The Brave And The Bold

Information about The Brave And The Bold

For the Tortoise and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy album, see The Brave and the Bold (album).

The Brave and the Bold (vol. 2)

Cover of The Brave and the Bold vol. 2 #1
Art by George Pérez and Bob Wiacek.

	DC Comics
Schedule	Monthly
Publication dates	2007 - Current
Number of issues	7 (as of August '07)
Main character(s)	Rotates through the DCU

Creative team
Writer(s)	Mark Waid
Penciller(s)	George Pérez
Inker(s)	Bob Wiacek
Colorist(s)	Tom Smith

The Brave and the Bold is a DC Comics comic book, published from 1955 to 1983 and revived in 2007. The focus of the comic has varied over time but most commonly (and currently) features team-ups of characters from across the DC Universe.

Original volume

The first volume of the series ran for 200 issues from August 1955 to July 1983. Originally an anthology series featuring tales of adventure from past ages (Silent Knight, Viking Prince, Robin Hood), it was reinvented (beginning with #25) as a try-out title for new characters, and again (beginning with #50) as a venue for team-ups between established characters. Batman team-ups predominated, featuring in The Brave and the Bold #59, #64, #67-71, #74 and then every issue to the end of the run.[1] The final issue, #200, tied the title's Batman-team-up present with its new-character-introduction past with a story introducing the Batman-led superhero team the Outsiders.

Characters and teams that made their first appearances in The Brave and the Bold include:

the Silver Age Suicide Squad (#25)
the Justice League of America (#28)http://www.comictreadmill.com/CTMBlogarchives/2005/2005_Individual/2005_07/000859.php
Cave Carson (#31)
the Silver Age Hawkman (#34)
the Teen Titans (#54)
Metamorpho (#57)
Nemesis (#166)

Collections

In 2005 an archive edition, The Brave and the Bold Team-Ups Archive, was published containing the first 'team-up' issues. Other issues have appeared in the following collections:

Showcase Presents: Justice League of America vol 1. (#28-30)
Showcase Presents: Hawkman vol 1. (#34-36, #42-43)
Showcase Presents: Green Arrow vol 1. (#50)
Showcase Presents: Haunted Tank vol 1. (#52)
Showcase Presents: The Teen Titans vol 1. (#54, #60)
Showcase Presents: Metamorpho vol 1. (#57-58, #66, #68)
Showcase Presents: The Brave & The Bold - Batman Team-Ups vol 1. (#59, #64, #67, #69-71, #74-87)
Showcase Presents: Green Arrow vol 1. (#71, #85)

Awards

The series won Alley Awards in 1962 for Best Single Comic Book Cover (#42 by Joe Kubert), in 1965 for Best Comic Book Cover (#61 by Murphy Anderson), and in 1968 for Best Full-Length Story ("Track of the Hook" in #79 by Bob Haney and Neal Adams).

Later use of the title

In 1991-92, a six-issue miniseries titled The Brave and the Bold featured Green Arrow, the Question and the Butcher.
In 1999, a six-issue miniseries by Mark Waid titled Flash & Green Lantern: The Brave and the Bold featured the Silver Age versions of the Flash and Green Lantern.
The Brave and the Bold was a two-part episode of the first series of Justice League.

Current volume

A new volume of The Brave and the Bold began in April 2007 and is ongoing.

The first arc involved Batman and Green Lantern, Supergirl, Blue Beetle, Lobo, and the Legion of Super-Heroes working together to find the Book of Destiny, with Supergirl learning the entire team, with many side trips, is tasked with fixing The Book of Destiny, which was lost by Destiny and the Lords of Luck are using it to manipulate events so they can win. The characters succeed in locating "The Men Who Were Not There", the first-ever people to escape from the Book's predestined events, and their escape subsequently caused potentially-disastrous ripples all across reality.

Issues #7-8 are solo issue team-ups, with #7 featuring Wonder Woman & Power Girl and #8 with The Flash & the Doom Patrol. #9 will relate back to the first arc on The Book of Destiny, featuring the Metal Men, the Blackhawks, the Newsboy Legion, and a new Atom and Hawkman team.

Alternate vesions

In Amalgam Comics, the Brave and the Bold is combined with Astonishing X-Men to form the Astonishing and the Bold.

