From them, he was able to teach his son how to breathe underwater, and using the power of the oceans to make himself strong and fast. He managed to make a water-proof home in one of the buildings and lived there discovering ancient texts and devices. His father discovered the ruins of an undersea city at great depths which he was convinced was Atlantis. His mother died when he was a baby, but no hint that she was not a normal human. The readers aren't told his name although his father is supposedly a famous undersea explorer. The Golden Age Aquaman is alike and substantially different from the Silver-Age one. Jack Andrews is your typical comicbook athlete and high schooler, ie in addition to being a champion all round 4-star athlete, he finds himself embroiled in fighting crooks and such on and off the field and court.Īquaman: 1941, More Fun #73. Despite his relative obscurity today, he was a successful back-up hero, lasting for six years. He fought mostly normal criminals and spies but also a few more coloful foes such as the Talker, the Parrot, and Dr. He is partnered by the parrot Static who like many of the animal side-kicks, shows unusually high intelligence. He has no innate powers, but his costume has skates in the boots that allow him to cruise along power lines and such and he has radios in his ear pieces. Air Wave is one of the heroes who is a lawyer in his normal identity and decides to also fight crime in a costume.
