Trivia / Aquaman (1994)

• Creator Backlash: Peter David sees his run as an ambitious failure and reflects that one of his few successes were the sharks.
• Executive Meddling: Peter David cited several contradictory editorial mandates from his time working on the comic, such as having Aquaman be a loner but also a leader of the people, and having stories set in Atlantis but Aquaman wasn't allowed to be in Atlantis. Eventually he got fed up and quit.
• What Could Have Been: Peter David had planned to have a longer run on the comic than he did. Potential ideas included Dolphin and Arthur marrying, Arthur and Mera remarrying and ruling over the other dimension, Poseidon adopting Arthur as a son, expanding on Arthur's connection with The Clear to make him an elemental like Swamp Thing, having him dead for more than one issue, having a Dante's Inferno-style journey down to the Devil's Deep, and bringing back a time-displaced 'classic' Aquaman.

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