All in preparation of his first solo title, Aquaman vol. In 1961, Aquaman's strip got transferred to Detective Comics, he starred in a few Showcase issues, and he got several crossovers with Superman. He became one of the founding members of the Justice League of America in 1960 and was a regular there. He continued appearing in Adventure Comics until issue #284 (April, 1961). This version of Aquaman turned out to be more popular than the original. (This idea of the son of a light-house keeper and a merwoman may be inspired by the old song "My Father Was the Keeper of the Eddystone Light". Aquaman's career was, like Superman's, also retroactively extended back into his childhood as "Aquaboy," Superboy's sole contemporary hero. However, he was also given a Kryptonite Factor of sorts he could only spend one hour out of the water before succumbing to potentially fatal weakness. He was super-strong and tough because his body was "adapted to the sea's depths", and he could telepathically control anything that lived on or near the sea. In the Silver Age, Aquaman's origins were revamped now, he was a Half-Human Hybrid of Atlantean and surface human, raised by his father, a lighthouse-keeper, and unaware of his royal heritage until recently. During The Interregnum, Aquaman was one of the few Super Heroes who remained in publication, largely due to his status as the backup feature in Superboy's title.
He was then transferred to Adventure Comics, starting with its 103rd issue (April, 1946). He wasn't the first aquatic superhero (Namor the Sub-Mariner first appeared 2 years earlier), but he eventually came to be the most well-known.Īquaman continued in More Fun Comics until issue #107 (January, 1946).
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