Arthur Curry, aka Aquaman, originally debuted in 1941 as part of More Fun Comics #73 from creators Mort Weisinger and Paul Norris. While Aquaman’s origin has been tweaked throughout the years, the basics of it are that Curry was the result of a romance between a lighthouse keeper and a denizen of Atlantis named Atlanna.

The best-known version of Aquaman, developed in the “Silver Age” of comic books in the 1950s and ’60s, is the son of a lighthouse keeper and an Atlantean outcast. In 1964 he became one of the first superheroes to get married when he wed the undersea queen Mera.

In the very earliest comics, Aquaman was the son of a famous but unnamed underwater explorer who gave him the ability to breathe underwater and speak to marine life through the secret wisdom of the abandoned kingdom. By 1959, Aquaman was reimagined as the son of a human father and an Atlantean mother and was eventually named the king of Atlantis.

In 1985 Maine, lighthouse keeper Thomas Curry rescues Atlanna, queen of the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, during a storm. They fall in love and have a son named Arthur, who has the power to communicate with sea creatures.

Adventure Comics #260 established that Aquaman was the son of a lighthouse keeper named Tom Curry and a mysterious woman who came from the sea named Atlanna. On her deathbed, Atlanna revealed herself as an exile from Atlantis, and that their son Arthur had inherited her aquatic powers.