He and the rest of the Titans are severely injured after being attacked by the children of Trigon on a routine training exercise. Over a year after Young Justice disbands, Lagoon Boy is recruited alongside several other obscure teenaged heroes as part of a Teen Titans spin-off team known as the Titans East. Lagoon Boy is one of the few survivors after Spectre squashes the city. He is shown fighting the Spectre alongside many Atlanteans and their allies. Lagoon Boy was briefly shown in Infinite Crisis when The Spectre wreaks havoc on the people of Atlantis. Robin and Lagoon Boy team up to stop a sea monster from damaging Gotham Harbor and force its return to the sea. Lagoon Boy later displays the ability to command, or at least enlist the aid of, humpback whales in order to cause a riptide on the shores of the rogue nation of Zandia, aiding Young Justice in the process. He helps Young Justice against Klarion the Witchboy and Black Manta, and he assists the JSA, JLA and the Titans in ending the wild mixture of science and magic which had been causing the transformations. Lagoon Boy reappears in Young Justice: Sins of Youth, where he is aged to adulthood. In the story, the male members of Young Justice ( Superboy, Robin and Impulse), head for Gotham City and meet Lagoon Boy. Lagoon Boy was used shortly before the end of Larsen's run by writer Chuck Dixon, who wrote the Young Justice Special #1 ( No Man's Land) story. Aquaman rescues the Land-Lovers from persecution and sends them back to Atlantis.Īfter Erik Larsen's run on Aquaman ended, the Land-Lovers did not reappear in the title. Their appearance creates a huge disturbance and the Coast Guard is quickly called. Blubber creates a device which allows Atlanteans to view television from the surface world, and the trio head up to the surface world in order to explore and compare it to the television broadcasts they had seen. Aquaman #54 reveals that the three characters have begun calling themselves 'The Land-Lovers' as they were underwater creatures who were fascinated with the world over water.

While there he befriends Blubber, a humanoid whale with a genius IQ, and his assistant Sheeva the Mermaid. Lagoon Boy comes to the citizenship ceremony on the day of Aquaman and Queen Mera's marriage. His presence is met with protests by many elitist Atlanteans.

In his first appearance, he is allowed into Atlantis as part of an attempt by Aquaman to make Atlantis more open to those living outside the city by granting them citizenship. No writer has yet provided an origin story for Lagoon Boy. 5 #50 (December 1998) and was created by Erik Larsen.

Lagoon Boy first appeared in Aquaman vol. His name and appearance are references to the title character from the classic horror feature film Creature from the Black Lagoon. Lagoon Boy is a fictional superhero published by DC Comics. Create, manipulate and mold water into any shape or form.Psionic/Mental control over sea creatures telepathic and empathic.Lagoon Boy (bottom right), alongside the Titans East.

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