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Issue Details

Issue #34
Published October-November 1963
Cover Price 0.12
Pages 36
Editing Murray Boltinoff
Notes Learn more about the Challengers at www.challengersoftheunknown.com.

Cover Details - "Multi-Woman, Queen of Disaster!"

Characters Ace Morgan; Red Ryan; Prof Haley; Rocky Davis; Multi-Man; Multi-Woman
Genre Super Hero; Adventure; Hero Team
Pencils Bob Brown
Inks Bob Brown
Notes Learn more about the Challengers at www.challengersoftheunknown.com.

10 page Challengers of the Unknown story "Beachhead, U.S.A."

Characters Ace Morgan; Rocky Davis; Prof Haley; Red Ryan; (Challengers of the Unknown); U-Boat Nazis.
Synopsis In a storm off Cape Cod, the Challengers chase a science buoy. It picked up strange sounds. The cable snaps. Ace and Rocky dive in frogman suits. They find a big Nazi sub drifting on the bottom. Inside, they find the Nazi crew - in suspended animation for 20 years! The Nazis awaken and capture the Challengers - and push on with their mission. Launching a PT boat, they plant a super-bomb ashore. The Challengers fight back and reach shore. Prof, who speaks German, heard they were on a secret mission to blow up the Eastern seaboard after the war. And here they come charging the Challengers in a reverse D-Day! With captured weapons, the Challengers shoot back while Prof tries to disarm the bomb. Out of ammo, Rocky rushes and is captured - as he wanted. Aboard, he slugs his guards, steals the PT boat, and rams the sub! The bomb is disarmed. The Challengers fought the last battle of World War II - twenty years after it ended!
Genre Adventure; Hero Team
Script France Ed Herron
Pencils Bob Brown
Inks Bob Brown
Notes The Nazis speak German without translation. Writer credit in issue 36.

15 page Challengers of the Unknown story "Multi-Woman, Queen of Disaster!"

Characters Ace Morgan; Rocky Davis; Prof Haley; Red Ryan; (Challengers of the Unknown); Multi-Man; Multi-Woman I
Synopsis Multi-Man has broken jail, and the Challengers worry where he'll turn up. Soon they learn. Multi-Man launched a rocket with a death ray into space. He threatens to destroy property unless he gets his demands: his own recognized country where crime can run rampant! Meanwhile, the would-be tyrant is lonely. He builds a "queen", a giant female robot, then drinks Liquid Light to become a giant himself. When the Challengers finally track him down, Prof tries to dash the Liquid-Light antidote in his face, but is slapped down. There's more: Multi-Man introduces Multi-Woman! She can mechanically morph into a fish, grow wings and fly, flame on and hurl fireballs. The Challengers dodge her as they finally splash Multi-Man with antidote. He shrinks to a big-dome dwarf. Multi-Woman is disgusted at this "small and ugly" wretch. When she tries to kill Multi-Man, the villain appeals to the Challengers for help! Ace has an idea to catch this too-real woman. Returning from the city, Ace drops a giant diamond necklace. What woman can resist diamonds? But when Multi-Woman wears it, Prof throws a switch. Ultrasonic vibrations rattle Multi-Woman to flinders. And Multi-Man got away!
Genre Super Hero; Adventure; Hero Team
Script Arnold Drake?
Pencils Bob Brown
Inks Bob Brown
Notes Writer id by Bob Hughes. The stories from this point become more traditional superhero-supervillain fights, as opposed to earlier adventures into the unknown. Much later, Kilowog builds a Multi-Woman III (CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN MUST DIE).