Aquaman 1962 #39 - reader copy - $5.00
The alien femme fatale Aliena manipulates Aquaman into digging up the alien substance utrium from the bottom of the sea. The substance had been placed there by an alien police force in order to scare off the fugitive Ka-arl. Aliena falls in love with Aquaman and is unable to kill him. She gives her life to save him from Ka'arl.
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- How to Kill a Sea King! - Story across 23 pages in three parts of 8.5, 8.5, and 4.5 pages.
- - Editorial from Giordano; letters from I. Vartanoff, Vincent Ruscavage, Steven Oliva, and excerpts from other readers' letters.
- - Idea from Teresa Huggins, Nashville, Tenn. This feature was also printed in The Adventures of Jerry Lewis #106.
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