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Issue: Challengers of the Unknown #82
Publication Date: August 1977
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Issues: #82 of 87 Issues (90 Printings)
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Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/24/1977
Volume: 16
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893045309
Price: $0.35 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 7 (4 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #143.
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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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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
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Pages: 1
Job Number: C-486
Disclose Notes: Color credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
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Chapter 1: The Lurker Below

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Dr. Heathcliff Monroe (villain)
Synopsis: Prof is dying of an all-consuming fungus infection. Rocky, June, Ace, and Red rush him to their jet. Gaylord Clayburne, playboy-Challenger-wannabe, learned Prof was sick and found a specialist to heal him. Ignoring Clayburne, the Challengers zoom off to Perdition, Pennsylvania, a farm town. As soon as they land, the Challengers are mobbed by farmers with pitchforks. Doctor Monroe calls off the farmers.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: J-4624
Disclose Notes: Continued from last issue. The villain is Heathcliff Monroe (an HP Lovecraft look-alike) from Swamp Thing (DC series, 1972) #8.
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Chapter 2: Legacy of the Damned

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Dr. Heathcliff Monroe (villain); cultists (villains); tractor salesman; Abraham (in flashback); M'Nagalah (in flashback)
Synopsis: Dr. Monroe relates the town's history to the Challengers. Seventy years ago, a man summoned a demon to the town. Enthralled, the locals sacrificed strangers to the “god” until Swamp Thing came to town and collapsed its cave, burying the monster “forever”. Behind the scenes, we see the fungus lived on and still infects many locals. Doctor Monroe needs special medical equipment from a doctor in Borotavia behind the Iron Curtain in order to save Prof's life. Red and Ace zoom off in the jet again, leaving June and Rocky in the town.
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Disclose Notes: The tractor salesman resembles Richard Nixon. The flashback is from Swamp Thing (DC, 1972 series) #8.
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Chapter 3: The Soul Predator

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): M'Nagalah; cultists (villains); tractor salesman (death)
Synopsis: Red and Ace zoom off in the jet again. In Borotavia, they knock out some guards, out-fly jets, and get the blood filter machine. Meanwhile, in Perdition, the locals capture a visiting tractor salesman. Rocky and June, creeped out and worried about Prof, wander around, looking at Dr. Monroe's library, which is full of occult books. They hear the salesman’s screams and see him sacrificed to a tentacled horror. Both interrupt the sacrifice and are cold-cocked
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Disclose Notes: The tractor salesman is a dead ringer for former president Richard Nixon.
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Chapter 4: The Lurker Rises

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Dr. Heathcliff Monroe (villain); M'Nagalah (misspelled as "M'Nagala"); cultists (villains); Jason Monroe (in flashback, cousin of Heathcliff Monroe)
Synopsis: Rocky awakes bound to a post. Monroe confesses he’s also infected with the fungus because it’s actually a manifestation of the god M'Nagalah! Monroe leaves for another sacrifice. Rocky glimpses someone in the shadows. Rocky bursts his bonds and meets Ace and Red, who have returned witht he equipment. In the church, they freeze, because June is the next sacrifice!
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: biography
Feature(s): Challenger Mountain Mail Room
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Job Number: L-700
Disclose Notes: Text article with biographical info on Mike Netzer.
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Volume 77 Issue 21 - Week of May 23, 1977

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