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Issue: Challengers of the Unknown #84

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Publication Date: December 1977

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Issues: #84 of 87 Issues (90 Printings)

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Brand: DC [bullet]

Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 09/20/1977

Volume: 16

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0709893045301

Price: $0.35 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 7 (2 stories, 1 cover)

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Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #148.

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Format

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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Content Items (7 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

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Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

First Line: The Swamp Thing has gone berserk--

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Deadman #6 published October 1985
as Challengers of the Unknown #84 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 1

Notes: Color credit provided by Anthony Tollin.

The Cuckoo Cuckoos

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Genres: superhero

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover.

Chapter 1: To Save a Monster

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Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Synopsis: Perdition lies in ruins. Prof is infected with an alien fungus. Swamp Thing watches from cover, is attacked by a wolf, but brushes it off. The wolf is possessed by Deadman, who asks Rama Kushna why he's here. "Follow the Challengers." Back at Challenger Mountain, the heroes can't cure Prof's disease. Angry, Ace orders Gaylord to take a walk; he walks.

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Pages: 7

Job Number: J-4818

Chapter 2: When Deadmen Walk

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Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Synopsis: After Deadman cures him from within, Prof wakes up and reveals that Dr. Alec Holland who helped save him is Swamp Thing and needs help. Deadman finds Swamp Thing but can't enter him as he's already possessed. Deadman returns to possess Ace and announces that Swamp Thing is in Philadelphia, where he is under the control of and releasing Duncan Pramble, the former Multi-Man. Deadman jumps between the two, causing a psychic explosion freeing Swamp Thing and blowing Pramble's mind. Later back at the mountain, the Challs welcome Swamp Thing to make his home with them.

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Pages: 1

Job Number: L-768

Notes: Letters of comment from Michael Iannico and Chris J. Bonno.

It's a Mystery...

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Letterer(s): typeset

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#23 Bob Layton

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Genres: biography

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Pages: 0.33

Notes: Script: Michael Catron suggests Harris.