AQUAMAN #42
Key
AQUAMAN #42
Volume 1 · 1962-1978
Published
December 1968
Cover price
$0.12 USD
Edition
Era
Silver
UPC
RICEVILA71 Contact
Key issue
Yes

Creators

Writer
Steve Skeates
Penciler
Jim Aparo
Inker
Jim Aparo
Letterer
Black Manta (David Hyde), Jim Aparo
Cover artist
Nick Cardy
Editor
Dick Giordano

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Synopsis

Is This My Foe? * 2nd Appearance "BLACK MANTA" Aquaman finally makes it to the land of the Maarzons, a tribe of hostile, primitive underwater people who attack all outsiders. In the midst of the battle, he is astonished to see Black Manta, his old enemy, who has gained dominion over the tribe. When Black Manta learns Aquaman is searching for the missing Mera, he says that Aquaman shall learn of her if he fights him in a personal duel. Aquaman agrees, but is wounded in the arm during the duel. Nonetheless, he defeats Black Manta. The villain manages to become invisible and escape in his undersea craft, but tells Aquaman before he departs that he knows nothing of Mera’s whereabouts. Meanwhile, in Atlantis, Aqualad is still recuperating from his own wound, and Narkran, whom Aquaman has left as ruler in absentia, is becoming tyrannic.