{"id":173,"date":"2011-09-25T11:44:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T19:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.illmosis.net\/blog\/?p=173"},"modified":"2011-09-25T11:45:30","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T19:45:30","slug":"happy-birthday-aquaman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.illmosis.net\/blog\/2011\/09\/25\/happy-birthday-aquaman\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Aquaman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WPGH 53 Pittsburgh used air the greatest superhero show ever back in the 70&#8217;s before I was even in Kindergarten. They took all of the syndicated packages of 60&#8217;s hero cartoons, usually shows made of up multiple short stories back then, and made this insane hyper-adventure mixtape. You could see Iron Man, Green Lantern and the Herculoids in the same half-hour. One of my favorite intros from that show was&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"350\" height=\"267\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0Vt11vDjPD0?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0Vt11vDjPD0?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"350\" height=\"267\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Aquaman, King of the Seven Seas. The epic theme song and interesting undersea setting hooked me but I think I was drawn to the idea of being able to creatively solve problems AND punch bad guys in the grill. Today is the 70th anniversary of his first comic book and a website called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aquamanshrine.com\/2011\/09\/happy-70th-birthday-aquaman.html?spref=tw\">the Aquaman Shrine<\/a> is celebrating in full force. I&#8217;ll celebrate here by posting my own Aquaman stuff:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"art.php?art=aquamanflapjack\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"artwork\/aquamanflapjack_color_tn75.jpg\" TITLE=\"Aquaman (B&#038;B style) and Flapjack travel headlong into... ADVENTURE!\" ALT=\"Aquaman (B&#038;B style) and Flapjack travel headlong into... ADVENTURE!\" WIDTH=\"75\" HEIGHT=\"75\"><\/a><a href=\"art.php?art=blackmanta_2008\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"artwork\/blackmanta_stand2008_color_tn75.jpg\" TITLE=\"Black Manta, member of the Legion of Doom and nemesis of Aquaman.\" ALT=\"Black Manta, member of the Legion of Doom and nemesis of Aquaman.\" WIDTH=\"75\" HEIGHT=\"75\"><\/a><a href=\"artwork\/aquaman_l2000-color200x_500p.jpg\" TITLE=\"old Aquaman pic\" WIDTH=\"75\" HEIGHT=\"75\"><IMG SRC=\"artwork\/aquaman_l2000-color200x_tn75.jpg\" ALT=\"old Aquaman pic\" TITLE=\"old Aquaman pic\"><\/a><a href=\"photos\/lego_aquamanjetboat_oldpic01.jpg\"><IMG SRC=\"photos\/lego_aquamanjetboat_oldpic01.jpg\" WIDTH=68 HEIGHT=75 TITLE=\"Aqua-jetski based on the official Lego Killer Croc vehicle's design\" ALT=\"Aqua-jetski based on the official Lego Killer Croc vehicle's design\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m at it, here&#8217;s a fake Vs. screenshot with Aquaman vs. Black Manta from the <a href=\"http:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/gfxgen_vsmaker.php\">ScrollBoss GFX Generator<\/a>. I used Capt. America as a base for Aquaman and Cyclops for Manta.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.illmosis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/gfxgen_jltf_aquaman-vs-manta.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.illmosis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/gfxgen_jltf_aquaman-vs-manta.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"gfxgen_jltf_aquaman-vs-manta\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.illmosis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/gfxgen_jltf_aquaman-vs-manta.png 320w, https:\/\/www.illmosis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/gfxgen_jltf_aquaman-vs-manta-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center>Again, be sure to check out&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:3em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aquamanshrine.com\/2011\/09\/happy-70th-birthday-aquaman.html?spref=tw\">the Aquaman Shrine<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&#8230; for the real undersea shindig in the Sea King&#8217;s name.<br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WPGH 53 Pittsburgh used air the greatest superhero show ever back in the 70&#8217;s before I was even in Kindergarten. They took all of the syndicated packages of 60&#8217;s hero cartoons, usually shows made of up multiple short stories back then, and made this insane hyper-adventure mixtape. You could see Iron Man, Green Lantern and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illmosisupdates","category-site-news","tag-aquaman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illmosis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illmosis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illmosis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illmosis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illmosis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.illmosis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illmosis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illmosis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illmosis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}