Name: Aquaman
Universe: Earth-1
Alter Ego: Arthur Curry
Occupation: Ex-King of Atlantis, now Professional Crimefighter
Marital Status: Married
Group Affiliation: Justice League of America
Base of Operations: City of New Venice
Known Relatives: Mera (wife), Orm (half-brother), Arthur Jr. (son, deceased), Tom and Atlanna Curry (parents, deceased)
Height: 6 ft. 1 in.
Weight: 325 lbs.
Hair Color: Blond
Eye Color: Blue
First Appearance: Adventure Comics #229

History:
Tom Curry, a lonely lighthouse keeper, rescued a woman from a hurricane. While nursing her back to health, Curry fell in love with the woman, whose name was Atlanna. The two married and had a son, whom they named Arthur.

As a child, Arthur discovered he had the ability to breathe underwater and the telepathic power to command all creatures of the sea. When Arthur was six, his mother revealed on her deathbed that she was an outcast from the then-hidden sunken city of Atlantis. With his father’s help, young Arthur began training to use his unique abilities. Several years later, Arthur’s father passed away and Arthur became an orphan of the deep.

While in his early 20s, Arthur, now dubbed Aquaman by the media, met another Atlantean outcast who called himself Aqualad and the two have been comrades ever since. At one point, Atlantis called upon Aquaman to help them defeat alien invaders, then named him their ambassador to the surface world.

Eventually, Aquaman met Mera, exiled queen of an interdimensional water world, and ultimately married her.

Soon after, King Juvor died and Aquaman was proclaimed King of Atlantis. Months later, Mera gave birth to Arthur Jr., who exhibited her super-power of creating solid objects from hard water. Together, this new royal family introduced Atlantis to the outside world.

In time, though, the sinister Shark, in human guise, deposed Aquaman and forced the family to relocate. The Sea King finally defeated the Shark and was offered the throne once more, but he turned it down, preferring to remain first and foremost a super-hero.

After his son was slain during a battle with his old for Black Manta, Aquaman and company moved to the submerged East Coast city of New Venice, where they currently operate out of the ground floor of an old police station.

Powers:
Aquaman’s greatest ability is his telepathic mastery over all the sea’s inhabitants. His body is also more dense than that of a normal human, enabling him to survive the awesome pressures of the deep, as well as extreme changes in temperature. This density gives him superior strength on land, and his is also skilled in hand-to-hand combat.

Underwater, his swimming speed is in excess of 100 mph.

The Sea King is unable to remain out of water indefinitely. This liability developed sometime after adolescence, and if Aquaman remains out of contact with water for more than an hour, he weakens, slips into a coma, and will ultimately die.