Golden Age Appearances of Aquaman (1940-1955)

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Adventure #103

No

"Footsteps in the Ocean" - thwarts Axis agents off the coast of China


Adventure #104

No

"Four Fish to Fetch" - resolves dispute between scientist and local fisherman


Adventure #105

No

"The Impossible Voyage" - thwarts crooks harassing sailor


Adventure #106

No

"The Ghost Ship" - vs. crooks after a uranium shipment


Adventure #107

No

"Ware Water" - vs. Black Jack


Adventure #108

No

"The Stolen Light" - rescues lighthouse keeper from Nazi war criminals


Adventure #109

No

"The Waters of the World" - crooks try to subvert sea-mining methods


Adventure #110

No

"The Monster and the Mermaid" - vs. crooks with fake sea monster


Adventure #111

No

"The Man Who Robbed Davy Jones Locker" -Aquaman fights thieves while on vacation in the Philippines


Adventure #112

No

"The Television Thieves" - vs. Black Jack


Adventure #113

No

"Fathoms in Film" - Aquaman helps a film studio make a "Merman" movie when the star becomes jealous of him


Adventure #114

No

"Skyscraper Aquarium" - vs. Black Jack


Adventure #115

No

"The Phantom Fleet"- vs. Black Jack


Adventure #116

No

"Peril of Pearl Valley" - intervenes when a pearl thief builds an artificial monster in a rich oyster bed


Adventure #117

No

"The Flying Dutchman" - thwarts a criminal scheme involving a fake clipper ship


Adventure #119

No

"The Floating Observatory"- defeats Joe Saturn when he hijacks a floating astronomical observatory ship


Adventure #120

No

"Aquaman goes to College" - Aquaman learns ichthyology and wins swim meet to get money for school

Aquaman: A Celebration of 75 years

Adventure #121

No

"Shades of John Paul Jones" - captured in a whirlpool, Aquaman travels back in time to help defend the Bonhomme Richard, or is it just a dream?


Adventure #122

No

"Operation Justice" - Aquaman reveals to the navy how a criminal ends up on Bikini Atoll minutes before the first nuclear test


Adventure #123

No

"Villainy in Venice" - captures arts thieves in Italy


Adventure #124

No

"The Sea Serpent" - A giant snake results from scientists experimenting with enlargement sera


Adventure #125

No

"D-Day in Davy Jones Locker" - vs. Black Jack


Adventure #126

No

"The Man in the Iron Shoe" - vs. gangsters on a submarine


Adventure #127

No

"A Fish Out of Water" - vs.. Black Jack


Adventure #128

No

"The Sea Circus" - Aquaman hosts an aquatic sealife show to raise money for a conservation project affecting local fish life.


Adventure #129

No

"The Treasure Beneath the Lake" - thwarts crooks looking for treasure in a lake, only to learn that it was buried beneath a dam and lost forever


Adventure #130

No

"Sweetheart of the Seven Seas" - Aquaman falls for a movie actress famous for her swimming


Adventure #131

No

"The Undersea Post Office" - helps a postal office secure a mail charter when criminals sink his ship


Adventure #132

No

"The Aquagirl"- A businessman contacts Aquaman to solve the mystery of a mermaid which turns out to be an attempt to ruin the businessman


Adventure #133

No

"The Great White Whale" - Defeats Captain Mohab in his pursuit of a white whale (a Moby Dick riff)


Adventure #134

No

"Exiled from the Sea" - When exposure to chemicals makes Aquaman offensive to sea life, he has to remain out of the water for 30 days, inspiring a crime spree by Black Jack.


Adventure #135

No

"The Ship That Dared Not Land" - Aquaman helps out scientists that have created a malignant artificial life form on their ship


Adventure #136

No

"Water Boy" - Crooks force a high school swimmer to help them commit crimes.


Adventure #137

No

"The Undersea Lost World" - vs. Black Jack


Adventure #138

No

"Marooned in the Deep" - vs. Black Jack


Adventure #139

No

"The Man Who Owned The Sea" - Thwarts Simon Drago when he tries to claim a fake contract gives him ownership of the oceans


Adventure #140

No

"The Sleuth of the Sea" - I:Sea Sleuth (Phineas Pike)


Adventure #141

No

"Return of the Sea Sleuth" - Sea Sleuth app., vs. Black Jack


Adventure #142

No

"Undersea Big Game Hunt" -  Defeats big game hunters who stumble up his marine sanctuary of endangered species


Adventure #143

No

"The Second Robinson Crusoe" - Sea Sleuth app., vs. Black Jack


Adventure #144

No

"A Martian Adventure" - Rescues an a hidden valley from loss of water


Adventure #145

No

The Sea Hitch-Hiker" - helps a comic artist travel the world by sea


Adventure #146

No

"Aquaman Loses His Powers" - vs. Black Jack


Adventure #147

No

"The Man Who Was Rescued 100 Times" - Actor Dan Danbar (ED: Not Dan the Dynamite) keeps needing rescuing, revealing a movie company staging events to make Aquaman intervene.


