The Brave and the Bold: Wildcats - Part 1

The Undefeated Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Ted Grant, faced just as many obstacles as successes in his life. After training under former professional boxer Joe Morgan, Grant rose up the ranks of boxing until he fought the current champion and his sparring partner, Soccer Smith. When framed for Smith's dead during a fight, Grant sought to clear his name, and was inspired by a young boy regaling about the masked hero known as Green Lantern. Inspired by this example, Ted adopted the alter ego of Wildcat, and brought Soccer's killers to justice. Shortly thereafter, Wildcat joined the All-Star Squadron, and later Earth-Two's Justice Society of America. 

Decades later, Grant had retired from boxing and only recently came out of retirement as a costumed crimefighter. After a few teamups with his fellow members of the Justice Society, Wildcat found he was overwhelmed by a lowly crook named Sad Jack Dold, who had gained cosmic power. With the help of Jim Corrigan and his caped alias of the Spectre, Ted was able to shake off this lost and instead started Grant's Gym. This Gym was dedicated to training young men in the art of self-defense.

A couple years later, on the parallel planet of Earth-One, that world's Ted Grant had closed down his version of Grant's Gym due to various financial problems. Bruce Wayne sought him out in order to recruit Grant into becoming the coach of America's boxing team for the World Youth Games. however, Grant had lost his confidence in himself, which force Wayne to orchestrate a fake mugging that Ted was able to rescue him from... and still later in Vienna Austria where the games were being held, as Batman he fought Grant to a draw.

This inspired Ted to once more put on his Wildcat costume, and in both identities he assisted Batman in battling foreign spies. After a decisive victory versus the enemy country's boxing coach Koslov, himself an agent of this adversarial spy network, Ted used this experience to reignite his love of teaching young men the art of self-defense.

Would Ted-Two succeed with his gym where Ted-One failed? Will Ted-One resume his costumed career full time as had Ted-Two? Find out next time…