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Issue: Challengers of the Unknown #53
Publication Date: December 1966
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Issues: #53 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: 10/04/1966
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 19 (1 story, 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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Who Is the Traitor Among Us?

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Dimension Man; Iron Dictator
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Superman Talks About... "Pennies for UNICEF!"

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Genres: opinion, superhero
Synopsis: After Joe claims he's going to keep the pennies for himself, Superman takes Joe and Tom to Asia, South America, and Africa to show them first-hand how much good the pennies they collect for UNICEF can do.
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Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Who Is the Traitor Among Us?

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Scientist-X; Dimension-Man; The Iron Dictator; Neo-Nazis
First Line: DC once more --
Synopsis: Brought to a trashed laboratory, the Challengers hear a message from Scientist X telling the team they can find his valuable inventions by solving three clues. The Challs are bushwhacked by Dimension-Man, who wants the inventions for himself. To help him, D-Man pulls out of limbo the Iron Dictator. After the Challs decode the clues to the location of the inventions, Iron Dictator distracts them and D-Man knocks them out, making it appear that one of them is a traitor. But the Challs refuse to fall for it, defeat the Iron Dictator's neo-Nazis, and make Scientist X's headquarters their new home.
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On the Go with Motorific!

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Disclose Notes: Ad for Ideal's Motorific toys.
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The Kat from AMT Jumps the Gun

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[untitled]

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Disclose Notes: On the page immediately preceding page 5 of the main story sequence.
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Hawkman Beware!

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Disclose Notes: On the bottom of page 9 of the main story sequence.
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Mike's Toy Factory

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Disclose Notes: On the page between page 9 and page 10 of the main story sequence.
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[untitled]

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First Line: For a million laughs...
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Disclose Notes: On the bottom of page 16 of the main story sequence.
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[untitled]

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Disclose Notes: Letter from David J. Esser and snippets of letters from other readers; on the page immediately following page 16 of the main story sequence.
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[untitled]

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Disclose Notes: On the page immediately following the previous sequence.
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Captain Billy and the Kid

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Disclose Notes: On the page immediately preceding page 17 of the main story sequence.
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[untitled]

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First Line: I'm going to customize my model car...
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Job Number: 6446
Disclose Notes: Idea from Haynes Skowes.
On the page immediately preceding page 17 of the main story sequence.
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[untitled]

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Disclose Notes: On the page between page 21 and page 22 of the main story sequence.
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[untitled]

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Disclose Notes: On the page between page 21 and page 22 of the main story sequence.
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[untitled]

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First Line: For the most in thrills...
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Telegraph Set

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Battle Grounds of the World!

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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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[untitled]

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Disclose Notes: Ad for Aurora's Model Motoring toys.
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