trench.
(JLA #72 (fb), 70, 72, 74, 75) - In the past the Atlanteans were enslaved by the sorceress Gamemnae, who turned Aquaman to water and kept him captive in a mystic pool. Gamemnae branded the Atlanteans as traitors and forced them to slave to support the Atlantis of 1,000 B.C, which she’d raised to the surface. After 15 years the JLA came to the past in search of Aquaman, and discovered his condition and promised to free the Atlanteans. The JLA fell in battle with Gamemnae’s Ancients, but Manitou Raven realized that Gamemnae was evil, not the JLA, and cast a spell to preserve them. Another JLA roster sent themselves back into the past and freed Aquaman from the enchanted pool. He ended Gamemnae’s reign by merging his body with the ocean and sinking Atlantis once again. Aquaman and the JLA helped his Atlanteans returnto the present day through a portal created by Zatanna. In the present Aquaman’s body was restored to flesh and blood. In Atlantis Mera blamed him for her and her countrymen’s years of slavery and told him there’d be a reckoning.
(JLA #76) - While on trial Aquaman was allowed to teleport to the JLA Watchtower to thank them for saving Atlantis. They offered to free him from his guards, but Aquaman told them it was his responsibility to face the accusations of his subjects, and that despite his best intentions he did allow his people to suffer a decade of slavery.
(Aquaman IV #13) - Aquaman came to the aid of the Malone family, whose boat was caught in the midst of a “perfect storm.” Aquaman was able to swim the Malone’s daughter Jennifer to safety, but by the time he came back to rescue her parents they were dead. Aquaman buried their ashes at sea at Jennifer’s request.
(Flash II #208, 209) - Aquaman and the JLA summoned Flash to the JLA Watchtower, demanding to know why they no longer remembered his secret identity. He initially refused to talk to team, and ran away, but after Superman talked to him he returned. He revealed that the Spectre erased the world’s knowledge of his secret identity to protect his family, but he was ready to reveal himself as Wally West to his friends.
(Identity Crisis #1) - Aquaman was among the number of heroes who attended Sue Dibny’s funeral. Afterwards heroes broke into teams to look for suspects in Sue’s murder, and Aquaman and Martian Manhunter went looking for Mirror Master.
(Identity Crisis #6) - Aquaman learned of the death of Jack Drake, Robin’s father, which re-opened wounds of his son’s death.
(Identity Crisis #7) - Aquaman and the JLA had a meeting in the wake of learning that Jean Loring had killed Sue Dibny.
(Blood of the Demon #3) - Zatanna sent a distress call to Aquaman and other members of the JLA when Batman confronted the Demon, but they were all occupied.
(Superman / Batman #13) - Aquaman and the JLA were among the heroes invited to Paradise Island to welcome Superman's cousin Supergirl into the superhero community.
(JLA #107) - On maintenance day Aquaman and the JLA monitored Krona’s cosmic egg and learned that a new universe was forming inside it. They agreed to not act, but just observe.
(Green Lantern: Rebirth #1-6) - Aquaman and Flash investigated Coast City, where the haven commune had disappeared and Hal Jordan’s old apartment had been reconstructed, leading the heroes to worry that Hal Jordan was involved and had returned to the dark side. Aquaman and the JLA confronted Hal, but he promised he wasn’t responsible for what they’d seen. Green Lantern John Stewart went berserk, having been possessed by Parallax. Aquaman and a number of other heroes to battle Parallax, who’d completely taken over Hal Jordan. They weakened him enough for the Spectre to separate Hal from Parallax, allowing Hal’s soul to return to his body, resurrecting him. Parallax possessed Ganthet, and Hal was ready to stop him, but Aquaman and the JLA stood in his way because they didn’t trust him using his power. Hal told them there was no time to argue and teamed with the other Green Lanterns to banish Parallax to the Central Power Battery, roving he was still a hero.
(JLA #109) - Aquaman and the JLA fought a water creature in Madagascar, a seismic creature in the Arctic and an energy creature in Illinois, all manifestations of the aftershocks caused by the cosmic shift Krona was responsible for.
(JLA #111-113) - The Crime Syndicate of Amerika, who’d been posing as the JLA, revealed themselves and attacked the heroes. Aquaman and the JLA were battered and forced to retreat. The essential differences between the anti and positive-matter universes that prevented the Crime Syndicate from ever being victorious on the JLA’s Earth no longer applied after Krona tampered with the universe, meaning Earth was theirs for the taking. The JLA knew there only advantage was that the Syndicate was small because they had a tendency for in-fighting and back-stabbing, so the JLA would raise all their reserve members. Qwardians traveled to the positive-matter universe and blamed Earth for the reality altering wave Krona unleashed. They prepared to attack Earth with the doomsday weapon Erdammeru. The JLA and their reserves split into three teams, one to fight the Qwardians, one to battle the Syndicate, and one to travel to the anti-matter universe to shake up the Syndicate’s Earth. Aquaman was on the team that fought the Syndicate on Earth, and drove them away from their invasion of Hong Kong, afterward tending to the wounded.
