COVER TAGLINE:
None
COVER DATE: Dec/Jan, 1957
PRICE: $.10 U.S.
EDITOR(s):
Robert Kanigher
COVER:
Irv Novick
TITLE:
The Bow That Couldn't Be Bent
WRITER:
Bob Haney
ARTIST:
Russ Heath
INKER:
Russ Heath
CHARACTERS:
Robin Hood
PLOT:
N/A
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TITLE:
The Viking Genie
WRITER:
Bill Finger
ARTIST:
Joe Kubert
INKER:
Joe Kubert
CHARACTERS:
Viking Prince; Captain Olaf
PLOT:
The Viking Prince is attacked by Baron Thorvald and his men. Jon is overcome and placed in a cask. The cask is then thrown in the ocean.
Jon eventually washes up on the shores in Arabia. A sultan releases him and believes that Jon is a genie. He asks Jon to grant three wishes. The thankful viking agrees.
Jon battles the evil sheik El Kazim and retrieves three legendary items, a shield, a helm, and a sword. After completing the three tasks and forcing El Kazim to flee the area, Jon returns home in a boat.
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TITLE:
The Three Flaming Dooms
WRITER:
Robert Kanigher
ARTIST:
Irv Novick
INKER:
Irv Novick
CHARACTERS:
Silent Knight; Lady Celia
PLOT:
Sir Oswald challenges the Silent Knight to face three dooms in Forest Perilous. To maintain his reputation and honor, the Silent Knight is forced to patrol the forest until he finds the challenges. He overcomes the first two challenges, but does not find the third. He then returns to the castle as Brian Kent.
When he returns, Sir Oswald claims that only Brian was in the forest, so he must be the Silent Knight. This is the third doom, a threat to his secret identity. As Brian stands accused, two arrows that were used as markers for the first two dooms are shot over the wall into the castle. Everyone believes that the Silent Knight must have returned them, so Brian his secret identity. Brian set the arrows to fire on a delay, which is how the feat was accomplished to make it appear he was in two places at once.
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