Aqualad and Aquagirl uncovered one of his criminal operations in Mississippi, and it was revealed that he had been smuggling guns to the villainous King Karshon who had dethroned and exiled Aquaman. Īfter burying him under tons of rubble, Aquaman still managed to escape through a network of underground caves. He also hired a robotics engineer named Weisbogg to destroy the city's dome with a mechanical Bugala, although this plan also failed.
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He also joined the short-lived Injustice League.īlack Manta began a series of more vicious personal attacks on Aquaman, beginning with an assault on Atlantis' agricultural system. Taking the name Black Manta, he and his masked army became a force to be reckoned with. Īs an adult, he designed a costume (primarily a black wetsuit with bug-eyed helmet that was able to shoot blasting rays from its eyes) and fashioned a high-tech submersible inspired by black manta rays. Afterward, the boy used the syringe used to help him speak to murder the doctor and escape. Using his newfound ability to seem normal, the boy put his doctor at ease enough to unstrap him. One of these experiments was successful enough that he became able to speak in complete sentences. The boy could barely speak, usually repeating a few words, such as "love swim." The doctors began performing experimental treatments on the boy, experiments that seemed to cause him pain. The attendants would strap him to the bed anyway, and to stifle his screams of pain, they would smother him with pillows until he passed out. The boy experienced being immersed in water as sublime ecstasy, while the softness of the cotton sheets of his bed bore for him excruciating pain. Placed into an institution for his mental "affliction," the boy was treated cruelly by his attendants. Hating the emotionless sea (and Aquaman, who he saw as its representative), the boy was determined to become its master. Finally, he was forced to defend himself, killing one of his tormentors on the ship with a knife. At one point he apparently saw Aquaman with his dolphin friends and tried to signal him for help but was not seen. As a youth he was kidnapped and forced to work on a ship for an unspecified amount of time. The boy who would become Black Manta was an autistic youth who grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and loved to play by the sea.
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