(JLA #118, 119) - Aquaman responded to a distress signal from Martian Manhunter, who was being attacked by Despero. After a fierce battle Despero subjugated the minds of Aquaman and Manhunter and had them burst into the Batcave, where Despero took over Batman’s mind. The JLA tracked Despero to the Batcave, but the villain picked the JLA off one by one, and had them fight each other. Zatanna arrived, freed the JLA’s minds and put Despero in suspended animation. The JLA agreed that they were a shadow of their former greatness and disbanded.
(JLA #120) - Aquaman invited the JLA to Happy Harbor, where the League began, to finalize the team's dissolution. Aquaman hoped that the disagreements and lack of trust that led to the dissolution wouldn't last forever, and reminded them what the JLA once stood for. Aquaman had everyone tossed dust into the wind as an act of cleansing and left.
(JLA #121-123) - Aquaman proposed forming a covert League with Green Arrow, Black Canary, Manitou Dawn and John Stewart. He worried about Batman splitting from the JLA, and his comments that the concentration of power in the League was too dangerous to exist. After the creation of Brother Eye, Aquaman also feared Batman as a foe, and his team tried to recruit Nightwing to have a hold over Batman, but the bid failed. The temporary JLA investigated a rampage killing in Metropolis perpetrated by the Key, and they tried to coerce Supergirl and Red Tornado into joining up with them. They were interrupted by an attack by O.M.A.C. units, bent on destroying all superhumans. When the O.M.A.C.s were overwhelmed Brother Eye sent them a command to destroy themselves. Aquaman had to leave his companions to return to Atlantis and care for his sick Mera.
(52 / WWIII Part One: A Call to Arms #1) - <Week 50, Day 1> The Geiss serum wore off, turning the residents of Sub Diego into air-breathers. Aquaman watched his subjects die around him, but didn't know what to do.
(52 / WWIII Part Two: The Valiant #1) - <Week 50, Day 4> Aquaman summoned Neptune and Poseidon, and told them if they had anything to do with the death of Sub Diego they'd answer to his superhero allies. They laughed at him, but acknowledged that they could raise Sub Diego to the surface. Aquaman offered the cursed bones of his severed hands, and they transformed him into the Dweller in the Depths, a magical being that was a chimera of various sea animals. He possessed arcane magic, but it was too strange and powerful for him to utilize.
Comments: Created by Mort Weisinger & Paul Norris.
In pre-Crisis DC continuity Aquaman was the son of Atlanna and
Tom Curry.
Aquaman received profiles in Aquaman Secret Files #1, Aquaman Secret Files 2003, Who's Who: The Definitive
Directory of the DC Universe #1 and Who's Who in the DC Universe #12. Aquaman received a profile in Silver Age Secret Files #1
under the Justice League of America entry. Aquaman
received profiles in JLA-Z #2 under the JLA (Year One), JLA (“The Satellite”
Era), JLA (Detroit) and JLA (“The Magnificent 7” Era) entries. Aquaboy received
a profile in Sins of Youth Secret Files #1 under the JLA, Jr. entry. Aquaman
was featured in the Crisis on Parallel Earths, Crisis on Infinite Earths,
Armageddon 2001, Eclipso: The Darkness Within, Zero Hour, Genesis and DC One
Million entries in JLA in Crisis Secret Files #1.
There were pin-ups of Aquaman in DCU Holiday Bash #3 and Legends of the DC Universe 3-D Gallery #1.
Aquaman Secret Files #1 recounted Aquaman's history from the Atlantis Chronicles.
Aquaman had cameos in Aztek: The Ultimate Man #8, Faces of Evil: Prometheus #1, Green Arrow III #8, 11, Green Lantern IV #7, JLA #5, 68, 117, Justice League of America II #0, 1, 5, 7 and R.E.B.E.L.S. Annual #1.
Flash II #219 had a flashback of the Aquaman’s appearance in Justice League of America I #2.
Green Arrow III #19 showed a cover of Newstime featuring Aquaman and the Justice League of America and covering the story of Green Arrow joining them.
Aquaman had a flashback cameo in Action Comics #650. Green Lantern III #101 had a flashback of Aquaman's appearance in Green Lantern III #81.
A poster of Aquaman and the JLA was shown in Green Lantern's (Kyle Rayner) apartment in Green Lantern III #146.
In JLA #60 Plastic Man told his friend Woozy Wink’s nephew Wheezy a Christmas story in which Aquaman and the JLA saved Santa Claus from Neron, who wanted to replace Santa, giving out presents in exchange for boys and girls being naughty.
JLA #66 and #67 showed the Atlantic Trench memorial of Aquaman.
Aquaman had a cameo in Martian Manhunter II #0, 12 and Titans II #15.
Secret Origins of Super-Villains 80-Page Giant #1 had a flashback of Aquaman and the JLA’s battle against Professor Ivo and Amazo in Brave and the Bold I #30.
There was a flashback cameo of his involvement in the Crisis in Teen Titans III #32.
Bizarro-Superman wrote and illustrated comic books titled “Captain Marvel and the Sham Shazam,” “Silence of the Fishes,” “Porcine Panic!,” “The Man Who Cried Fish” and “J’onn J’onzz Celebrity Roast,” all featuring Aquaman, in Bizarro Comics #1.
Aquaman's appearance in Adventure Comics I #251 was reprinted in Super DC Giant #S-26.
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