Comic Title: Aquaman #4
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: September 1989
On Sale Date: August 1, 1989 Shipping Date August 1, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #169

Shipping Date August 1, 1989
Source: Previews, #5

Direct Market Date August 3, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #110

Copyright Date August 1, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

Cover Price: $1.00
Page Count: 32
Editor: Barbara J. Kesel (Randall)

Title: "The Tide of Battle"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Aquaman (Post-Crisis)

Plotter: Keith Giffen
Scripter: Robert Loren Fleming
Penciller: Curt Swan
Inker: Al Vey
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Tom J. McCraw

Reprinted In:
Aquaman:The Legend of Aquaman TPB (2018)

Feature Character(s)

• Aquaman (last appearance in Aquaman #3; next appearance in Aquaman #5)

Supporting Character(s)

• Mera (last appearance in Aquaman #3; no further appearances)

Villain(s)

• A race of sentient jellyfish (last appearance in Aquaman #3; next appearance in Aquaman #5)
• Several mercenaries (last appearance in Aquaman #3; next appearance in Aquaman #5)

Other Character(s)

• An Atlantean general (next appearance in Aquaman #5)
• A female Atlantean doctor (last appearance in Aquaman #3; next appearance in Aquaman #5)
• Aquaman's advisors (no further appearances)
• Various Atlanteans (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued in part from Aquaman #3 and continues in Aquaman #5.

Synopsis:
Aquaman and the resistance has been victorious in defeating the occupying invasion force. However, Mera was impaled during a fight with Aquaman and now the invaders have surrounded the city. Aquaman mourns the loss of his wife, who suddenly rises from her coffin. Because her alien physiology differs from humans, she survived her injuries. She then opens a portal and returns to her home dimension.

Meanwhile, the people of Atlantis begin starving because of the surrounding forces. The Atlanteans do not have the power to defeat them, but the attackers do not advance either. Finally, one of Aquaman's generals threatens to attack the invaders. Aquaman initially opposes the idea, but he eventually comes to an epiphany regarding the situation.