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Born to Atlanna (Queen of
Poseidonis) and Atlan (a long-lived warrior-mage), a young child was born with blond hair.
Blond hair in a member of the royal family was believed to be a mark of the Curse of
Kordax, an ancient evil wizard. Abandoned on a coral reef by his mothers husband,
who knew the child was not his, this young child did not die, for the curse had given him
the ability to breathe air as well as water. He also gained the ability to communicate
with sea creature. It was this ability that save the young infant, as a mother dolphin
heard his cries and adopted him into her family. He grew into his teens with the dolphins
and was eventually told that he was a human. Isolating himself and becoming more and more
the loner, the boy left the dolphins that raised him. He began to watch humans, eventually
following a ship to a lighthouse. It was here he met the a solitary lighthouse keeper
named Arthur Curry, who all but adopted the young man, teaching him English and about the
surface world. The young man took up the name Arthur Jr in honor of his father and lived
with him for a few years. He left Arthur Curry to find his dolphin family and returned to
the lighthouse to find it destroyed. Angry at the surface world that killed his father and
feeling lonlier than ever, Arthur spent the next few years in solotude, swimming the
waves. Arthur eventually came upon a domed city where he was captured and imprisoned. It
was there, as a slave in the salt mines, where Arthur met a scientist named Vulko who
spoke English and taught Arthur the language and customsof the Atlanteans. Arthur later
escaped the prison and fled the domed city, deciding that the people who lived under the
seas were no better than the surface dwellers. Arthur spent another few years in solitude,
living with the animals and acting as their guardian. He became a legend among the
fisherman whose nets he destroyed. It was then that Arthur met another air-breather, who
like his adopted father, would change his life: Barry Allen, the second Flash. After
helping the Flash to stop a criminal, he was dubbed Aquaman by the media. He then became a
founder of the first incarnation of the JLA.
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