Today on my Comixcology App, I was reading the old Justice League of America #21 and #22 "Crisis on Earth One" and "Crisis on Earth Two" and I noticed that Aquaman was called "The Sea King."

For me this was a good thing in my current work in progress I had a character I was going to name "The Sea King" but I guess I'll let Aquaman keep it and keep the folks at DC Comics happy. :)

While I've seen quite a few superhero television programs and movies, I didn't read many superhero comic books. My dad bought us three Disney Comic books when we were younger and hit a pawn shop and bought us a lot of old Looney Tunes comics from the 1950s and 60s, but he was rightly worried about the direction that superhero comic books had taken in the modern age. (He had no objection to Superheroes in other media as the first movie I remember him taking my younger brother and I to was Superman IV) My main exposure were a couple books I got from the library. Since I was a child, Marvel has started their Essentials and Masterworks collections and DC has offered numerous collections including "The Greatest Stories Ever Told," Superman and Batman collections of select comics from the 1940s to the 1980s, and their Archives collection. This makes a lot of great material available.

To me, these are useful for two reasons: First, because I use parody in my stories, this gives me some ideas for gags. Secondly, it's very helpful to see where superhero stories have been and what has worked in the past that still works today, and there's quite of fun in the best comic books of yesteryear and if you can provide that type of fun, you have something.