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Issue: Challengers of the Unknown #31
Publication Date: April 1963
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Issues: #31 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: 02/14/1963
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 19 (3 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 Man Who Saved the Challengers' Lives!

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Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Red Ryan; Prof Haley; Rocky Davis; Ace Morgan; Wilfred Clayton
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In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents Challengers of the Unknown #2 published June 2008
as Challengers of the Unknown No. 31 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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The Man Who Saved the Challenger's Lives, Chapter 1

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Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Challengers of the Unknown [Ace Morgan; Rocky Davis; Prof Haley; Red Ryan]; Wilfred Clayton; Barton; Sir Lawrence Revere; President Domingo
Synopsis: Wilfred Clayton insists he saved the Challengers' lives at their plane crash and they all owe him. Each thinks back to their lives before they became Challengers. Rocky was wrestling a brute named Barton and, despite the mob drugging his water, he won the match. Prof was a spoiled heir with a new yacht who sideswiped a work boat containing his hero, Sir Lawrence Revere, slaving to salvage a statue for local fishermen, and in helping him Prof starts to grow up.
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In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents Challengers of the Unknown #2 published June 2008
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In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents Challengers of the Unknown #2 published June 2008
as The Secret from the Challengers' Past [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents Challengers of the Unknown #2 published June 2008
as The Warrior from 1,000 A.D. [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Feature(s): My Greatest Adventure; Tales of the Unexpected
First Line: For the very best...
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Chapter 2: The Secret from the Challengers' Past

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Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Challengers of the Unknown [Ace Morgan; Rocky Davis; Prof Haley; Red Ryan]; Wilfred Clayton
Synopsis: Before they all met, Red worked on a radio tower for President Domingo in a South American country where a kid asks Red to stop the dictator's evil plans, teaching Red true heroism. Ace ran a tiny air service delivering nitro to prospectors and when a crate breaks loose he heroically delivered the cargo. Flying to their appearance on the Heroes TV show, Ace's plane crashes and they become men "living on borrowed time." Clayton claims that what they don't know is that he saved their lives after the crash. In return, he wants them to go to South America and assemble a giant statue for him.
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Hit the Combat Trail

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Genres: western
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Disclose Notes: Letters from Tommy Jones, D. D. Dixon, and H. W. Greene plus snippets of other readers' letters.
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Chapter 3: The Warrior from 1,000 A.D.

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Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Challengers of the Unknown [Ace Morgan; Rocky Davis; Prof Haley; Red Ryan]; Wilfred Clayton; Dr. Steuben
Synopsis: In South America, trying to assemble the statue, Prof and Red are attacked by its flying arm and sword. They are able to reattach the arm, but realize the statue is actually a robot. Clayton binds and imprisons them along with Dr. Steuben, the robot's inventor. Meanwhile, Ace and Rocky secure the robot's other arm and are about to reattach it to the statue, when it seemingly goes crazy and batters the statue. Ace had reprogrammed the arm to destroy the robot because he realized there was one detail Clayton had gotten wrong in the Challengers' origin story.
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As Hot as Tomorrow's Headlines!

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Feature(s): Dr. No
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