Dates
- Cover date
- May-June 1971
- On sale
- March 2, 1971
- Pages
- 68
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Battle for the Dragon Ship! · 9 pages
A blond Viking is pulled from the water, but has no memory of his past. Gunnda names him "Jon, the Shining, [after] the great Viking Prince of old!" But a spy knows him and reports to Baron Thorvald that "the youth" still lives. The spy threatens Jon's hosts, but gets a surprise as he fights with fish net, sword, and anything handy. Baron Thorvald comes in a dragon ship to capture him. The Viking Prince has himself shot from a catapult to tear the dragon ship sail. He brawls with Vikings as Thorvald jumps overboard. Together they will fight tyranny, as Jon seeks his lost identity.
- The Ice Dragon! · 7.67 pages
- The Viking and the Mermaid! · 13 pages
Accompanied by a mute bard, an amnesiac Jon journeys to find his lost identity. He must complete the Twelve Tasks of Thor mandated by the evil Torgunn the Claw to win back his throne... He defeats a giant (man) in combat, captures fire in an ice demon's helmet, and rescues a mermaid (captive woman) from a chest beneath the sea. More tasks to come...
- Duel in Forest Perilous! · 8 pages
Sir Edwin Kent dies in a joust because Sir Oswald Bane sabotaged his lance. His son Brian, an orphan, cannot take the throne until he's a knight. Tough Sir Grot trains the boy relentlessly, but no one can handle the hawk Slasher. Squire Brian chases the hawk into the Forest Perilous and finds a suit of armor with a hawk emblem. He dons it just as knights try to seize a girl. Keeping silent lest he's exposed (as a mere squire, not a knight), he drives them off with Slasher's help. He leaves the suit hanging and finds everyone in the castle talks about the mysterious Silent Knight!
- The Thunder of the Chariots! · 8 pages
Marcus, a young shepherd, is grabbed and falsely accused of attacking a Praetor by the conniving soldier Cinna. Sentenced to a slave galley for life, Marcus becomes a muscled giant. He saves the crew from a loose lion by slinging his chain. He's sold to Cinna and handed to the gladiators and trained. He beats down hated rivals and rides a bull, despite sabotaged weapons from Cinna. He even wins the chariot race with only a shield. He's given the golden helmet and breastplate of the Golden Gladiator - but Cinna plots revenge.
- Three Arrows against Doom! · 8 pages
In town, an elder auctions off three splintered arrows for charity. Robin Hood used them to best the Sheriff, but Prince John demands the story because "Robin Hood is dead". Flashbacks show how Robin loosed a dam spillway onto attackers, stopped up a chimney, and crossed a "moat" of wild boars. How can it be true? Because the "elder" is Robin in disguise, as he vanishes into the trees laughing!