Aquaman identified Black Manta as the same pirate from the submarine, which Black Manta confirmed. Black Manta attacked Aquaman while the soldiers chased Mera. Once the battle suit was completed, he painted it black and dubbed himself "Black Manta" in honor of his late father and family legacy.īlack Manta, along with Murk and the Atlantean soldiers, ambushed Aquaman and Mera in Sicily, Italy. David made the helmet significantly bigger to circumvent the problem. In particular, David took a plasma beam cannon and installed it into his helmet, however, the helmet was melted during a test firing of the plasma beam. Orm informed David that human weaponry would be useless against Aquaman and provided him with Atlantean weaponry and was given multiple soldiers so he could launch an attack against Aquaman.įile:Aquaman - Black Manta works on technology (2).pngĭavid took the Atlantean weaponry and merged it with his diving suit, making it a specialized battle armor to fight Aquaman. Still hellbent on getting revenge on Aquaman, David allied with the Atlantean king.įile:Aquaman - Black Manta with mercs (1).png David demanded that Aquaman should be killed, as he was responsible for Jesse's death, but Orm shrugged it off and assured David that Aquaman wasn't one of them. Sometime after his father's death, David was contacted by King Orm Marius, who paid him for the staged attack his crew launched on Nereus. Conflict with Aquaman File:Aquaman - Black Manta with mercs (11).png David was forced to flee and started to bear a deep grudge against Aquaman. David tried to save his father, but his father committed suicide by using a hand grenade. David begged Aquaman for help but was told that they kill innocents and should not expect mercy from the ocean. David proclaimed that he expected to eventually face the Aquaman but was quickly defeated by the Atlantean and easily subdued after a brief fight.įile:Black Manta- You can’t leave him like this!.jpegĪquaman deflected a rocket from Jesse, that caused a torpedo to topple over him, trapping him as the submarine became flooded. Suddenly, they were interrupted by Arthur Curry, known as Aquaman. Initially, he scoffed at it, calling it a piece of junk, and the love of " life" but when Jesse told him about how it belonged to his grandfather, who fought in World War II as one of the Navy's first "frogmen" (code-named "Manta" for his stealthiness), he immediately changed his mind, and accepted the blade. Their gang took over a submarine, and as they were celebrating their apparent victory, Jesse presented him with a special knife.įile:Jesse presents the knife to David.png David Kane was a pirate like his father, Jesse Kane, and at some point in time, he learned about Aquaman and wanted to encounter him.
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