Dates
- Cover date
- October-November 1955
- On sale
- August 7, 1955
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Sword of Attila! · 8 pages
The crafty Cinna sends Marcus on a suicide mission: to seize the sword of Attila the Hun who threatens Rome! Cinna's niece Lucia dresses as a soldier and joins him. Marcus dodges catapult fireballs but is captured. Vaulting atop Attila's giant victory drum, he fights with his iron armband to break and steal the Hun's sword - as Lucia arrives with getaway horses! Both are rewarded by the Emperor of Rome, but Cinna scowls.
- The Threat of the Phantom Vikings! · 8 pages
Jon, the amnesiac Viking Prince, trains villagers how to fight as an abandoned ship drifts into the bay. Jon investigates and is attacked by a shark! That night flames light up the village as the phantom ship drifts back. Jon finds the hold is packed with sharks and trap doors. His arch-enemy Thorvald attacks, but Jon mounts the dragon figurehead and leaps into battle. He bests Thorvald - but it's an impostor in a mask! Why does Thorvald seek Jon's destruction?
- Laughing Arena · 1 pages
More Roman arena humor as a man battles a lion.
- The Wall around the Island · 2 pages
Short article about Roman siege weapons.
- Knights of the Square Table · 0.5 pages
- Knight for a Day! · 7.67 pages
Brian rescues a lady (seen in the previous story) as she falls in the moat of savage fish. Sir Bane departs, but sends a message that Brian must bring the Sun Ruby to a castle across the Forest Perilous. Brian is waylaid by brigands, but the hawk Slasher drives them off - and leads Brian to the secret grove where hangs the uniform of the Silent Knight. Dressed, Brian battles thugs across a bridge and even underwater, drops off the armor, and arrives at the castle, mission accomplished.
Characters
Reprinted in
The Brave and the Bold (1956), The Best of the Brave and the Bold (1988), The Hundred Comic (1961), Superman Presents Wonder Comic Monthly (1965), The Viking Prince (2010)