The Brave and the Bold, #22
Published: February-March 1959
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Characters
Credits
- Pencils: Joe Kubert
- Inks: Joe Kubert
- Colors: Jack Adler
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
We'll Ripple Your Body with Muscles and Load T-N-T in Your Fists
Featuring The National Sports Council
Storyline
Body-building ad.
Characters
- Joe Louis
Story Notes
Inside front cover.
The Invisible Viking!
Storyline
Toiling at the Twelve Tasks of Thor, Jon is shipwrecked. He awakens tied down, Gulliver-like, by tiny people. Tiny Freya trusts him, and cuts him free when raiders attack. He drives them off, and offers to fight for their homeland. They ask he enter a cave to be shrunk by vapors. He shrinks and saves Freya from a spider. Even tiny, he shows the people how to rescue the Mute Bard from a giant squid, then infiltrate a raider ship and drive off the villains. The vapors wear off and he regains his size, says goodbye, and sails off.
Characters
- Viking Prince
- Freya (tiny woman, not the goddess)
- Gunda / Gunnda (imagined)
Credits
- Script: Bill Finger
- Pencils: Joe Kubert
- Inks: Joe Kubert
- Letters: Gaspar Saladino
Story Notes
The title is "The Invisible Viking!", but in fact Jon is shrunken.
"Said a daring young ski-champ named Andy..."
Just One Second!
Featuring DC Comics
Storyline
House ad for The FLash #105, on sale December 23.
Characters
- Barry Allen (mainstream Universe)
- The Flash (mainstream Universe)
- Mirror Master
- Sam Scudder
Credits
- Pencils: Carmine Infantino
- Inks: Joe Giella
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Indian Armor!
Storyline
How Indians made armor for protection in battle.
Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912
Storyline
List of publisher, owners, managing editor, and editor of The Brave and the Bold.
Credits
- Script: Rob Ten Pas
Story Notes
No circulation figures are given.
Challenge of the Sinister Queens!
Storyline
On a fateful mission, the SK rides a perilous bridge with Lady Celia as his squire. They're attacked by bird-men and pitch off the bridge. The SK uses his cape to float and reflects how they got here... Frost, flood, earthquakes plague the land. King Arthur and Merlin are challenged by the Three Queens of Dread - Kranda, Xlla, and Larique - who quarrel as to who should be Queen of Dread. The SK must accept three challenges. A failure is a win for the queen. His squire will be whoever first touches his helmet - and it's Lady Celia!
Characters
- Silent Knight
- Lady Celia
- King Arthur
- Merlin
- Kranda
- Xlla
- Larique
Credits
- Script: Robert Kanigher
- Pencils: Russ Heath
- Inks: Russ Heath
- Letters: Gaspar Saladino
Story Notes
Part 1 of story.
"There was a hoop whirler named Wynn..."
Story Notes
Appears at the bottom of page 8 of the Silent Knight story.
The Barbarians
Storyline
Article about the Moslem invasion of the Roman Empire.
Credits
- Script: Jack Miller
The Magic Card!
Storyline
The value of a library card.
Credits
- Script: Jack Schiff
- Pencils: Bernard Baily
- Inks: Bernard Baily
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
[Challenge of the Sinister Queens!] Part Two
Storyline
SK and Lady Celia plop on a flying griffin and tame it, and fly to Camelot. First task done. Second is to battle the Knights of the Clock at a high castle. They fly and battle, but the SK falls. Celia jumps to protect him, and the SK rallies. Second task complete. Third task: a trick! The SK must sword-fight Queen Kranda. He can't attack a woman, and stumbles. But Celia's scarf atop his helmet tangles her sword, and he wins! The Queens depart, the sun returns. And Lady Celia promises to wait until the SK can remove his helmet and reveal his secret identity.
Characters
- Silent Knight
- Lady Celia
Credits
- Script: Robert Kanigher
- Pencils: Russ Heath
- Inks: Russ Heath
Story Notes
1) Part 2 of story. 2) Last appearance of the Silent Knight in The Brave and the Bold. He appeared occasionally in later DC stories. 3) The Silent Knight was ret-conned to be Brian KENT, a distant ancestor of Clark Kent. And he was ret-conned as one incarnation of Hawkman because of his hawk emblem. Thus Superman and Hawkman share a common ancestor.
"A Captain came in on the tide..."
"A jasper gem was once worn by Italian farmers..."
Storyline
Some facts about the jasper, the emerald, the star ruby and the beryl.
Credits
- Script: Julius Schwartz
- Pencils: Morris Waldinger
- Inks: John Sherwood
Now!...Start Collecting Stamps This New Club Way!
Featuring Lotta-Stamps-a-Month Club
Story Notes
Ad for a stamp collecting club.
Do You Want Spending Money?
Story Notes
Ad to recruit salespeople to sell plaques with religious and sentimental mottoes. Inside back cover.
150 Civil War Soldiers!
Story Notes
Ad for plastic toy soldiers shipped in a gun box. Sold by Josely Co. Back cover.