Comic Title: Brave and the Bold #1
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Aug/Sep 1955
Approx. On Sale Date: June 7, 1955 Copyright Date June 5, 1955
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1955
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.

Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 32
Editor: Robert Kanigher

Title: "Battle for the Dragon Ship"
Pages: 8

Feature(s):
Viking Prince (of Earth-1)

Writer: Robert Kanigher
Artist: Joe Kubert

Reprinted In:
DC Special #12 (1971)
Best of the Brave and the Bold #1 (1988)
Viking Prince HC (2010)

Feature Character(s)

• Viking Prince (Jon; first appearance; last appearance in Arak/Son of Thunder #11; next appearance in Brave and the Bold #2)

Supporting Character(s)

• Captain Olaf (a viking fisherman; next appearance in Brave and the Bold #2)
• Gunnda (Olaf's daughter; next appearance in Brave and the Bold #2)
• Olaf's tribe (fishermen; next appearance in Brave and the Bold #2)

Villain(s)

• Baron Thorvald (next appearance in Brave and the Bold #2)
• Sardluk (a spy; next appearance in Brave and the Bold #3)
• Thorvald's men (no further appearances)

Comments:
This is the first appearance of Jon the Viking Prince and takes place in 964 AD. Jon's earliest chronological appearance appears in Brave and the Bold #23.

Synopsis:
A viking fisherman, Captain Olaf, finds a youth in the waters off the coast of Norway. The youth has amnesia, but soon draws the attention of a spy named Sardluk. Sardluk reports to Baron Thorvald that the boy has survived. Thorvald orders Sardluk to kill the youth, but the boy proves to be a superior swordsman, defeating Sardluk.

Thorvald then takes a personal interest in killing the boy, whom the fisherman have named Jon, the Viking Prince. When Thorvald tries to sink Olaf’s fishing vessel, Jon destroys Thorvald’s sails, then rallies the fishermen. Thorvald is defeated, and he is forced to flee into the water, where he possibly perishes. Jon speculates that Thorvald is the only one who knew his true history.