Alter Ego: Arthur Curry
Occupation: Ex-King of Atlantis, now Professional Crimefighter [Professional? Does Aquaman have a degree in Crimefighting? Who's paying him to fight crime? Come to think of it, who answers the question "What's your occupation?" with "Ex-King!"?]
Marital Status: Married
Known Relatives: Mera (wife), Orm (half-brother), Arthur Jr. (son, deceased), Tom and Atlanna Curry (parents, deceased)
Group Affiliation: Justice League of America
Base of Operations: City of New Venice
First Appearance: MORE FUN COMICS #73
Height: 6'1" Weight: 325 lbs.
Eyes: Blue Hair: Blond
HISTORY
Tom Curry, a lonely lighthouse keeper, rescued a woman from a hurricane. While nursing her back to health, Curry fell in love with the woman, whose name was Atlanna [Notice there's no mention of Atlanna's feelings. Was she in love? Was she in shock? Was she delirious and drugged? This all sounds mighty suspicious to me. Why is a lighthouse keeper tending to a nearly drowned woman? I suppose the "lonely" part of the description explains that.]. The two married and had a son, whom they named Arthur.
As a child, Arthur discovered he had the ability to breathe underwater [How do you discover that power? I bet he also discovered, a bit later, how to get shit stains out of his swimming trunks.] and the telepathic power to command all creatures of the sea [Notice the word usage: command. Not ask politely. Not inquire as to the availability to possibly help out a friend. Nope. "Command." What a dick.]. When Arthur was six, his mother revealed on her deathbed that she was an outcast from the then-hidden sunken city of Atlantis [What was she dying of? Did they go on a family vacation to see the Grand Canyon and Atlanna was dead one our into the trip?]. With his father's help, young Arthur began training to use his unique abilities ["Unique abilities" is a kind way to describe forcing others to do things they don't want to do. But then what should I expect from a lonely lighthouse keeper who holds women hostage until Stockholm Syndrome and despair take over and they take you as their husband?]. Several years later, Arthur's father passed away and Arthur became an orphan of the deep [Holy fuck that's dramatic! Is Marv Wolfman writing this entry? Let's see...yep! Either Marv or Len Wein.]
While in his early 20s, Arthur, now dubbed Aquaman by the media [I suppose it's too much to expect from the media to come up with a clever name.], met another young Atlantean outcast who called himself Aqualad (see Aqualad) [Did he see news reports on the mysterious Aquaman and think, "Hey! I'm from the water too! But I'm just a lad! I'll call myself Aqualad! I wonder if there are any girls out there who might want to be Aquagirl?] and the two have been comrades ever since [I wonder if Aquaman "commanded" Aqualad to be his comrade?]. At one point, Atlantis called upon Aquaman to help them defeat alien invaders, then named him their ambassador to the surface world [Did the Atlantis media call him "Terraman"?].
Eventually, Aquaman met Mera, exiled queen [Underwater kingdoms love their banning and exiling and outcasting, don't they?] of an interdimensional water world, and ultimately married her [Now that's the kind of romantic story I want to tell my grandkids. "Me and Geemaw eventually met and ultimately married!" Riveting!].
Soon after, King Juvor died and Aquaman was proclaimed King of Atlantis [Why? Are ambassadors usually second in line to the throne?]. Months later, Mera gave birth to Arthur Jr., who exhibited her super-power of creating solid objects from hard water [Hard water? You mean ice? So they could make ice sculptures?]. Together, this new royal family introduced Atlantis to the outside world.
In time, though the sinister Shark (see Shark) in human guise, deposed Aquaman and forced the family to relocate. The Sea King finally defeated the Shark and was offered the throne once more, but he turned it down, preferring to remain first and foremost a super-hero [You mean a professional crimefighter, right?].
After his son was slain during a battle with his old foe Black Manta (see Black Manta), Aquaman and company [Company? You mean Mera?] moved to the submerged East Coast city of New Venice, where they currently operate out of the ground floor of an old police station [Operate how? Did Aquaman have a Detective Agency?!].
POWERS & WEAPONS
Aquaman's greatest ability is his telepathic mastery over all of the sea's inhabitants [What about penguins? Can he control penguins?]. His body is also more dense than that of a normal human [So why doesn't he explode when he surfaces?!], enabling him to survive the awesome pressures of the deep, as well as extreme changes in temperature [And most importantly, makes him bullet-proof!]. This density gives him superior strength on land, and he is also skilled in hand-to-hand[-to-fin] combat.
Underwater, his swimming speed is in excess of 100 mph [Shouldn't that be 87 knots per hour? I hope my miles to knots conversion button worked since I rarely use it.].
The Sea King is unable to remain out of water indefinitely. This liability developed sometime after adolescence [So it's a secondary sexual liability?], and if Aquaman remains out of contact with water for more than an hour, he weakens, slips into a coma, [gets made fun of by the other members of the Justice League,] and will ultimately die.
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