Adventure #148

No

"Cowboy of the Coral Seas" - vs. Black Jack


Adventure #149

No

"Undersea Artist" -  Helps a painter of undersea scenes who inadvertently runs afoul of crooks after a sunken treasure ship


Adventure #150

No

"The Boy Who Went to Sea" - vs. Black Jack


Adventure #151

No

"The Biography of Black Jack" - vs. Black Jack


Adventure #152

No

"Don't Go Near the Water!" - Aquaman stages a cross-country swim feat for charity after a crook splashes him with a chemical that makes him allergic to water


Adventure #154

No

"Aquaman's Sea Circus" - Aquaman is captured by a criminal aquarium operator


Adventure #156

No

"Aquaman vs. The Sea" - Aquaman thwarts crooks from throwing a charity swim race


Adventure #158

No

“Portrait in Peril” – An artists risks a lot to capture a painting of Aquaman


Adventure #160

No

"Aquaman's Sea Cops" - stops looters of undersea wrecks


Adventure #162

No

"Under the Sea for Life" - Aquaman dissuades a young man for pursuing a life beneath the waves


Adventure #164

No

"The Strangest Questions in the World" – A Coast Guard recruit and friend of Aquaman gets an odd job doing research for Coast Guard


Adventure #167

No

"Treasures 0f the Sea" – A scavenger coerces Aquaman into helping him pillage the sea floor


Adventure #168

No

"Aquaman: One Man Crew" – When a crooked captain bribes off the crew of a honest man, Aquaman intervenes to help him fix the problem.


Adventure #170

No

"Mutiny Under the Sea" – captures a crook with a device giving him telepathic control of marine life


Adventure #171

No

"Mystery of the "Disappearing Mermaids" - puts on Aquacade to solve mystery


Adventure #172

No

“Aquaman Leaves The Sea” – Aquaman has to improvise to travel inland and recover stolen pearls


Adventure #173

No

"The First Underwater Gold Mine" - help hoodwinked Westerners


Adventure #174

No

“The Whale That Was Wanted For Murder” – When a whale swallows a $1M brooch, a crook makes up story to try to get the whale killed.

Aquaman: A Celebration of 75 years

Adventure #175

No

“The Mystery of the Disappearing Island” – Aquaman clears  the name of a son of a friend, a young sea captain


Adventure #176

No

“The Ex-King of the Sea” – Crooks rob Aquaman of his ability to communicate with sea life


Adventure #177

No

“The Man Who Was Aquaman’s Double” – A lookalike to Aquaman helps his distract and defeat crooks.


Adventure #178

No

“The Return of Captain Flint” – An actor turns to crime, faking a blow to the head making him a pirate


Adventure #179

No

“The Raft of Doom” – vs. crooks target anthropologists studying an ancient migration path.


Adventure #180

No

“The Bank Beneath the Sea” – When Aquaman helps store valuables in the depths for safe-keeping, crooks come after it


Adventure #181

No

“The Evil King of the Sea” – A crook mimics Aquaman’s powers in attempt to take his place


Adventure #182

No

“The Ocean Restaurant” – Aquaman helps diner owners recover when shady landlords take their property


Adventure #183

No

“The First Undersea Jail” – Aquaman tries to reform ill-behaved animals until they help him with some crooks


Adventure #184

No

“At Sea in the Stone Age” – Aquaman discovers a pool that takes him back to prehistoric times


Adventure #185

No

“The Five Lives of the Sea King” – Crooks try to hire expert divers in hopes of hiring and killing Aquaman


Adventure #186

No

“The Dive-In Theater” – vs. crooks targeting a floating drive-in


Adventure #187

No

"The Queen of the Sea" - Aquaman encounters an uber-competitive swimmer determined to outperform him


Adventure #188

No

“Calling Dr. Aquaman” – Aquaman capture gold smugglers while tending sick animals.


Adventure #189

No

"The Nautical Treasure Hunt" - capture crooks trying to run an insurance scam on a chest of jewels


Adventure #190

No

“The Hunter of the Seven Seas” – Aquaman reforms a trophy hunter targeting sea animals


Adventure #191

No

“The Aqua-Cop of the Sea” – Aquaman pretends to police boat traffic to break up a stolen boat ring


Adventure #192

No

“Murder in the Fish Preserve” – Criminal murder fish by name to signal their cronies til Aquaman breaks it up.


