The Brave and the Bold: Wildcats - Part 2

The next appearance of the Wildcat from Earth-One was in Mexico. Batman had been tasked with tracking down a smuggling racket, when he found just outside of Acapulco a young cliffdiver named Luis Mercado performing before a crowd. There, Bruce Wayne saw a would-be assassin aiming a rifle at the lad, and so Wayne as Batman dove into the crook... disarming him. Curiously, Wayne noticed a poster for boxing legend "El Tigre", which looked like his old friend Ted "Wildcat" Grant.

Attending a boxing match that evening, Wayne witnessed El Tigre felled by a combination by drugged water before his opponent El Machette could connect his fist with him. However, Batman swooped into the boxing ring, saving his friend from men trying to abduct him. With Luis beside him, Batman learned from the lad that Ted Grant and Mercado's father were close friends from their fighting days... with Ted joining his Mexican pal in retrieving the valuable ancient treasure of Choclotan. Before they could do so, the racketeer leader El Grande (Mister Big) and his henchmen killed Luis' father and left an amnesiac Grant for dead in the mountains, which Luis soon after found.

With Ted leading the way, Batman and Luis were accompanied by "Macho" Mercado's old boxing manager El Sordo into the mountains to retrieve the treasure. In the course of events, they learned that Sordo was El Grande, with Wildcat force to fight Grande's prize boxer El Buey. Overpowered, Grant (with his memory now recovered) was coerced into revealing the location of Choclotan, although he sent the thugs into a trap. Honoring his late friend's dying wish, Ted secured the treasure for a Mexican museum.

Around this same period of time, the Wildcat of Earth-Two was facing his own perilous trial, with Batman also present during that adventure. The alien invader known as Creator2 along with his minions sought to destroy Earth-Two, in order to build a new planet to the specficiations of his mysterious clients (a year later revealed to be the Buddak, evil counterparts to the Guardians of the Universe, that desired to make this area of space the center of their universe as was Oa in Earth-One's realm).

Those minions attacked Superman, Doctor Mid-Nite and the Flash... disabling each of them temporarily. The remainer of the Justice Society were called into an emergency meeting which included honorary members Batman and Wildcat, although neither actively participated in this case which was quickly resolved thanks to their fellow members.

Around this period of time, this world's Ted Grant met the counterpart to Macho Mercado in the Mexican boxer Montez. He would likewise befriend that man and his family, and end up being the godfather to Mister Montez's granddaughter Yolanda. Yolanda later used her mutant feline abilities under the alias of the second Wildcat, after Ted became disabled during the Crisis on Infinite Universes.