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Issue: Challengers of the Unknown #4
Publication Date: October 1958
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Issues: #4 of 87 Issues (90 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Superman DC National ComicsView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: National Comics Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/14/1958
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 19 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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reprinted 16 times as Content Items in other Issues.
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FlagChallengers of the Unknown #3 published January 1960 as The Wizard of Time [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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The Wizard of Time!

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Genres: adventure
First Line: Goodbye, Challengers! My suspension beam will keep you helpless in the air!
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In Content Item: FlagChallengers of the Unknown Archives #2 published July 2004
as [Cover - Challengers of the Unknown #4]; The Wizard of Time! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents Challengers of the Unknown #1 published December 2006
as Challengers of the Unknown #4 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Draw Me!

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Chapter 1: The Wizard of Time

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Professor Harlan Fuller (archeologist); ancient Greeks
First Line: I-I can hardly believe it!
Synopsis: When a group of men dressed as ancient Greek soldiers attempts to steal a plane, one is captured. The Challengers are brought in to investigate and find that the captured soldier only wishes to return to the "Island of the Wizard." The soldier leads the Challs to this island where they meet Darius Tiko, who experiments with time travel. Confronted, the scientist disappears in a time cube but the Challs and the soldier follow in another cube, to track down Tiko and recover his stolen technology.
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In Content Item: FlagMighty The 100-Page Comic! #10 published March 1959
as The Wizard of Time: Chapter I [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMighty The 100-Page Comic! #10 published March 1959
as The Men Who Rode Across the Sun: Chapter II [The Wizard of Time] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMighty The 100-Page Comic! #10 published March 1959
as The Sorcerer's Sect: Chapter III [The Wizard of Time] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMighty The 100-Page Comic! #10 published March 1959
as The Mechanical Judge: Chapter IV [The Wizard of Time] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuper DC Giant #S-25 published July 1971
as The Wizard of Time, Chapter 1 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuper DC Giant #S-25 published July 1971
as Chapter II: The Men Who Rode Across the Sun [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuper DC Giant #S-25 published July 1971
as Chapter III: The Sorcerer's Sect [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuper DC Giant #S-25 published July 1971
as Chapter IV: The Mechanical Judge [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuper Héros #6 published January 1980
as Sorcier du temps [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagChallengers of the Unknown Archives #2 published July 2004
as The Wizard of Time [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents Challengers of the Unknown #1 published December 2006
as The Wizard of Time [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents Challengers of the Unknown #1 published December 2006
as The Men Who Rode Across the Sun [Chapter II] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents Challengers of the Unknown #1 published December 2006
as The Sorcerer's Sect [Chapter III] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents Challengers of the Unknown #1 published December 2006
as The Mechanical Judge [Chapter IIII (sic)] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5.67
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[untitled]

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Genres: anthropomorphic
First Line: It's fun for some we must agree to dream of treasures under sea...
Synopsis: A bear swims underwater wearing scuba gear and discovers a treasure chest full of Tootsie Rolls.
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Pages: 0.33
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Do You Know the Legend of Superman?

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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: I've noticed you on your flying carpet, Moolah!
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Pages: 1
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Chapter II: The Men Who Rode Across the Sun

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): the Oracle; ancient Greeks
First Line: Faster, Ace, faster! These ancients play pretty rough!
Synopsis: Having split up, Ace and Rocky are looking for Tiko and his stolen technology in ancient Greece where they are accused by an oracle of being messengers of ill omen. They run from the Greeks, find Tiko's stolen plane, and crash it near where they hope Prof and Red will return with their time cube.
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Pages: 4.67
Disclose Notes: Wood inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Marvin Stein. Per Stein's conversations with Greg Theakston, he did not ink any Challengers stories.
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[untitled]

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Genres: anthropomorphic
First Line: The future holds real fun in store unknown planets to explore...
Synopsis: A bear rides a Tootsie Roll Pop rocket in outer space.
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Advertisement for both Tootsie Roll Pop and Tootsie Roll Fudge.
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Lost -- A Free Education!

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: opinion, teen
Character(s): Tim
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This PSA is produced in sequential comics-art style.
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Chapter III: The Sorcerer's Sect

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Rhamis (the Pharaoh's astrologer); the Sorcerer's Sect; Nostradamus; ancient Egyptians; ancient Greeks
First Line: This is a fine welcome to ancient Egypt!
Synopsis: In Egypt, Prof and Red destroy Tiko's stolen telescope, reunite with Rocky and Ace, and head to the 15th century to find Nostradamus and Tiko, but Tiko has already met the seer and gone.
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Pages: 6.67
Disclose Notes: The splash page is very reminiscent of a panel in Fantastic Four #19 with Rama-Tut.

Wood inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Marvin Stein. Per Stein's conversations with Greg Theakston, he did not ink any Challengers stories.
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[untitled]

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Genres: anthropomorphic
First Line: Boys and girls- please, give me a name... enter the big Tootsie Roll "Name the Bear" contest!
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Pages: 0.33
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Cosmic Time Bomb

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: adventure, science fiction
Character(s): Mark Cranston
First Line: Tension mounted in the steel and concrete bunker at the satellite launching station.
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous, science fiction
First Line: Come, I will show you around our planet, Dr. Rocket!
Synopsis: Doctor Rocket gets a tour on an alien city covered with a giant glass dome where nothing gets done on Tuesdays. On Tuesday everybody in the city spends the day washing the glass roof.
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Pages: 1
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Chapter IV: The Mechanical Judge

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): United Earth police; electronic judge
First Line: We made it!
Synopsis: The Challengers find Tiko in the year 3,000 AD, but all are arrested and submitted to the judgment of a machine, which dismisses all charges and sends them back to their own time (in one cube) for Tiko to face justice.
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Pages: 6.67
Disclose Notes: The fate of the second time cube is revealed in Adventures of Superman (DC, 1987 series) #508 (January 1994).

Wood inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Marvin Stein. Per Stein's conversations with Greg Theakston, he did not ink any Challengers stories.
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[untitled]

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First Line: Be my guest at Palisades Amusement Park, New Jersey.
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Pages: 0.33
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[untitled]

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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Pages: 1
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Hey Skinny! ...Yer Ribs Are Showing!

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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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