Adventure #193

No

“The Secret of the Sea Monster” – An ancient sea monster who feed on coal attacks ships until Aquaman lures into a mine


Adventure #194

No

“The Outlaw Navy” – thwarts the criminal Admiral Duko and his crook collection of ships


Adventure #195

No

“The River Gang” – Aquaman breaks up a sea-going protection racket


Adventure #196

No

"The Topsy-Turvy World" - finds a world with solids seas and swimmable earth


Adventure #197

No

"Aquaman Walks the Plank" - vs. Captain Samson, a renegade whaler


Adventure #198

No

“Daredevil of the Seven Seas” – Aquaman and an ex-PT pilot scam some crooks into revealing their loot


Adventure #199

No

“The Fire-Fighter of the Seven Seas” – Aquaman helps a traumatized firefighter regain his perspective


Adventure #200

No

"Aquaman, Microbe Hunter" - Is shrunk and swims through bloodstream of stricken man


Adventure #201

No

“The Stars Who Couldn’t Swim” – Thwarts crook disguised as swimming trainer


Adventure #202

No

“The Menace of the Freak Fish” – Aquaman creates a fake ocean danger to help the Navy test weapons in secrecy


Adventure #203

No

"The Shark with the Human Brain" - A criminal turned into a shark

Super-DC Giant #S26

Adventure #204

No

“The Lagoon of Doom” – Aquaman thwarts men harvesting gold from seawater even tho it hurts the sealife


Adventure #206

No

"The Haunted Island"- Crooks "haunt" an island to hide until Aquaman finds them

Action Comics #405

More Fun #73

No

(no title) - 1st Appearance of Aquaman, Origin

Secret Origins, vol. 2 #6, More Fun #73 Millenium Edition, Aquaman: A Celebration of 75 years

More Fun #74

No

(no title) - I: Black Jack, vs. Black Jack


More Fun #75

No

(no title) - Thwarts Black Jack's efforts to subvert a small South Seas island


More Fun #76

No

"Freedom of the Seas" - thwarts scheme to wreck and plunder ships


More Fun #77

No

(no title) - vs. Black Jack masquerading as wealthy Rajah to get access to wealthy victims


More Fun #78

No

(no title) - vs. Master Sargasso


More Fun #79

No

(no title) - vs. Krutz, a Nazi inventor


More Fun #80

No

"The Scourge of the Seven Seas" - vs. Black Jack


More Fun #81

No

"Champ of the Waves" - thwarts crooks trying to kill a swimming champ


More Fun #82

No

"King of Convict Island" - when the Japanese cut off a island of prisoners, Aquaman prevents Vascar from becoming a despot


More Fun #83

No

"Thomas Jefferson's Treasure" - vs. Blackjack


More Fun #84

No

"Raid on Atlantis" - vs. crooks who want to capture Aquaman for display


More Fun #85

No

"The Unhappy Hunting Ground" - vs. seal fur poachers


More Fun #86

No

"Race Around the World" - vs. Black Jack


More Fun #87

No

"Ark of the Ancients" - discovers survivors of Atlantis


More Fun #88

No

"The Man Who Chased the Rainbow" - vs. crooks threatening a scientist


More Fun #89

No

"The Stream-Lined Buccaneers" - vs. Black Jack

Aquaman: A Celebration of 75 years

More Fun #90

No

"Somewhere in the Pacific" - wins the Navy Cross for rescuing trapped soldiers and defeating Japanese subs


More Fun #91

No

"Marauders of the Mississippi" - captures river pirates of the Mississippi River


More Fun #92

No

"Saga of the Seven Sisters" - drama follows an old clipper ship when it's hijacked first by thieves and then Nazis


More Fun #93

No

"Convoy to Murmansk"- helps a Russian munitions ship with an all-woman crew make it safely to Russia despite Nazi attacks


More Fun #94

No

"Battle of Italy" - helps Allies fend off Axis force in the Mediterranean and helps British general get home


More Fun #95

No

"Guerillas of Fen-Shu"- helps the Chinese home front fend off Japanese invaders


More Fun #96

No

"Champion of War" - helps a Chinese swimmer fool Japanese occupation forces


More Fun #97

No

"Penguin Island" - helps rich man avoid his heirs


More Fun #98

No

"Treasure of the Deep" - helps a man who thinks he is able to extract gold from water


More Fun #99

No

"The Smoking Volcano" - catches thieves hiding out in an active volcano


More Fun #100

No

"The Captain of Cactus Gulch" - foils illegal whaling scheme


More Fun #101

No

"Orphans of the Sea" - an old aquarium worker finds it hard to abandon fish he has fed so long

More Fun #101 Millenium Edition

More Fun #102

No

"Silent Sounds" - rescues scientists experimenting with ultrasound


More Fun #103

No

"The Professor Goes to School" - While educating Professor Kenyon, Aquaman foils some crooks in the South Seas


More Fun #104

No

"The Great Goldfish Bowl" - foils greedy guardian of a wealthy heir


More Fun #105

No

"Be-Kind-To-Whales Week" - captures some rouge whalers


More Fun #106

No

"The Liar Who Told the Truth" - helps get old sea dog into an elite club and feed off attack fish


More Fun #107

No

"Blackie, Come Home" - recovers lost sealer and captures poachers


World's Finest #6

No

"The Zoo of the Deep" - vs. poachers