A meeting of Aquaman and Namor is in Marvel's spoof title What The...? #7. In it, the Revengers meet Just-A-League and duke it out like they have to in this kind of story. While the others fight, Silas Mariner and A-wet-man drink tea and discuss their current lives.
This comic book is worth the money just for the fun little in-jokes that only comic fans can understand. The splash page has a listing of the prime characters in the story, such as: Sore (Thor), The Least (The Beast), She-Bulk, Superb-Man, Marshmellow Man Hunter, Mr. Bat-Mom, and Plastelongatic Man... and the scene with Bland Canary pouring Nair on Tiggera is priceless.
By Scott Lobdell, Rurik Tyler, and Brad K Joyce.
Other (unconfirmed by me) Marvel spoofs of Aquaman: Not Brand Eech #4, in a story by Gary Freidrich and Marie Severin, Prince No-More, the Sunk-Mariner, battled Aqualung Man of the Just'a League of Americans. And a member of Squadron Supreme was called Amphibion.
contributed by Dale J. Roberts.
In case you didn't know, this was a "funny animal"/superhero comic by DC in the early 80s. Captain Carrot was a super-powered rabbit (which he maintained by eating magic or radioactive carrots), and his crew was made up of various other super-powered animals. In issues 14 and 15, they teamed with Just-a Lotta Animals (a "funny animal" Justice League) in a cross-over called "Crisis on Earth-C."
Aquaman was represented by "Aquaduck, the amphibious avenger of the seven seas--" basically a muscular, yellow duck in an Aquaman suit. The drawing of the duck is reminiscent of the more anthropomorphic ducks in Disney's Duck Tales cartoons from a few years ago, especially Scrooge McDuck's assistant, whose name I forget. In one of the battle scenes Aquaduck makes friends with a whale named Melville.
By Scott Shaw, E. Nelson Bridwell, Al Gordon, and Carol Lay
contributed by Richard Duncan.
You didn't think I'd leave this one out, did you?
Sergio Aragones decides to take up Comic Book writing, and drags his poor partner Mark Evanier along for the ride in this less-than-serious look at the DC Universe. The story pokes fun at all the DC cliches and discontinuity. Aquaman appears once the heroes have assembled for a crossover, and gets his scene in a page of moaning about tragedy happening to popular characters such as Flash, Green Lantern, and Aquaman.
A "mystery" villain and an odd sense of humor make this one of the more interesting Else-Aquamen I've found.
By Mark Evanier and Sergio Aragones.
Aquaman also makes a miniscule appearance in Sergio Aragones Massacres Marvel. And when I say "miniscule" I mean really, really tiny. On the first page, Sergio is sitting in a pile of DC comic books, thinking they are Marvel titles. One of the titles is Aquaman. And that's it.
Whatever there is to be said about this book, it's probably not enough to explain it. Nevertheless, here's my bold attempt.
You may have heard of the infamous Elseworlds 80-Page Giant? The book was printed up and ready to ship when Paul Levitz nixed it, and had the entire run pulped. A cry was raised among the fans, who considered it censorship of the worst kind!
It was quickly learned that the entire run had NOT been pulped. In fact, lots and lots of copies had gotten out because the run had already been shipped to England so the distribution would be on the same schedule as the United States and Canada.
In other words: There were copies to be had!
Not surprisingly, the copies were soon on eBay and other auction sites, and commanding a hefty premium. Bidders were going nuts trying to score a copy of what was now the single-most rare modern comic-book ever!
I have a wonderful British fan to thank for my copy. I didn't even have to pay $300 to get it, thank goodness.
Anyway, speculation went wild as to why the book had been pulped, because those who read it right after it came out didn't think there was much wrong with it.
The consensus was that a story by the title "Letitia Lerner, Superman's Babysitter" was to blame for the pulping, because in one scene the superpowered superbaby is accidently put into a microwave oven. Digital copies of the story made the rounds of the internet. The writer/artist Kyle Baker started to get awards and acclaim. Fans demanded that the story be put out.
Did DC listen to the fans? Perhaps. And so when the Bizarro Comics Hardcover was announced, it wasn't a surprise that Kyle Baker's story was part of it. Some people even thought that the whole Bizarro Comics idea came out of the need by DC to print the story and be done with it.
Whatever.
To make a long story short (too late!) DC reprinted "Letitia Lerner" in the Bizarro Comics Hardcover, along with a whole buncha other odd stories that would never get printed in a regular DC book, or even in a regular DC Elseworld. At the time of this writing, "Letitia Lerner" is the only story from the lamented Elseworlds 80-Page Giant that has been reprinted.
The premise of the book is that Mxyzptlk wakes up one day to find out he's ruler of the 5th Dimension, and needs to save the 5th dimension from an alien invader by the name of "A".
Forced to choose a champion, Mxy accidently lands... Bizarro. So he works with what he has, trying to get Bizarro to understand superheroes. At one point Mxy is wearing an amalgam of many superhero uniforms, including Aquaman's pants. When Mxy looks at Bizarro's brain to see if any of it is sinking in, he sees a cave of heroes, including Aqualad hitting on Black Canary, and Aquaman in a puddle (by John Kerschbaum, Art and Tom McCraw, Color).
Desperate to get Bizarro to understand, Mxy shows him a bunch of comic books, and after reading them, Bizarro promptly starts to draw his own comics.
Aquaman stories in the Bizarro Comics Hardcover are:
Aquaman also appears in a few other stories and his old water-sprite friend Quisp even makes an appearance.
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