|King of the Seven Seas|
King of Atlantis
Protector of Earth's Oceans
|Former sovereign of Atlantis|
|Nation or Planet of Origin|
|Atlantis, Atlantic Ocean|
|Base of Operations|
Atlantis, Atlantic Ocean
Sub Diego, California
Mobile within Earth's oceans.
Biologically typical Atlantian with the ability to breath both above and below the surface of water, super-human strength, speed, agility, stamina and keen eyesight adapted to the pressure and darkness of deep water depths.Mutation resulting in the ability of limited telepathy with surface beings and enhanced telepathy with aquatic beings.
Note: Strength wanes after being from water for extended periods of time.
Cybernetic Hand: Appendage on left hand is capable of taking multiple shapes.
Note: In one story arc Aquman's cybernetic appendage was replaced by a mystical bracelet which creates a hand of water which can be mentally controlled. The current incarnation of Aquaman has both of his hands.
Hydro Pants: Garment which holds moisture in reserve to be absorbed by Atlantians when outside of water for short periods of time.
Aquaman Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7
Aquaman: Time and Tide
Justice League America
Justice League of America
More Fun Comics
|More Fun Comics #73 (Nov. 1941)|
|Mort Weisinger & Paul Norris|
Aquaman was raised at the bottom of the ocean by a marine archeologist that had discovered the lost city of Atlantis. Although human, he was able to live underwater for long periods of time and had adapted to the great pressures and low light of the ocean, and communicated with ocean life audibly by "speaking" their language.
Prince Orin, was abandoned on a reef as an infant due to the color of his hair, blonde, which was considered the mark of the Curse of Kordax by the people of Atlantis. Found and raised by a pod of dolphins, he then later befriended a lighthouse keeper named Arthur Curry, who taught the young man language and the ways of surface dwellers. Orin took his adopted father's name as his own.
Eventually the abandoned prince would return to Atlantis, reclaim the mantle of king and protectorate of the seven seas as Aquaman.