(Top-Notch Comics 007, 1940)
Tasked with finding the two-days-overdue Sir Gawain, Galahad discovers him being set upon by ruffians in the employ of the Knight of the Griffin, a dastardly character who hates King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
Galahad proceeds to confront the Knight himself, where we find that he is based on Sir Turquine, a villainous knight who had both the knight-summoning bell and tree full of defeated knights' shields as seen above, but who critically hated Lancelot, Galahads father, and battled knights as part of a long-term plan to kill him, whereas the Knight of the Griffin is more of an anti-Knights of the Round Table guy.
Thanks to an exposure to a Choose Your Own Adventure version of this story in my youth, I think I have an inflated sense of how iconic the tree of shields is, but I love it. It's very ominous!
The Knight of the Griffin is also aided and abetted by his wife, Morgana le Fay, who hoodwinks knights into getting her a drink of water and then swaps their good swords for ones that will shatter during the cut and thrust of knightly combat. This is not a part of Sir Turquine's story - though Morgan le Fay has plenty of evil knights in her roster of exes, she and Turquine don't seem to have been an item.
Between the broken sword and the home field advantage, the Knight of the Griffin has Galahad on the ropes, and might have emerged victorious if Merlin the Magician hadn't been lurking nearby to bring the tree of shields crashing down to unhorse him. Given a more even contest, Galahad is able to employ some Arthurian judo and heave tKotG off of a cliff to his doom.
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