The Brave and the Bold
1st Century CE
A shepherd named Marcus is framed for a crime he did commit and sentenced to slavery. Becoming a gladiator in ancient Rome, Marcus earns his freedom and the prize of a golden helmet. With the helmet he becomes the Golden Gladiator, a celebrated hero of the Roman Empire.
A century later the Roman Centurion, also named Marcus, is selected by an alien race to learn from them and become a great hero. He spends ten years with the aliens before returning to Earth, but due to the time dilation effects of interstellar travel nearly 2,000 pass on Earth and he does not arrive until the 21st Century where he would adopt the identity of the Alpha Centurion.
6th Century CE
The legendary Arthur reigns as King of Britain from his court of Camelot, advised by the wizard Merlin, a golden age that echoed that of the earlier King Arthur of ancient lore. He would rule with the aid of his Knights of the Round Table and other champions like Sir Justin the Shining Knight and the mysterious Silent Knight, as well as the demon Etrigan, who had been summoned by Merlin to serve the King. Arthur's frequent foe was his half-sister, the sorceress Morgaine le Fey, a conflict that would eventually lead to the fall of Camelot.
8th Century CE
A young Native American boy, the last of his tribe, is found drifting in a canoe out at sea by Viking explorers. The Vikings take in the boy, named Arak, and teach him to fight. Arak would have many adventures across Europe, including serving in the court of Charlemagne, before returning to North America to seek his true origins.
10th Century CE
Legends tell of Jon, the Viking Prince, a great hero of medieval Scandinavia, who in some tales was an orphan and in others the known son of a monarch. All the tales agree that Jon was a brave and capable warrior who battled evil wherever he found it.
14th Century CE
A man is born to a tribe of nomads somewhere in Arabia. Leaving his tribe to become learned in science and medicine, the man would discover the secret of the Lazarus Pits and become the immortal criminal known today as Ra's al Ghul.
16th Century CE
English nobleman Jon Valor assembles a crew and sets sail as the masked Black Pirate, battling injustices as wars waged across Europe. The mantle of the Black Pirate would be taken up by Valor's son, and later by his son and so on for several more generations until at least the time of Blackbeard, leading to the legend that the Black Pirate was a ghost captain.
Andrew Bennet, a noble in the court of Queen Elizabeth I, is turned into a vampire. He chooses to resist the bloodlust and vows to only feed off animals. Bennet would spend the next few centuries fighting other vampires, notably those of the Cult of the Blood Red Moon led by Andrew's former lover Mary who had been unable or unwilling to fight her own vampiric instincts when she was transformed into one by a remorseful Bennet.
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