Comic Title: Aquaman #1
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: June 1989
On Sale Date: April 25, 1989 Shipping Date April 25, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #163

Shipping Date April 25, 1989
Source: Previews, #2

Copyright Date April 25, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

Direct Market Date April 27, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #93, #94, #95

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

Title: "Aquarium"
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 Invasion #2; next appearance in Aquaman #2)

Supporting Character(s)

• Mera (last appearance in Aquaman Special #1; next appearance in Aquaman #2)

Villain(s)

• A race of sentient jellyfish (next appearance in Aquaman #2)
• A political prisoner (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Jared (a resistance leader; next appearance in Aquaman #2)
• Lord Wexel, Pletus, and an Atlantean general (all die in flashback; no further appearances)
• Various Atlanteans (no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Aqualad (in flashback)

Comments:
This story continues in part in Aquaman #2.

Synopsis:
After finding several Atlantean outposts destroyed, Aquaman returns to Atlantis which has been conquered by an outside force. To gain entry into the city, Aquaman pretends to be an escaping prisoner. He is captured and returned to the Aquarium where political prisoners are held.

Inside the prison, he meets several other prisoner. One of them explains that after Aquaman left, Vulko died. Mera went insane and was confined to an asylum. Two factions were left fighting for power when the invaders arrived. The military faction lost its leader in the first battle, leaving a man named Pletus in charge. Pletus led Atlantis into ruin and surrendered to the invaders.

That night, Aquaman attempts to leave the prison. The prisoner who filled him in on recent history tries to stop him. Aquaman bests him in a fight and is then introduced to the resistance leader Jared.