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Issue: Challengers of the Unknown #74
Publication Date: June 1970
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Issues: #74 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: 03/31/1970
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 17 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.
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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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Challengers of the Unknown
First Line: Daddy! Daddy! Please save me!
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In Content Item: FlagThe Deadman Collection #[nn] published January 2001
as Challengers of the Unknown #74 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: B-602 ?
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Now! Available for the First Time!

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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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To Call a Deadman

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Challengers of the Unknown [Ace Morgan; Rocky Davis; Prof Haley; Red Ryan; Corinna Stark]; Deadman; Jonny Double; Vashnu; Dr. McJames; unnamed daughter; Seth Gross; Nodo
Synopsis: Deadman narrates the story. Dr. McJames steals the Ruby of Khafir and gives it to a hunchback, Nodo, in an old tower. Johnny Double, PI, breaks in and arrests McJames - then consults the Challengers. Corinna hypnotizes McJames and learns he was forced to steal from the museum when his daughter's spirit was captured by Seth Gross, a vengeful ghost. When the Challs fail to stop the ghost Deadman takes over finding out that Gross is only a petty magician who uses astral-projection. Deadman possesses Gross's body and rescues the girl's spirit.
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In Content Item: FlagWorld's Finest Comics #230 published May 1975
as To Call a Deadman [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Deadman Collection #[nn] published January 2001
as To Call a Deadman [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 22.17
Job Number: B-521
Disclose Notes: Across 23 pages, but page 7 is 2/3 of a page and page 16 is 1/2 of a page.

Per info in The Comic Reader #'s 75-77, Deadman was originally scheduled to become a back-up series but those plans changed and the series instead became all-reprint with the following issue. Info per Nick Caputo.

Neal Adams drew the Deadman figure on page one and pages 17-23. The remainder was drawn by George Tuska.
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Aurora Model Motoring

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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On the page between page 4 and page 5 of the previous story sequence.
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: On the bottom of page 7 of the previous story sequence.
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: On the page between page 10 and page 11 of the previous story sequence.
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Disclose Notes: On the page between page 10 and page 11 of the previous story sequence.
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The House of Secrets; Unexpected

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Snoopy Strikes Again!

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Disclose Notes: On the page between page 18 and page 19 of the previous story sequence.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Job Number: B-593
Disclose Notes: Includes a letter from Carl Gafford.
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40 Army-Navy-Marine Medals & Insignias

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Genres: humorous
First Line: I've been travelling a long time!
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From Content Item: FlagHouse of Mystery #84 published March 1959
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
Job Number: B-624
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So You Want to Be a Cartoonist?

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Job Number: K-316
Disclose Notes: Joe Kubert explains the basics of drawing.
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Dark As Death

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Genres: horror
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Pages: 1
Job Number: B-422-1
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Sold by Honor House Products and karate lessons by Guaranteed Distributors.
Inside back cover.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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