Superboy travels into Hypertime strapped to the back of a bomb, and eventually ends up in the dimension of Black Zero, a clone Superboy who managed to grow up and went bad when the people wouldn't accept him as a replacement for the Superman killed by Doomsday. When Black Zero took over his world, he'd killed the old heroes and replaced them with new versions. This is the Aquaman of that dimension.

By Karl Kesel and Tom Grummett

Let's just thank the powers that be that Kyle Rayner doesn't have control over Aquaman's look.

In a Green Lantern story, Kyle had to fight an artificial intelligence that could easily predict any method he used to try to defeat it. When he realizes that nothing he thinks will work against it will work, he let's his imagination loose and attacks the robot with creations that look suspiciously like what an artist like him would come up with...

Kyle envisions Aquaman as a pirate with a ridiculous sword stuck on his hand.

The Justice League is coming back, with Aquaman included in the fray. But first, they have to defeat the dream world they've been somehow sucked into.

Issue one shows Garth and Dolphin, now executives at the Red Tide Tuna Company in New Carthage, talking about Arthur Curry, a fellow exec and former crewman given an executive position in charge of environmental concerns after he lost his left hand in a factory accident. The melancholy Arthur knows he has no power, and is only a few short steps short of being bitter.

The neatly trimmed beard and ponytailed hair make this Aquaman very attractive, and it's almost a shame when Bruce Wayne wakes Arthur up in the traditional manner in issue two, and we get down to the old costume... *sigh*.

This Midsummer Nightmare led to the reformation of the Justice League, and the return of the heavy hitters. Suddenly it seems like a dream come true.

By Fabian Nicieza, Mark Waid, Jeff Johnson, Darick Robertson, Jon Holdredge, and Hanibal Rodriguez.

The great DC/Marvel crossover, slated as a fight between the great heroes of the two universes, featured our fave prominently in the second issue, fighting his equal from the Marvel universe, the ever egotistical Namor. Both the ex-Monarchs had a good time of it, until Aquaman got tired of Namor's sense of humor and dropped a whale on him, effectively immobilizing him and ending the fight. It wasn't the most honest way to win, but you use the tools you have... By Peter David, Dan Jurgens, and Josef Rubinstein.

The rest of DC didn't fare so well, but rather than destroy it as promised, some fun little obvious inaccessible plot devices were used to merge the two universes into one: The Amalgam Universe. Fortunately, Aquaman exists in the Amalgam universe, though merged (as all the characters seem to be) with his counterpart: Namor. Together they make The Mariner, King of Atlantis and First Among Mutants. With Namor's Ego and Aquaman's Attitude and the disolution of a different sort of Justice League than he dissolved in the DC Universe, this guy is rocking!

The book where the Marine-Man shines is JLX (In Their Own Book - At Last!!), and the plot involves lots of super-heroes beating each other up, then a bunch of super-heroes (Mariner included) finding Atlantis and then beating up a bunch of super-villian mutant hunters. Very X-Title style, but also with enough nods to the DC past I know and love to be worth the pennies spent on it.

By Mark Waid, Gerard Jones, Howard Porter, and John Dell.

In All Access, Issue #4, Access brought in the Justice League to face the X-Men. I won't get started on an X-Men vs Justice League debate right now, though I can bet you can guess which side I think would win. In any case, the two teams got Amalgamated, whoops!

I can't remember all the combinations, but the Aquaman one was quite interesting. Aquaman and Iceman combine to form... er... what do we call him? My husband suggests that he's become the mighty Slushman! I thought of various combinations of "Aqua" and "Ice" before giving up. But thank goodness for Chroma City and its Amalgam Annotations, because the perfect name resides there: Icebreaker

By Ron Marz, Jackson Guice, and Joe Rubenstein

Wizard magazine issue #71 had an interesting article made up of Wizard's Amalgam Wishlist. These characters were Amalgams that Wizard would like to see. As Amalgams go, these were well thought out and interesting. Now, I won't say that this Wizard Wishlist Amalgam involves Aquaman in any way, but it does seem appropriate to put it here.

Rocketed from the doomed aquatic world of Krypton, the infant Namor-El crashed onto a similarly water-based planet: Earth. Adopted by the king and queen of the underwater continent Atlantis, Namor-El was raised by the monarchy as one of its own. Accustomed to water pressure at any depth, Namor-El is nigh-invulnerable, can breathe underwater, has super-strength and incredible stamina. Now, acting as a liaison between Atlantis and the surface world, Namor-El had become the ultimate ecological warrior traveling the world's oceans fighting for conservation, preservation and the Atlantean way as... Supermanta!

Concept by the Wizard Staff

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