Black Manta! (as seen in Aquaman)

PERSONAL DATA
Alter Ego: Unknown
Occupation: Professional Criminal
Marital Status: Single [At least, there's no Mrs. Black Manta. But since his identity is unknown, who knows?]
Known Relatives: None
Group Affiliation: None
Base of Operations: Mobile [Via waterways, most likely.] First Appearance: AQUAMAN #35
Height:6'1" Weight:187 lbs.
Eyes: Brown Hair: Black

HISTORY
A professional criminal all his adult life, Black Manta has spent years plundering the ocean floor of its valuable contents [Like sea cucmbers and sea urchins.]. In this time, he has assembled a considerable number of henchmen, as well as bioengineering mutants he call his Manta-Men [This took a turn for the strange rather quickly! I thought he was just going to be this guy in a submarine, you know? Bioengineered Manta-Men?! How did he manage that? Comic books back in the day were much better when people weren't demanding believability and reality. I think my commentary blogs do a disservice by pointing out illogical shit!].

Little is known of the man beneath the Manta costume, save that, like most of his henchmen, he is black [Apparently that's why Aquaman keeps trying to bust his ass when he and his Manta-men are just searching for lost treasure and not bothering anybody.]. "Not that racism is my motive," Says Manta, "but since blacks have been suppressed for so long on the surface, they fight well for a chance to be masters below." [Dialogue obviously written by some white guy. Why the fuck does Black Manta have to explain himself? I don't see Batman, lounging in the watchtower smoking a cigar, saying, "I know the Justice League is composed of all white members but it's not a racism thing. But since whites have been in power for so long, they fight well for a chance to control space too!"]

Black Manta has attempted several times to create his own undersea kingdom, but each attempt has been thwarted by the King of the Seven Seas, Aquaman (see Aquaman) ["Hey buddy! If you haven't already noticed, the white man owns the under-ocean. Get the fuck out!" Seriously, Aquaman can't allow somebody else setting up a community underwater? What a dick.]. In the course of one of these conflicts, Black Manta was directly responsible for the death of Aquaman's son, Arthur Curry Jr., thus becoming one of the Sea King's greatest foes [Well why was Aquaman bringing his baby along on his raids to drive Black Manta out of the ocean?].

POWERS & WEAPONS
Black Manta wears a costume that provides him with unlimited air and communications capacity and protects him from the extraordinary pressures of the deep. The lenses in his helmet are also equipped with sophisticated laser beams, capable of piercing carbon steel. Over the years, he has used various undersea craft, probably of his own design. He has also designed and had performed upon many of his henchmen an intricate series of gill implantations, enabling them to survive indefinitely beneath the sea [Inside the Atlantean prison cells which Aquaman would immediately throw them in.], though Black Manta himself has not yet undergone this still-experimental process.

Having spent so many years beneath the waves, Black Manta has become proficient in all forms of undersea combat and is a skilled hand-to-hand fighter [What exactly are the forms of undersea combat? Swim-boxing? Fish-wrestling? Tae Kwon Don't Drown?].