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Issue Details

Issue #23
Published April-May 1959
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Robert Kanigher
Notes Kubert's cover credits from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided to the GCD by DC Comics (27 January 2008)

Cover Details - "untitled"

Characters Viking Prince; Princess Asa
Genre period
Pencils Joe Kubert
Inks Joe Kubert; Jack Adler (wash)
Notes Kubert's cover credits from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided to the GCD by DC Comics (27 January 2008)

5 page Viking Prince story "Origin of the Viking Prince! Part 1"

Characters Viking Prince (origin); King Rikk, the Storm Cloud; Odin; Princess Asa; The Mute Bard; Torgo the Dragon King (villain)
Synopsis Origin of the Viking Prince.
Genre Period
Script Bob Haney
Pencils Joe Kubert
Inks Joe Kubert
Reprinted in Brave and the Bold, The (DC, 1955 series) #115 (October-November 1974)

Half page advertisement "Tootsie Roll ad"

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "The Flash #106"

1 page public service announcement "What's Your B.Q.*? (*Brotherhood Quotient)"

Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Bernard Baily
Inks Bernard Baily
Letters Ira Schnapp

6 page Viking Prince story "Origin of the Viking Prince! Part 2"

Characters Viking Prince (origin); King Rikk, the Storm Cloud; Princess Asa; Torgo the Dragon King (villain)
Genre Period
Script Bob Haney
Pencils Joe Kubert
Inks Joe Kubert
Reprinted in Brave and the Bold, The (DC, 1955 series) #115 (October-November 1974)

Half page advertisement "Tootsie Roll Pop ad"

2 page filler "Famous Sailing Ships Throughout the World"

Letters /

1 page text story "Knight's Castle"

Letters typeset

11 page Viking Prince story "The Figurehead of the Burning Sea!"

Characters Viking Prince; Princess Asa; King Harold; Jarl Eric the Axe (villain)
Synopsis While at her father's castle with Prince Jon, Asa vanishes into thin air. Jarl Eric, brother of the Dragon King, has imprisoned her spirit in a wooden figurehead, so Jon sets off to rescue her.
Genre Period
Script Bob Haney
Pencils Joe Kubert
Inks Joe Kubert
Reprinted in Brave and the Bold, The (DC, 1955 series) #113 (June-July 1974)

Half page advertisement "Tootsie Roll Fudge ad"