Viking Prince
Viking Prince | |
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Publisher | DC Comics |
First appearance | The Brave and the Bold #1 (August/September 1955) |
Created by | Robert Kanigher (writer) Joe Kubert (artist) |
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Alter ego | Jon Haraldson |
Species | Human |
Abilities | Impervious to ancient weapons Has all the skills and abilities of a fully trained knight. |
The Viking Prince is a fictional Viking hero appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. The character first appeared in The Brave and the Bold #1 (August 1955), and was created by Robert Kanigher and drawn by Joe Kubert.[1] He was one of three historical fiction characters to premiere in the first issue (the other two being the Silent Knight and the Golden Gladiator).
Fictional character biography
In The Brave and the Bold #1, the main character is found amnesiac, on a beach by 10th century Scandinavian fishermen, who named him "Jon" after a legendary prince. His enemy Thorvald knew his true identity, and wanted to kill him before he regained his memory, or met someone else who recognized him.[2] This set-up was ignored by later writers, some of whom made no mention of his background, while others portrayed him as an actual prince, the son of King Rikk.
The Viking Prince continued to appear in The Brave and the Bold until #24 (Jun/Jul 1959).
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The Viking Prince is one of six DC heroes featured in Walter Simonson's 2012 graphic novel The Judas Coin.
The Viking Prince made an appearance in the series The Odyssey of the Amazons.
The Viking Prince appeared in the 2020 crossover event "Endless Winter" as one of the heroes from the 10th Century who fought against the Frost King, alongside Hippolyta, Black Adam and a 10th Century version of Swamp Thing. In the flashbacks of this story it is revealed that he finally found his heroic death while fighting the Frost King and was welcomed into Valhalla.[3] His spirit was later summoned to the present day by Hippolyta, where he was temporarily made an avatar of the Green (the force that connects all plant life on Earth and which gives Swamp Thing his powers).[4] After fighting in the climactic battle of the story, in which he inhabited a gigantic version of Swamp Thing to fight an equally gigantic avatar of the Frost King, Hippolyta offered to find him another vessel so that his spirit could remain in the world of the living. The Prince declined, returning to Valhalla to continue enjoying his long-awaited reward.[5]
Other versions
The Viking Prince appears briefly in Darwyn Cooke's DC: The New Frontier, a story of his being cast away and washing up on Dinosaur Island is told in a book discovered by the Martian Manhunter in his guise of John Jones.
Collected editions
- The Viking Prince (collects ISBN 978-1-4012-2777-7
In other media
Jon Haraldson appears in the Justice League Unlimited episode "To Another Shore". This version disappeared after traveling the world in a failed attempt to seek death, with his corpse ending up in an iceberg in the present day. The Secret Society are sent to retrieve Jon in hopes of reverse-engineering his invulnerability, but Justice League members Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, and Green Arrow intervene, defeat the Society members, and give Jon a proper Viking funeral by sending him and his ship into the sun to prevent his body from falling into the wrong hands.
References
- ISBN 978-1-4654-5357-0.
- ^ Markstein, Don. "The Viking Prince". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
- ^ Endless Winter #1. DC Comics.
- ^ Justice League Dark Vol. 2 #29. DC Comics.
- ^ Justice League: Endless Winter #2. DC Comics.
External links
- Viking Prince at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on July 19, 2015.