The Aqua duo had an Aquacave and Aquacomputers that work underwater. It seems to me that the Aquaman cartoons were trying to cash in on the camp style of the Batman TV show. I loved watching Aquaman create hard water balls even though that is actually Mera's power. After seeing Black Manta on Challenge of the SuperFriends voiced over by Ted Cassidy, no one seems to hold a candle. The design and Ted Knight's voice for him just didn't do him justice. The only one who I wasn't too hot about was Black Manta. I think he and Space Ghost's monkey Blip were the beginning of useless cartoon characters who had no business hanging out with Super Heroes. It was Tusky the Walrus I could have done without. I enjoyed Aquaman and Aqualad and could handle Mera and the sea horses. As for Aquaman, I didn't see those cartoons until I was a high school senior and we had finally gotten a VCR, so I went to Blockbuster video and rented the Super Powers Aquaman cartoons. I'd already seen Superman and Superboy on the Bozo Show when I was around the ages of 11 or 12. I would have loved to have seen the original format of the DC Super Heroes by Filmation. Being a child of the 70's, I wish I had been around in the late 1960's when Saturday morning programming consisted 80% of animated Super Hero cartoons.
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