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Issue: Robin Hood Tales #8
Publication Date: March 1957
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Issues: #8 of 8 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Superman DC National ComicsView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: National Comics Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/27/1957
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 15 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Schwartz kept editorial records for Robert Kanigher, who edited this issue.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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The Amazing Arrow!

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Robin Hood
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In Content Item: FlagThe Brave and the Bold #17 published June 1957
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Disclose Notes: Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Schwartz kept editorial records for Robert Kanigher, who edited this issue.
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Robin Hood - New Sheriff of Nottingham!

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Robin Hood
Synopsis: Prince John appoints Robin the new Sheriff of Nottingham. Robin accepts to protect the populace. His Merry Men are sent to France with Marion. The prince sends thugs in disguise, knights in armor, and ambushers after Robin. The ace archer even extricates himself from quicksand by roping a waterwheel. Captives say his Merry Men are actually locked in a dungeon. Disguising farmers as his own force, Robin frees his men and is "fired" as Sheriff.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Brave and the Bold #17 published June 1957
as Robin Hood - New Sheriff of Nottingham! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFantomet #23/1986 published January 1986
as Nottinghams nye sheriff! [Story on Interior Page(s)]minus 0.67 page
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First Line: To the boys and girls of America...
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Buzzy's Special Brotherhood Week Quiz

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Genres: non-fiction, opinion
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The Amazing Arrow!

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Robin Hood
Synopsis: Prince John has taken a hostage. Robin must free him, and protect himself, from three dangers - with only one arrow! Robin faces down a wild bull, an assassin while snared in a net, and a swing from a waterfall, finally using his one arrow. But in freeing the hostage from a treetop trap, Robin uses a second arrow - whittled and fletched from the first! "One arrow was too much for Prince John!"
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In Content Item: FlagThe Brave and the Bold #23 published December 1957
as Amazing Arrow!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFantomet #5/1987 published January 1987
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Jim and Betty solve the "Flying Saucer" Mystery!

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Feature(s): In the Days of Robin Hood
First Line: Falcons were so highly prized...
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The Amazing Archers

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The Juggler of Sherwood Forest!

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Robin Hood
Synopsis: An old family friend, a puny juggler, seeks to join the Merry Men. Robin's men insist he be tested in feats of arms - as news come that Little John has been captured. To the rescue! Robin secretly helps the juggler shoot off the Sheriff's hat and dunk a quarterstaff champion off a bridge, but they're captured. Robin is bound in the Sheriff's castle. The old juggler enters, juggling everything at hand, including an ax that frees Robin! Escaping, the juggler finds a home in Sherwood Forest. "One never knows what skills may win a battle!"
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In Content Item: FlagThe Brave and the Bold #19 published August 1957
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In Content Item: FlagFantomet #14/1987 published January 1987
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Mickey Mantle Goes to Bat for "Billy Bikeless"

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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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