Great White North Bold
Brave and the Bold 6

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Brave and the Bold #6 Universal
Grade: 8.0
Page Quality: WHITE
Certification #: 2045611005
Owner: JLA Brad

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: Great White North Bold
Date Added: 6/2/2021
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Ebay auction?!?? win - May 2021. Quite frankly, an ebay auction was the last place I thought I would find one of the three HIGHEST GRADED copies on the CGC census, and yet, here we are. This was the last book I needed to complete my Brave and the Bold #1-24 mini-run!!! Ultimately, once I made the decision to complete this mini-run, it took me almost SIX years to get to this point. You can do it faster than I did, but I was trying to hold out for copies at the upper end of the census rather than just filling the holes as quickly as possible.

The first six issues of this series tend to max out at a grade of 8.0 (with B&B#3 being the strange exception). In fact, B&B#2 has no higher CGC graded book than a 7.5 (which I...don't own...yet).

Looking at the entire B&B run (all 200 issues), with this auction win, I'm now (as of May 2021) sixteen issues away from a complete CGC certified collection of the series. I do have some raw or other encapsulated copies of the sixteen still outstanding, but I would imagine I'm still another couple years away from achieving the goal. I have a feeling I will have a harder time with the few outstanding later issues than the earlier ones. It will be interesting to see if I'm right in that assumption.

Back to B&B#6...the was the LAST appearance of the Golden Gladiator in the series, having previously appeared in issues #1-4. The character wouldn't be seen again until DC Special #12 in June 1971...and that was a reprint of his B&B#1 story. It wouldn't be until All Star Squadron #54 in February 1986 that the character would appear in a new story. Of course, that appearance was not much more than a cameo as it was a Crisis storyline which involved upwards of fifty DC characters.

Also included in this issue were stories on Robin Hood and the Silent Knight (whom appeared on this issue's cover). The late, great Irv Novick (1916-2004) penned the cover (as he always did on these early issues).

 
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