The Brave and the Bold
#172
[Direct]
(March 1981)
DC,
1955 Series
- Volume
- 27
- Price
- 0.50 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (managing editor); Paul Levitz (editor)
Issue Notes
[no title indexed]
Batman; Firestorm / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Jim Aparo (signed)
- Inks
- Jim Aparo (signed)
- Colors
- Tatjana Wood
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Job Number
- C-507
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Firestorm [Ronald Raymond; Professor Martin Stein]
- Reprints
-
in Tales of the Batman: Carmine Infantino (DC, 2014 series) ([July] 2014) - in Tales of the Batman: Gerry Conway (DC, 2017 series) #1 ([September] 2017)
- in Legends of the Dark Knight: Jim Aparo (DC, 2012 series) #3 ([November] 2017)
- in Batman: The Brave and the Bold - The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2017 series) #3 ([November] 2021)
-
Indexer Notes
Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
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Darkness and Dark Fire
Batman; Firestorm / comic story / 17 pages
- Script
- Gerry Conway
- Pencils
- Carmine Infantino
- Inks
- Steve Mitchell
- Colors
- Adrienne Roy
- Letters
- John Costanza
- Job Number
- J-6895
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Firestorm [Ronald Raymond; Professor Martin Stein]; Jason Bard; Justice League of America [Superman [Clark Kent]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Red Tornado [John Smith]; Flash [Barry Allen]]
- Synopsis
- Batman investigates strange behavior by Firestorm, while Jason Bard tries to uncover the secret of Professor Stein's sudden disappearances.
- Reprints
-
in Batman Sonderausgabe (Egmont Ehapa, 1981 series) #1 (1981) -
in Flash (Arédit-Artima, 1983 series) #6 (avril 1984) - in Tales of the Batman: Carmine Infantino (DC, 2014 series) ([July] 2014)
- in Tales of the Batman: Gerry Conway (DC, 2017 series) #1 ([September] 2017)
- in Batman: The Brave and the Bold - The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2017 series) #3 ([November] 2021)
-
Superman Saves the Weather Satellites!
Hostess Twinkies; Superman / comics-form advertising / 1 page
Pirate's Peril!
Nemesis / comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- J-7086
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Nemesis; Valerie Foxworth; M. C. Curtis
- Reprints
[no title indexed]
The Brave and the Bold Mailbag / letters page / 1 page
- Job Number
- L-687
Indexer Notes
Letters from John Zuber Jr, Gil Fein and T. M. Maple.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Batman; Firestorm -
1.
Darkness and Dark Fire
Batman; Firestorm -
2.
Superman Saves the Weather Satellites!
Hostess Twinkies; Superman -
3.
Pirate's Peril!
Nemesis -
4.
[no title indexed]
The Brave and the Bold Mailbag
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Lou Mazzella
- John Monagle
- Mike Nielsen
- Vik-Thor Rose
- Jim Van Dore
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