As seen on the cover illustration of ADVENTURE COMICS # 441 (DC Comics, Cover Date: September-October, 1975), Aquaman's Atlantis is under attack by a criminal gang with a 16th Century Pirate fetish!
But, ya gotta wonder if these underwater underachievers were doomed from the start, considering some of the weaponry employed!
Like a flintlock? Beneath the waves? I suppose you could hit someone with the gun-butt.
Oh, no... wait! This thing actually CAN do some damage!
...Just not to Aquaman!
But, there's simply no excuse for... A SWORD? How could you swing it in anything but slow motion?
Methinks our pirate-pals should have read the entire comic book a tad more closely. If they had, they would have come across THIS UNUSUAL AD...
...Drawn in typically cheesy 1970s style, to boot!
Even if you failed to conquer Atlantis, you could still be a hit with wide-eyed, simplistically-rendered blonde-gals, when you charm them with a song from the "electric guitar you just made yourself"!
As so many of the old ads used to say... "Amaze your friends!"
And, if you don't have friends, because you spend too much time reading comic books, then just go "Amaze some random strangers!"
JUST LOOK AT ALL THE NEAT STUFF YOU CAN MAKE!
Ya think the pirates could make a weapon that might actually defeat Aquaman?
"Maybe not -- but... What?" Oh, yeah... You can get away in a nifty "Diving Submarine"... that you can BUILD YOURSELF!
And, once you do, you won't need to KIDNAP MERA!
...'Cause NOW you can get a gal like THIS!
Awww... Don't they make a charming couple?
If *I* had a choice, I would build a "Surveyor's Transit"!
...Since I like both SURVEYS...
...And TRANSIT!
Talk about "Win/Win!"
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