The Brave and the Bold #85

DC Comics

United States

Published
August-September 1969
Page count
36
Cover price
0.15 USD
Colour
Colour
Size
Standard size
Interior paper
Newsprint
Cover stock
Glossy colour
Binding
Saddle-stitched
Format
Comic series
GCD
www.comics.org/issue/22878

Credits

Editing
Murray Boltinoff

Issue contents Hide all

Show/hide Cover The Senator's Been Shot! (Batman; Green Arrow) Cover, 1 page

Featuring

Feature
Batman; Green Arrow
Genre
Superhero
Code
B277
Characters
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]

Credits

Art
Neal Adams
Letters
Gaspar Saladino ?

Reprint history

Also printed
Australia
Superman Presents Tip Top Comic Monthly (Colour Comics, 1965 series) #57 ([January 1970?])
Untitled
Show/hide 1. The Senator's Been Shot! (Batman; Green Arrow) Comic story, 21.83 pages

Featuring

Feature
Batman; Green Arrow
Genre
Superhero
Code
B-277
Characters
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Paul Cathcart; Edmond Cathcart; Miklos Minotaur; Munson

Credits

Script
Bob Haney
Art
Neal Adams
Letters
Ben Oda

Reprint history

Also printed
Australia
Superman Presents Tip Top Comic Monthly (Colour Comics, 1965 series) #57 ([January 1970?])
The Senator's Been Shot
 
United States
DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (DC, 1980 series) #23 (July 1982)
The Senator's Been Shot!
 
United States
The Best of the Brave and the Bold (DC, 1988 series) #1 (October 1988)
The Senator's Been Shot!
 
United States
Millennium Edition: The Brave and The Bold No. 85 (DC, 2000 series) (November 2000)
The Senator's Been Shot!
 
United States
Batman Illustrated by Neal Adams (DC, 2003 series) #1 ([September] 2003)
The Senator's Been Shot!
 
United States
Showcase Presents Green Arrow (DC, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
The Senator's Been Shot!
 
United States
Showcase Presents The Brave and the Bold Batman Team-Ups (DC, 2007 series) #1 (2007)
The Senator's Been Shot!

Synopsis

Both Batman and Green Arrow are attacked by Miklos Minotaur in their alter egos and have to decide if they can do more good by stopping being superheroes.

Notes

Story across 23 pages, but pages 7 and 23 are 2/3-pages and page 15 is a 1/2-page.

Previous indexer credited Dick Giordano with inks, but Nick Caputo concurs with the original indexer that Adams is the inker.

"New look" Green Arrow is introduced.

Show/hide 2. No title recorded (The Brave and the Bold Mailbag) Letters page, 1 page

Featuring

Feature
The Brave and the Bold Mailbag
Code
B-280

Credits

Script
Murray Boltinoff
Letters
typeset

Notes

Letters section includes noting the changes in Green Arrow's personality and appearance and a bio of Neal Adams by his wife Cornelia. Letter of comment from Joseph Maggio.


Notes

On-sale date from copyright registration.

Status

AusReprints ID

  • 34697

Entry created

  • 28/10/2007

Index completed

  • 18/09/2019

Last updated

  • 18/09/2019