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Issue: Challengers of the Unknown #23
Publication Date: December 1961
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Issues: #23 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 Periodical Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/12/1961
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 17 (4 stories, 1 cover)
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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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The Island in the Sky!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Genres: adventure, superhero
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTitanes Planetarios #146 published October 1962
as La isla en el cielo [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents Challengers of the Unknown #2 published June 2008
as Challengers of the Unknown No. 23 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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Test Your Talent!

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Death Guarded the Doom Box

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Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Challengers of the Unknown [Ace Morgan; Rocky Davis; Prof Haley; Red Ryan]; Burt Langdon; Langdon's gang
Synopsis: Burt Langdon has stolen the Horn of Herix from a museum. The Challengers track Langdon to a valley where a Doom Box, a legendary weapon, is hidden. Weird boobytraps slow the Challs: an alligator, a tree-turned-elevator, and giant robot Romans. They find the horn discarded, then the Doom Box guarded by a flames and a two-headed dragon! Ace blows the horn and a ray from the box drives back the dragon and flames. Langdon’s gang attacks, grabs the box, and runs. Ace blows the horn again, and the box explodes, because the horn was made to destroy the box if it were moved from its ring of flames.
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In Content Item: FlagMighty Comic #28 published March 1962
as Death Guarded the Doom Box [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTitanes Planetarios #146 published October 1962
as La guardiana de la caja del rayo [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents Challengers of the Unknown #2 published June 2008
as Death Guarded the Doom Box [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 11.67
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[untitled]

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First Line: Tootsie Roll makes history!
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Pages: 0.33
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[untitled]

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Genres: superhero
First Line: Re-live the adventures of Superman when he was a boy!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: House ad for Superboy # 93.
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People Are People!

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Genres: opinion
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Amoeba, Robot, Fossil

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Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Scientific Word Origins
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Pages: 0.5
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207 Stamps

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The Island in the Sky

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Challengers of the Unknown [Ace Morgan; Rocky Davis; Prof Haley; Red Ryan]; June Robbins; Dr. Kue (alien scientist); Dr. Greeg (alien scientist); Zog (alien criminal); Zog's gang (alien criminals)
Synopsis: June calls in the Challs when objects vanish from a rooftop restaurant. They find that aliens are trapping people in cylinders below a mysterious cloud. While Ace and Red discover a flying platform within the cloud controlled by alien criminals, Rocky and Prof battle a giant metal insect. Two aliens destroy the insect and explain that they’re scientists who commanded the platform until criminals seized it. With the aliens' help Rocky and Prof go to the platform, reunite with Ace and Red, and brawl with the criminals. The good aliens trap everyone, then release the Challs before heading home.
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In Content Item: FlagTitanes Planetarios #146 published October 1962
as La isla en el cielo [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents Challengers of the Unknown #2 published June 2008
as The Island in the Sky [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 12.67
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The Amazing Predictions of Mlle. Lenormard

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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On the page immediately following page 8 of the previous story sequence.
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous, science fiction
First Line: It's all finished!
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In Content Item: FlagTitanes Planetarios #146 published October 1962
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Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: On the page immediately preceding page 9 of the previous story sequence.
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[untitled]

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First Line: I'm a fudge judge...
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: On the page immediately preceding page 9 of the previous story sequence.
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[untitled]

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First Line: Kids flip their lids for Tootsie Roll ice cream bar
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100 Toy Soldiers $1.25

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[untitled]

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First Line: Draw any person in one minute
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[untitled]

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First Line: Skinny or fat, 15, 20, 30 or 40 years of age...
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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[untitled]

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First Line: Announcing the all-new Daisy B-B gun
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Sold by Daisy Manufacturing Company.
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