THE BRAVE & THE BOLD VOL. 1 #8

COVER TAGLINE: None COVER DATE: Oct/Nov, 1956 PRICE: $.10 U.S. EDITOR(s): Robert Kanigher COVER: Irv Novick TITLE: Challenge of the Grim Jester WRITER: Bill Finger ARTIST: Russ Heath INKER: Russ Heath CHARACTERS: Robin Hood PLOT: N/A If you have a plot synopsis for this issue, please drop us a line and let us know! Click Here to Contact Us!

TITLE: The Outcast Viking WRITER: Robert Kanigher ARTIST: Joe Kubert INKER: Joe Kubert CHARACTERS: Viking Prince; Captain Olaf PLOT: Baldur, a respected seer, predicts doom for Olaf’s tribe if Jon stays with them. Jon chooses exile and leaves the village. Before he can travel far, a volcanic explosion rocks the area. The fiery disaster frees a group of mammoths trapped inside a glacier. The beasts threaten the village. Jon returns to lead the mammoths across an ice field away from the village. The beasts break through the ice into the water below, and the village is saved. Jon is welcomed back, while Baldur the seer flees.

TITLE: The Secret of the Arabian Horse WRITER: Robert Kanigher ARTIST: Irv Novick INKER: Irv Novick CHARACTERS: Silent Knight; Slasher PLOT: Sir Oswald gives Brian Kent an arabian horse named Tana to train. Tana soon bonds with Brian and will approach only him. Later, while riding in Forest Perilous, Brian dons the armor of the Silent Knight in order to rescue Lady Celia who has been taken captive. Celia is blindfolded and does not see that the Silent Knight is riding Tana. After the rescue, Brian pretends to put Celia on another horse while keeping her blindfolded to protect his secret. Shortly thereafter, the Silent Knight is captured by Sir Oswald's men. When he is brought to the castle Tana approaches. Brian fears that the horse will give away his secret, but instead the horse approaches Celia. The Silent Knight then escapes. When he returns to the castle as Brian he learns that Tana was holding sugar cubes which lured the horse to her instead of the Silent Knight.