Arthur Curry (Earth-Two)

The story must start with my father, a famous undersea explorer — if I spoke his name, you would recognize it. My mother died when I was a baby, and he turned to his work of solving the ocean's secrets. His greatest discovery was an ancient city, in the depths where no other diver had ever penetrated. My father believed it was the lost kingdom of Atlantis. He made himself a water-tight home in one of the palaces and lived there, studying the records and devices of the race's marvelous wisdom. From the books and records, he learned ways of teaching me to live under the ocean, drawing oxygen from the water and using all the power of the sea to make me wonderfully strong and swift. By training and a hundred scientific secrets, I became what you see — a human being who lives and thrives under the water.

-- Aquaman ^{[[ |[src]]]}

History

History of character is unknown.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Breathes underwater
Has enhanced strength and speed
Can speak with marine life
Strength level

Aquaman's strength level was several times that of a normal human.

Notes

Aquaman was only briefly associated with the All-Star Squadron, appearing in issues #59 and #60 just before Mekanique allowed the sweeping changes caused by the Crisis On Infinite Earths to take effect in 1942.

Aquaman was presented as the son of a human scientist who gave him the ability to survive and breathe underwater, and super strength, but had no other powers whatsoever. ^[1] In fact Aquaman is KO'd by a having a sandbag dropped on his head in that 1st ish!

This version of Aquaman was, in later years (after the establishment of DC Comics' Multiverse) described as being the Aquaman of Earth-Two, an alternate Earth. The only appearances of the Golden Age/Earth-Two version of Aquaman after the Golden Age were in All-Star Squadron #59 and #60, just before he was retroactively eliminated from existence due to the changes wrought to DC's history by 1985's Crisis on Infinite Earths.

In 1946, Aquaman's adventures moved from More Fun Comics to Adventure Comics, where he remained through the rest of the 1940s, the 1950s and early 1960s as a backup feature to the book's star, Superboy.

Most of Aquaman's adventures in the 1940s and 1950s consisted of Aquaman dealing with various criminals, pirates, and so forth, as well as threats to aquatic life and sailors. The first recurring supporting character Aquaman gained was Topo, his pet octopus, in Adventure Comics #229 in October 1956.

In 1959 Aquaman saw his first major revisions to his mythos since his introduction in the Golden Age, effectively marking the debut of the Earth-One Atlantean/human hybrid named Arthur Curry.

Trivia

Unlike his Earth-One/New Earth counterpart, Aquaman was not a true denizen of Atlantis.

Links and References

Footnotes

↑ More Fun Comics #73 (November 1941)

"You get right back here and finish this article, young man!"

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[0] More Fun Comics #73 (November 1941)

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