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Adventure Comics#256
Cover: Curt Swan & Stan Kaye

Adventure Comics #256

Jan 1959 · DC · 0.10 USD
“The Dragnet for Superboy”

Criminals trap Aquaman and abandon him in the desert to die. Aquaman is able to make it to a nearby town, but the crooks cut off the water supply so the townsfolk can't help him. Eventually Topo and his octopus friends help Aquaman get rehydrated, and Aquaman defeats the crooks by causing them to fall into an aquarium's fish tank.

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writer Robert Bernstein · artist Ramona Fradon · inker Ramona Fradon · letterer John Duffy · cover Curt SwanStan Kaye

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letterer John Duffy
cover pencils Curt Swan
cover inks Stan Kaye

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Criminals trap Aquaman and abandon him in the desert to die. Aquaman is able to make it to a nearby town, but the crooks cut off the water supply so the townsfolk can't help him. Eventually Topo and his octopus friends help Aquaman get rehydrated, and Aquaman defeats the crooks by causing them to fall into an aquarium's fish tank.

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