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Cover: Carmine Infantino & Charles Cuidera

The Brave and the Bold #73

Aug 1967 · DC · 0.12 USD

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“Galg the Destroyer”

★ 1st appearance — Vulko

About this Issue

The Brave and the Bold #73 (cover-dated September 1967) occupies a doubly significant position in DC Silver Age history: it marks the first solo team-up of Aquaman and the Atom outside the Justice League, and — more durably — it introduces Nuidis Vulko, the Atlantean chief scientific advisor who would go on to anchor the Aquaman supporting cast across decades of comics and eventually reach the screen in the DC Extended Universe. The issue also carries a quiet structural distinction: it is the very last issue of The Brave and the Bold to feature a non-Batman team-up, with every subsequent issue from #74 onward locking Batman in as the permanent co-star for over a hundred and twenty consecutive issues. That makes this Aquaman/Atom adventure both a capstone for the title's rotating-hero era and a launch pad for one of the Aquaman mythos's most enduring characters.

In "Galg the Destroyer," a 1967 tale from The Brave and the Bold #73, the spotlight turns to the legacies of history’s most notable short men—figures like Napoleon Bonaparte, Billy the Kid, John Horton Slaughter, and Tom Thumb—whose remarkable lives defy their stature. With bold visuals by Carmine Infantino and Charles Cuidera on the cover, this issue blends historical intrigue with the kind of imaginative storytelling that defined DC’s mid-century anthology style.

writer Bob Haney · artist Howard Purcell · inker Sal Trapani · letterer Milt Snapinn · cover Carmine Infantino, Charles Cuidera

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History

The story was written by Bob Haney, penciled by Howard Purcell, inked by Sal Trapani, and edited by George Kashdan — the editor who had shaped The Brave and the Bold into a superhero team-up vehicle through the mid-1960s. Kashdan had been steering the title since 1964, and this issue appeared near the very end of his tenure, which concluded in 1968. The cover was supplied by Carmine Infantino and Chuck Cuidera — a notable pairing, given that Infantino was simultaneously transitioning into management at DC and doing fewer interior assignments. According to comics writer and historian Paul Kupperberg, Vulko was very likely conceived by Haney as a one-off character for the single story, yet the character proved compelling enough that Haney folded him into his ongoing Aquaman scripts almost immediately — though artist Nick Cardy substantially redesigned Vulko's physical appearance when the character resurfaced in Aquaman #35 the very next month.

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First appearance of Nuidis Vulko, Atlantis's chief scientific advisor and one of Aquaman's most enduring supporting characters, created by writer Bob Haney and penciler Howard Purcell.
Story title: 'Galg the Destroyer' (also solicited as 'Hail, Galg the Destroyer!') — Atlantis is besieged by raiders from a microscopic aquatic world led by the mutant plankton monster Galg, and Aquaman calls on the Atom (Ray Palmer) for help.
The issue is the first time Aquaman and the Atom team up outside the context of the Justice League.
This is the final issue of The Brave and the Bold to feature a non-Batman team-up; starting with issue #74, Batman co-starred in every single issue through #200 (1983).
Interior credits: script by Bob Haney; pencils by Howard Purcell; inks by Sal Trapani; editor George Kashdan. Cover penciled by Carmine Infantino, inked by Chuck Cuidera.
Vulko's visual design was immediately revised: Nick Cardy redrew the character — giving him a heavier build and white hair — for Aquaman #35 (September–October 1967), the very next month.
Supporting Aquaman cast present in the issue includes Mera, Aqualad (Garth), Aquababy (Arthur Curry Jr.), and Aquaman's sea-horse Storm, as well as Aqualad's sea-horse Imp.
Nuidis Vulko was later portrayed by Willem Dafoe in the DC Extended Universe, appearing in Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) and the 2018 Aquaman film.