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This Sunday, comics legend Nick Cardy passed away at the age of 93. While that may not mean a whole lot, it's a loss to the comics community, especially to fans of the DC Universe's Silver Age. It Was Cardy who helmed the first 39 issues of Aquaman's first solo title (taking the reins from Ramona Fradon, who'd done Orin's backup series in Adventure Comics) and even did the covers into the early 1970s. It was also Cardy who co-created the Teen Titans in an issue of the Brave and the Bold, pencilling the title for many years, and becoming as synonymous with it as Marv Wolfman and George Perez would in the 1980s (he appears in a cameo in one episode of the Cartoon Network show, alongside Wolfman and Perez).

I had the distinct pleasure of meeting Cardy once in 2008 at Megacon, and asked him about any involvement with the various properties based on the works he'd done or created. He seemed pleasantly bemused by it, but sadly confirmed that he had little to do with what Hollywood was doing.

The Silver Age was such a corny time for DC Comics, but also saw an explosion in titles that would become as legendary as the Golden Age. Cardy, along with Jim Aparo, Arnold Drake, Carmine Infantino, and many others hustled in an era that remains so iconic alongside that corniness that Cartoon Network and Warner Bros. Animation paid delicious tribute to with the Batman: Brave and the Bold cartoon.

As far as the figure goes: I've never used Aquaman for much. Not that I hate the character, mind you: I don't have his most known adversary Black Manta and until this picture had no way of making reference to his most known ability, which is breathing underwater (granted he does a helluva lot more than this, but for this period in his career-orange shirt, green pants-it made the most sense).

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This Sunday, comics legend Nick Cardy passed away at the age of 93. While that may not mean a whole lot, it's a loss to the comics community, especially to fans of the DC Universe's Silver Age. It Was Cardy who helmed the first 39 issues of Aquaman's first solo title (taking the reins from Ramona Fradon, who'd done Orin's backup series in Adventure Comics) and even did the covers into the early 1970s. It was also Cardy who co-created the Teen Titans in an issue of the Brave and the Bold, pencilling the title for many years, and becoming as synonymous with it as Marv Wolfman and George Perez would in the 1980s (he appears in a cameo in one episode of the Cartoon Network show, alongside Wolfman and Perez).

I had the distinct pleasure of meeting Cardy once in 2008 at Megacon, and asked him about any involvement with the various properties based on the works he'd done or created. He seemed pleasantly bemused by it, but sadly confirmed that he had little to do with what Hollywood was doing.

The Silver Age was such a corny time for DC Comics, but also saw an explosion in titles that would become as legendary as the Golden Age. Cardy, along with Jim Aparo, Arnold Drake, Carmine Infantino, and many others hustled in an era that remains so iconic alongside that corniness that Cartoon Network and Warner Bros. Animation paid delicious tribute to with the Batman: Brave and the Bold cartoon.

As far as the figure goes: I've never used Aquaman for much. Not that I hate the character, mind you: I don't have his most known adversary Black Manta and until this picture had no way of making reference to his most known ability, which is breathing underwater (granted he does a helluva lot more than this, but for this period in his career-orange shirt, green pants-it made the most sense).