And while Earth-One's Man of Tomorrow had that situation to face, his counterpart of Earth-Two had quite a different one. Journeying to the Atlantis city of Venturia, Earth-Two's Clark Kent and Lois Lane encountered Queen Octavia Paralea, who quickly became enamored with Kent. However, this romance was doomed to failure even sooner than had the one between Clark and Lori.
She has previously encountered and fought alongside Wonder Woman a few years earlier. When Superman appeared to repel attempts at hijacking control of the city-state by court official Hajar, it was as Clark whom the Queen fell in love with! Clark actually accepts Paralea's wedding proposal, though did this to draw out Hajar and other co-conspirators to the throne. Superman defeated these usurpers. This encounter resulted in the Queen recognizing dangers of royalty are to much for her "gentle" Clark, who fell into the reluctant arms of Lois. 
And on Earth-Two, prior to meeting Paralea, Superman encountered a princess from a different realm of Atlanta, the mermaid Kuella. She sought help from the surface world to prevent the invasion of the evil Akhtar from her undersea city. While Superman defeated Akhtar and his forces, the evil warlord detonated the Atlantis outpost which also claimed the life of Kuella.
It seems that these marine maidens didn't have much if any contact with the Kings of the Sea, the Aquamen, of either Earth.
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