Cover pencils by Joe St. Pierre, inks by Howard M Shum. Dreaded Deadline Doom, script by Peter David, pencils by Joe St. Pierre, inks by Howard M Shum and Rodney Ramos; Deadline is hired to kill Aquaman by King Thesily, Aquaman returns to a shaken and crooked Atlantis, Letifos mourns by Aqualad's skeleton, Aquaman goes to S.T.A.R. labs to get a new hook. Aqualad washes up, alive, on a strange shore.