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Issue: Challengers of the Unknown #15
Publication Date: August 1960
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Issues: #15 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 Comics Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/14/1960
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 16 (5 stories, 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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The Lady Giant and the Beast!

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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): June Robbins; Challengers of the Unknown [Ace Morgan; Rocky Davis; Prof Haley; Red Ryan]
First Line: June has become a giant--she saved us in the nick of time!
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In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents Challengers of the Unknown #1 published December 2006
as Challengers of the Unknown #15 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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First Line: The world's greatest molder of handsome he-man and champs out of weaklings says...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The Return of Multi-Man

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]; Duncan Pramble [Multi-Man]; Gurk; prison guards; Central American natives
First Line: Jump, Rocky! Grab the rope ladder!
Synopsis: Multi-Man survives an explosion which gives him super-strength. He escapes prison and meets with Gurk, who wants Multi-Man to help him collect parts of a statue. After Multi-Man steals a part of the statue, the Challs follow him to Central America where Gurk and Multi-Man have gone for the last piece of the statue. The Challs revert Pramble to his normal form, as Gurk uses the statue to unlock a lost tribal treasure. Escaping, Pramble is speared by natives and emerges as a super-genius in a frail body with a giant head. But the natives help capture Gurk and Multi-Man and reclaim the treasure.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Hundred Plus Comic #50 published October 1960
as The Return of Multi-Man [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents Challengers of the Unknown #1 published December 2006
as The Return of Multi-Man [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 11.67
Disclose Notes: Multi-Man does return often as the Challs' arch-enemy, plaguing them with his super-brain AND morphing powers.
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Feature(s): World's Finest Comics
First Line: This famous symbol is your guarantee...
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Pages: 0.33
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Wait till they see my steel robot that talks!
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Superman says... "Lend a Friendly Hand!"

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Genres: opinion, superhero
Character(s): Superman; Sandor
First Line: Aw, Jim, we don't want Sandor along.
Synopsis: Superman advises two boys to welcome war refugees like Sandor. Commemorates the United Nations World Refugee Year.
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Disclose Notes: This PSA is produced in sequential comics-art style.
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Presenting the Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told!

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Genres: superhero
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Disclose Notes: House ad for the first DC Annual, Superman Annual (1960 series) #1.
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Strategy for Survival

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: adventure
First Line: Here and there, a reflected shaft of sunlight picked out the exotic underwater flora and schools of fish swimming by.
Synopsis: Two deep-sea scientists in a bathysphere are attacked by a giant octopus.
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In Content Item: FlagSuper DC Giant #S-25 published July 1971
as Strategy for Survival [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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The Lady Giant and the Beast

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]; June Robbins; citizens; a microbe beast
First Line: It's June! She's become a giant--and doesn't recognize us!
Synopsis: Alone in Challenger Mountain, June experiments on space spores brought to Earth by a balloon. They explode and she blacks out. The Challs return to find June is giant-sized and hostile, trying to crush them, but she passes out. Another menace is a huge red dragon-beast menacing a local town. June revives, sensible again, and grapples the monster. The beast avoided crossing a stream, so the Challs commandeer a fire truck and hose it. The beast shrinks to nothingness. It was actually a microbe monster!
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In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents Challengers of the Unknown #1 published December 2006
as The Lady Giant and the Beast [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 12.67
Disclose Notes: The story may have been inspired by the 1958 Science Fiction film "Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman".
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First Line: Be my guest at Palisades Amusement Park, New Jersey.
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Genres: non-fiction, science and technology
First Line: If our sun were replaced by the nearest star...
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First Line: Do you want spending money?
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First Line: Big enough for 2-3 kids!
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First Line: Two complete armies -- the blues and the greys!
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First Line: Boys! Girls! Ladies! Men! Win a beautiful signet ring engraved with your own initial
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Disclose Notes: Sold by Wilson Chemical Co.
Inside back cover.
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First Line: These prizes without cost or take cash profits as a member of American Youth Sales Club
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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