She seemed a lot sassier and autonomous in the stories I (admittedly vaguely) remember from her early Aquaman appearances. This strip didn't actually sell Garth and Tula as a viable crime-fighting duo, not the way SHE was treated, and that's too bad. Atlanteans must hate it when Don McLean only plays American Pie in the encore (like everyone else, I suppose).

In the epilogue we find out the band hadn't even played their hit song by the time they were rudely interrupted. You'd think a Titan could get a glass of water in this seaside town, but that would have robbed us of the desperate moment where our heroes collapse on the beach and are saved by the tide coming in. How you could have heard of them: Young Justice features a very different Aqualad (a cross between Garth as both Aqualad and Tempest and the more recent Aqualad who is the son of Black Manta), and Tula also appears occasionally, modeled more closely on the Nick Cardy original.Įxample story: Teen Titans #30 (Nov-Dec 1970) by Steve Skeates, Carmine Infantino and Nick Cardy She was killed in the Crisis on Infinite Earths. As for Aquagirl, Tula first appeared in Aquaman #33 (May–June 1967) and became a recurring character in that strip as a love interest for Garth, carrying over into Teen Titans exactly once. As for his Titans career, it ended when Marv Wolfman showed no interest in using him in New Teen Titans (give or take a handful of appearances), but he did appear regularly in the book up through the '70s. Like many of the sidekicks he's had a rocky relationship with his adult partner, changed his name when he grew up (to Tempest), etc. The facts: Aquaman's sidekick Garth debuted in Adventure Comics #269 (Feb 1960) was made a founding member of the Teen Titans, teaming up with Robin and Kid-Flash in The Brave and the Bold #54 (July 1964), and appeared in the Filmation Aquaman cartoon.

Aqua lad and aqua boy