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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.”
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Golden Age Aquaman?Think OUTSIDE the Box! For the BEST in Repro & Custom Packaging! -
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I got a comic for Christmas from a friend. It was called Secret Origin and it had this story and Robins origin reprinted in it. I think the book came out in 78.Comment
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I know of this origin, but I can't recall when I first learned of it. It's interesting to think what could've been done with this version of Aquaman, had DC not revisioned him in the '50s.
I prefer Arthur's green gloves, though.
(And doesn't Marvel's SS Amphibion have an origin that very similar to G-A Aquaman?)WANTED: Dick Grayson SI trousers; gray AJ Mustang horse; vintage RC Batman (Bruce Wayne) head; minty Wolfman tights; mint Black Knight sword; minty Launcelot boots; Lion Rock (pale) Dracula & Mummy heads; Lion Rock Franky squared boots; Wayne Foundation blue furniture; Flash Gordon/Ming (10") unbroken holsters; CHiPs gloved arms; POTA T2 tan body; CTVT/vintage Friar Tuck robes, BBP TZ Burgess Meredith glasses.Comment
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I think I have that comic somewhere too. always liked A-man. wish they would give the character some respectComment
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Loved that Secret Origins series and the one Roy Thomas started in the late 1980s, too.Comment
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They should really do a TPB collection of that original Secret Origins series.....Think OUTSIDE the Box! For the BEST in Repro & Custom Packaging!Comment
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DC's doing a Secret Origins hardback reprinting of the silver-age origins from the two 1960s Secret-origin 80-page-giant type editions. But I'd like to see the Golden-age origins, reprinted in that first series. A good companion to Secret Origins was Wanted, featuring first appearances of villains.
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For the first time in a single volume, it's the origins of: Wonder Woman, the Superman/Batman team, The Challengers of the Unknown, Martian Manhunter, the Justice League of America, Aquaman, The Flash, The Atom, Doctor Fate, Bizarro and many others, as they originally appeared in the 1950s and 1960s - the Silver Age of comics.Comment
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