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[https://braveandboldlost.blogspot.com/ '''''The Brave and the Bold: The Lost Issues'''''] is a blog created by an user named Ross in 2010. It features fake covers of the titular "Lost Issues" of ''[[The Brave and the Bold]]'' series in which [[Batman]] teams-up or fights with characters that never appeared in the series. Many of them aren't even [[DC Comics]] properties.

After doing over a hundred of these covers, Ross decided to take a break from Batman and started producing covers of ''Marvel Two-In-One'' lost issues, now with [[Fantastic Four|The Thing]] as the star. Later he's gone back to doing Batman team-ups and with December 2011 the world has seen first of the ''Super-Team Family'' lost issues, featuring different characters teaming up, starting with [[Spider-Man]] and [[The Creeper]].

You can find the site's first post [https://braveandboldlost.blogspot.com/2010/04/welcome-to-blog.html here].

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* [[Alternate Continuity]]: Thing and [[Legion of Super-Heroes]] has different versions of Ben teaming up with Legions from all continuities.
* [[An Offer You Can't Refuse]]: Scandal Savage telling Ben he will become new sixth member of [[Secret Six]] or their new victim, [[Crowning Moment of Funny|while they're chasing him in an ice truck]].
* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: [[The Tick (animation)]] is apparently one for Batman.
* [[Bad Future]]: Batman visits one in his team up with [[Batman Beyond]]; Thing does so in team-ups with Terry, [[Back to The Future|Doc Brown]], [[Terminator]] and [[Judge Dredd]].
* [[Big Name Fan]]: Ross; he got messages from many creators telling him they like his work, and Erik Larsen even commissioned Thing teaming up with [[Savage Dragon]].
* [[Body Horror]]: For Thing when [[The Spectre]] tried to make him even uglier.
* [[Crossover]]: All the time.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Both times Ross did team-ups between Batman and Henry Pym, Wasp was only "Guest Starring".
* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]: Thing, but he just wants to prepare JLA to fight Galactus.
* [[Enemies with Death]]: Okay, not that much of an enemy, but [[The Sandman|Death]] looks quite happy about [http://braveandboldlost.blogspot.com/2010/04/death.html Batman being drowned].At last much happier about it that [http://braveandboldlost.blogspot.com/2010/12/thing-and-death.html Ben trying to pick her up at bar].
* [[Enemy Mine]]: [[G.I. Joe|Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow]] [http://braveandboldlost.blogspot.com/2010/05/gi-joe.html have joined forces to take down their mutual enemy..]
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Suggested a lot of times with both heroes, keeping in tradition of [[Super Dickery|dishonest covers]]. At last we think so.
** And sometimes with other heroes, like with Batman and [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Raven]] team-up.
** [[Zig Zagged]] with Batman and [[Captain America (comics)]], where apparently they both think the other one is a traitor.
* [[Love Triangle]]: A common plot with Thing covers is that he and a recurring guest star (like [[Green Lantern]] Kyle Rayner or [[The Tick (animation)]]) are fighting over Alicia.
* [[Meet the New Boss]]: Many superhero team-ups have Ben or Batman taking over some superhero team.
** [[Tyrant Takes the Helm]]: When Batman takes over [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]], he kicks out all but seven members.
* [[The Mole]]: Thing in his team-ups with [[Superfriends]] and original [[Justice Society of America]].
* [[Name's the Same]]: The Thing and [[The Thing (film)|The Thing]] with special guest apperance by [[The Cat in the Hat|Thing 1 and Thing 2]]. [http://braveandboldlost.blogspot.com/2011/07/thing-and-thing.html behold]
** Batman teams up with Sandman. Or rather [[The Sandman]], [[Sandman Mystery Theatre|Sandman]] and [[Silver Age]] Sandman, one after another.
* [[One of Us]]: Ross is a big fan of Jim Apo and [[Jack Kirby]] so if he will have a chance to feature their artwork on the cover, he will do it. Many issues during Thing's run were made entirely of [[Jack Kirby]]'s art. He also likes ranting about featured characters, proving he has a liking for a large variety of comics.
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: [[House of Mystery|Cain]] somehow turned Ben into one.
* [[Red Skies Crossover]]: The cover for Batman teaming up with the classic [[Guardians of the Galaxy]] is really about the Guardians finding the frozen body of Hugo Strange, dressed in a Batman costume.
* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: A lot of team ups is using this. Thing and [[Swamp Thing]] has both characters fighting giant lizards, Thing and [[Tarzan]] has them against dinosaurs (Ross counts those two as a two-parter because of similair theme), Thing and [[Wonder Woman]] and Batman and [[Brother Voodoo]] have heroes attacked by snakes. Subverted with Thing and [[Animal Man]] and averted in Batman and [[Devil Dinosaur]].
* [[The Shadow Knows]]: There is more about [[Satan|man]] who faced Batman and [[Hellboy (comics)|Hellboy]] than meets the eye
* [[Special Effect Failure]]: Mostly averted, but there are rare exceptions, like the Thing and [[Supergirl]] issue.
* [[Super Dickery]]: Common. It's mostly our main stars, but from time to time we get bits like [[Doctor Strange]] turning Batman into an actual bat for some reason.
* [[They Killed Kenny]]: A common plot point of many Batman covers is the death of Robin. We have Batman and Speedy trying to avenge Robin's and [[Green Arrow]]'s murder, Batman teaming up with [[Daredevil]] after the death of Robin, Cloak and Dagger trying to punish Batman for allowing Robin to die, and so on.
* [[The Unexpected]]: Okay, did anyone expected The Thing to team up with [[Calvin and Hobbes]]? Or [[Wallace and Gromit]]?
* [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]]: Some of the fights go into this territory, with Thing fighting [[King Kong]] and [[Predator]] and Batman fighting [[Wolverine]], [[Dr. Doom]] or [[Star Wars|Darth Vader]].
** And now we have [[Aquaman]] vs [[Namor]].
** ''Super Team Family'' run really dwells into this, setting up all possible kinds of duels.
* [[Villain Team-Up]]: Also often, giving us things like Batmn and [[Doctor Strange]] finding out that Bat-Mite and The Impossible Man joined forces.
* [[Visual Effects of Awesome]]: It's hard to believe all those covers are made in MS Paint.

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