Robin, Kid Flash and Aqualad joined forces to fight crime on a few occasions. With Aquaman's approval, Aqualad became a founding member of the Teen Titans that Robin was forming.
After a few minutes of frolicking, the Sea King reveals the spout is courtesy of a whale! Seemingly making progress, Aquaman then introduces the boy to his octopus pal Topo and soon dubs "Aqualad" - and so the adventure begins! That doesn't really work, so Aquaman tries again, taking the boy to a water spout. So he was exiled.Īquaman tries to make the young foundling happy, but giving him a "hula hoop" made of eels, in an effort to get rid of his fear of sea creatures. Startled by Aquaman's sea creature friends, the boy cried for his protection, for though he could breathe oxygen through water as all Atlanteans can, he suffered from a curious malady: he was a afraid of fish! This why he was not expelled right away – they wanted to see if he’d grow out of this fear. These children rarely lived longer than a few days, but this little boy (clearly at least eleven years old) was an exception to the rule. In cases of such rare births, it was the practice of the authorities in Atlantis to send the afflicted child to the surface in hopes that a passing boat might find it. It didn't take long to discern that the child was a reject from Atlantis his unusual purple-hued eyes were the visible sign of his tragic origin – a throwback to the air-breathing ancestors of the pre-submerged continent. A strange little pod containing a sleeping small boy floated on the surface of the ocean, and as Aquaman opened the lid, the child awoke. In the parallel universe of Earth-One on a seemingly normal day, Aquaman came upon a curious sight during one of his routine patrols. 3.2 Appearances from the Filmation series: The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure (1967-1968):.3.1 Appearances from the Filmation series:The Adventures of Aquaman (1967):.