The Brave and the Bold #61

(August-September 1965)

Summer at Home Can Be Fun! (Table of Contents: 1)

public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Script

Jack Schiff

Pencils

Sheldon Moldoff

Inks

Sheldon Moldoff

Letters

Ira Schnapp

Genre

advocacy

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover. Sequence added by Jan Roar Hansen.

Mastermind of Menaces! (Table of Contents: 2)

Black Canary; Starman / comic story / 23 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (signed as Gardner Fox) (sourced)

Pencils

Murphy Anderson (signed) (sourced)

Inks

Murphy Anderson (signed) (sourced)

Colors

?

Letters

Gaspar Saladino

Genre

superhero

Characters

Starman [Ted Knight]; Black Canary [Dinah Drake]; Larry Lance; Alan Moreland; Freeda Van Taller; Mr. Burton; The Mist [Kyle Nimbus] (villain)

Synopsis

The villainous Mist returns to his life of crime by using flowers from Dinah Drake's floral shop to hypnotically induce wealthy people into parting with large sums of money, and when Starman gets involved in the case, the Mist figures out a way to nullify his famed Gravity Rod.

Reprints

• in Historias Fantásticas (Editorial Novaro, 1958 series) #147 (1 de marzo de 1966)
• in Eclipso (Arédit-Artima, 1968 series) #7 (octobre 1969) [N&B [B&W]]
• in Justice League of America (DC, 1960 series) #116 (March-April 1975)
• in Gigant (Semic, 1976 series) #4/1979 ([11 juli] 1979)
• in Gigant (Semic, 1977 series) #4/1979 ([august] 1979)
• in Black Canary Archives (DC, 2001 series) #1 ([March] 2001)
• in Crisis on Multiple Earths: The Team-Ups (DC, 2005 series) #1 (2005 [February 2006])
• in The Black Canary: Bird of Prey (DC, 2021 series) ([May] 2021)

Indexer Notes

Revival of Starman & Black Canary, with origin recaps for both.

Story in three parts of 7.67, 9.67, and 5.67 pages.

Flight of the P-26 (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Wen-Mac Gas-Powered Models / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Tootsie [all other candies] / advertisement / 0.33 page (report information)

How to Build Prrrrfect Models (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

AMT Models / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

Palisades Amusement Park Admission / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

The Origin of Starman (Table of Contents: 7)

Starman / text article / 1 page (report information)

Script

Julius Schwartz

Pencils

Jack Burnley (cover repro)

Inks

Jack Burnley (cover repro)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

superhero

Characters

Starman [Ted Knight]

Reprints

• from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #61 (April 1941) [cover reprint only]
• in Justice League of America (DC, 1960 series) #112 (July-August 1974)
• in Justice Society of America 100-Page Super Spectacular, No. 1, 1975 Issue (DC, 2000 series) ([July] 2000)
• in Crisis on Multiple Earths: The Team-Ups (DC, 2005 series) #2 ([May] 2007)

Indexer Notes

Sequence added by Jan Roar Hansen. Credits from Ted Watson.

On the page immediately preceding page 9 of the main story sequence.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

Tootsie Roll / advertisement / 0.33 page (report information)

The Origin of Black Canary (Table of Contents: 9)

Black Canary / text article / 1 page (report information)

Script

Julius Schwartz

Pencils

Carmine Infantino (cover repro)

Inks

Carmine Infantino (cover repro)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

superhero

Reprints

• from Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #92 (February 1948) [cover reprint only]
• in Crisis on Multiple Earths: The Team-Ups (DC, 2005 series) #1 (2005 [February 2006])

Indexer Notes

Sequence added by Jan Roar Hansen. Credits from Ted Watson.

On the page immediately following page 18 of the main story sequence.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

G.I. Joe / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 11) (Expand) /

Jimmy Olsen; 80 Page Giant Magazine / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.67 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12) (Expand) /

Tootsie Roll / advertisement / 0.33 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 13) (Expand) /

Detective Comics; Green Lantern / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

10 Issues of Brave & Bold for Only $1.00 (Table of Contents: 14) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

40 Army-Navy-Marine Medals & Insignias (Table of Contents: 15) (Expand) /

40 Army-Navy-Marine Medals & Insignias / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

126 World War II Fighting G.I.'s and Commandos (Table of Contents: 16) (Expand) /

126 World War II Fighting G.I.'s and Commandos / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 17) (Expand) /

Junior Sales Club of America Cards / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 18) (Expand) /

Wallace Brown Greeting Cards / advertisement / 1 page (report information)