External links

Index and Cover Gallery of the original Brave and the Bold

The Brave and the Bold
(2006) The Letting Go
(2006)

Tortoise chronology

It's All Around You
(2004) The Brave and the Bold
(2006)

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George Pérez

Born May 9 1954 (age 53)
New York City, New York

Nationality American
Area(s) Penciller, Inker, Writer

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DC Comics

Subsidiary of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.
Founded 1934, by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson (as National Allied Publications)
Headquarters 1700 Broadway, New York City, New York

Key people Paul Levitz (President and Publisher)
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DC Universe (DCU) is the fictional shared universe where most of the comic stories published by DC Comics take place. The fictional characters Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman are well-known superheroes from this universe.
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Mark Waid

Born March 21 1962 (age 45)
Hueytown, Alabama

Nationality American
Area(s) Writer, Editor

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George Pérez

Born May 9 1954 (age 53)
New York City, New York

Nationality American
Area(s) Penciller, Inker, Writer

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Tom Smith is a colorist who has worked in the comics industry.

Born in the wilds of the swamps of Spotswood, New Jersey, Tom Smith, like most people in the comics business, fell in love with comics at a young age.
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A comic book is a magazine or book containing sequential art in the form of a narrative. Comic books are often called comics for short. Although the term implies otherwise, the subject matter in comic books is not necessarily humorous, and in fact it is often serious and
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The Silent Knight was a medieval-set comic book series that was published by DC Comics. The series first appeared in the comic book The Brave and the Bold #1 in 1955 and appeared in every issue until #22.
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Viking Prince is a DC Comics comic which featured in the comic book The Brave and the Bold. It was a historic adventure story about a Viking named Jon. The story was written by Robert Kanigher and drawn by Joe Kubert.
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Robin Hood is a figure in archetypal English folk tales. Many accounts of Robin Hood, though not the very earliest, bear a striking similarity to accounts of the life of Fulk FitzWarin, a Norman noble who was disinherited and became an outlaw and an enemy of John of England.
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The Outsiders are fictional characters, a DC Comics superhero group. As its name suggests, the group consists of superheroes who do not fit the norms of the mainstream superhero community, namely the Justice League.
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In comic books, first appearance refers to the first comic book to feature a fictional character.

Monetary value of first appearance issues

First appearances of popular characters are among the most valuable comic books in existence.
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Silver Age of Comic Books was a period of artistic advancement and commercial success in mainstream American comic books, predominantly in the superhero genre, that lasted roughly from the late 1950s/early 1960s to the early 1970s. It was preceded by the Golden Age of Comic Books.
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Suicide Squad is a name for a number of fictional organizations created for and owned by DC Comics. The first version debuted in The Brave and the Bold #25 (1959), the second in Legends
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Justice League, sometimes called the Justice League of America or JLA for short, is a fictional DC Universe superhero team.

First appearing in The Brave and the Bold
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Cave Carson (real name Calvin Carson) is a fictional character that appeared in stories published by DC Comics. Carson, a spelunker, first appeared in Brave and the Bold #31 (September 1960), he was created by France Herron and Bruno Premiani.
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First appearance

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Dennis Neville

Characters
See also

For other meanings of the term, see Hawkman (disambiguation)

Hawkman
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Schedule Monthly
Format Ongoing
Publication dates (vol. 1): 1966 - 1976
(vol. 2): 1996 - 1998
(vol. 3): 2003 -
Number of issues (vol. 1): 53
(vol. 2): 24
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Metamorpho (real name Rex Mason) is a fictional character, a superhero appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. A founding member of the Outsiders, he has also been a member of the Justice League Europe and the Justice League of America.
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Nemesis is the name of two fictional characters in the DC Comics universe. Tom Tresser first appeared in The Brave and the Bold #166, (September 1980), and was created by Cary Burkett and Dan Spiegle.
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DC Archive Editions, edited by Dale Crain for DC Comics, collect early, sometimes rare, comic books published by DC and other publishers into a permanent hardcover series. With more than 100 titles, this series began in 1989 with Superman Archives, Volume One.
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Showcase Presents is a line of black and white paperback books published by DC Comics. Created as DC's version of Essential Marvel Comics, each book includes 500+ pages of reprints, usually from the Silver Age.
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The Alley Awards are comic book awards originally sponsored by Alter-Ego magazine, edited by Jerry Bails, Roy Thomas, Ronn Foss, and, in 1978, Mike Friedrich. The name is at least partially derived from that of the comic strip character Alley Oop, in whose likeness that
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Joe Kubert

Born September 18 1926 (age 81)
Poland

Nationality Naturalized American
(immigrated Polish)
Area(s)
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Murphy Anderson

Born 1926

Nationality American
Area(s) Penciller, Inker

Notable works Superman

Awards Alley Award

Best Inker (1962)
Artist Preferred on Justice League of America (1963)

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Bob Haney

Birth name Robert Haney
Born 1926
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died November 25 2004

Nationality American
Area(s) Writer

Notable works Teen Titans

Awards Alley Award