Black Manta Vs. Attuma

 

Say what you want about the DCEU Aquaman movies, they had some great action sequences and Black Manta was visualized very well.  James Wan definitely remembered what made the villain so cool to all of us kids reading of his exploits or watching Super Friends back in the day.

Black Manta and Doctor Doom

 

Time for a good old fashioned super-villain team up.  Sometimes it was hard for me to get into villain-centric tales as a kid - I wanted to have someone to root for.  When the villains were battling other villains, however, it was a different story.  Then it was easier to pick a side and cheer on a bad guy.

Aquaman and The Defenders

 

Aquaman last battled Attuma in STF #2828

Aquaman and Namor have also a bit of history on this blog.  They last met trying battling Mer-Mutates in STF #2270, tried to avert war in Issue #1105, faced the sea's wrath back in Issue #751 and starred in my very first STF two-parter in Issue #3 and Issue #4.

Aquaman Vs. Attuma

1989 is remembered fondly as being the summer of Batman, but there was another comics book event that I also remember well. Atlantis Attacks was a fun event that ran across the Marvel Annuals that year, and it was a pretty fun read.  Company-wide story lines were still relatively new for Marvel at that point, and it felt like a big deal.