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Issue: The Challenger #4
Publication Date: October 1946
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Issues: #4 of 4 Issues
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Publisher: FlagInterfaith Publications; T.C. Comics
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: Interfaith Committee of Protestant Digest Inc.
On Sale Date: 1946
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 10 (7 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Genres: sports
Character(s): Heinz Grohr; Rube Rappaport
Synopsis: Two boxers are fighting.
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Pages: 1
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The Whirlwind

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Genres: sports
Character(s): Whirlwind Wilson; Coach Tom Lee; Team Captain Dick Lambert; Mike Durant; Kelly; Sally Braden; Dan Giles
Synopsis: A football story where some of the white players of Jordan College pull a dirty prank on the only colored player (Wilson) which backfires and results in Wilson getting into the big game as their only hope for an upset victory against arch-rival Benson College.
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Pages: 12
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Casbah Cabal

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Feature(s): The Wedge
Character(s): The Wedge (villain); Brett Halliday; Nazrab; Nazrab's son;
Synopsis: Story takes place in an unnamed foreign location where American businessman Halliday hires The Wedge to create labor unrest so that he can buy a factory mill for little money.
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Pages: 13
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: sports
Character(s): Heinz Grohr (German boxer); Pat Manton (British boxer); Jim O'Leary; Rube Rappaport
Synopsis: Set in 1946 Berlin, a Jewish-American occupation soldier attempts to thwart the comeback of Nazi German boxer Heinz Grohr.
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Pages: 7
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Emiliano Zapata: The Unconquered

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Kubert
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Character(s): Emiliano Zapata
Synopsis: Zapata biography
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Pages: 10
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The Story of the Maccabees

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The Story of Gideon

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Genres: religious
Character(s): Gideon
Synopsis: Gideon leads the Jews out of hiding to repel the Midianites out of Palestine.
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Death in the Sky

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Writer(s): ? [as Wes & Burry]
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Challenger Club of Thunderrock [Bob; Red; Bill; Joe]
Synopsis: The Challengers discover a hidden airfield runway that is being used by a gang of bank robbers to make their getaways.
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Pages: 13
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Terror Tracks

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Genres: crime
Character(s): Bill Day [The Challenger]; the mayor; Mr. Krale; Mr. Pence; Mr. Yates; Guy "Gimpy" Gordon
Synopsis: The Challenger is brought in to stop violence during a citywide subway strike as scabs and goons cause trouble on the rails.
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Pages: 9
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Attention Challengers

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Genres: opinion
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Disclose Notes: Mail in coupon and pledge for joining the Challenger Clubs of America and organizing local club chapters. Appears on back cover.

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