WHY COLLECTORS WANT IT
- Darius Tiko (The Wizard of Time) — first appearance
Dates
- Cover date
- October-November 1958
- On sale
- August 14, 1958
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Chapter 1: The Wizard of Time · 5.67 pages
When a group of men dressed as ancient Greek soldiers attempts to steal a plane, one is captured. The Challengers are brought in to investigate and find that the captured soldier only wishes to return to the "Island of the Wizard." The soldier leads the Challs to this island where they meet Darius Tiko, who experiments with time travel. Confronted, the scientist disappears in a time cube but the Challs and the soldier follow in another cube, to track down Tiko and recover his stolen technology.
- Chapter II: The Men Who Rode Across the Sun · 4.67 pages
Having split up, Ace and Rocky are looking for Tiko and his stolen technology in ancient Greece where they are accused by an oracle of being messengers of ill omen. They run from the Greeks, find Tiko's stolen plane, and crash it near where they hope Prof and Red will return with their time cube.
- Chapter III: The Sorcerer's Sect · 6.67 pages
In Egypt, Prof and Red destroy Tiko's stolen telescope, reunite with Rocky and Ace, and head to the 15th century to find Nostradamus and Tiko, but Tiko has already met the seer and gone.
- Cosmic Time Bomb · 1 pages
- Untitled · 1 pages
Doctor Rocket gets a tour on an alien city covered with a giant glass dome where nothing gets done on Tuesdays. On Tuesday everybody in the city spends the day washing the glass roof.
- Chapter IV: The Mechanical Judge · 6.67 pages
The Challengers find Tiko in the year 3,000 AD, but all are arrested and submitted to the judgment of a machine, which dismisses all charges and sends them back to their own time (in one cube) for Tiko to face justice.
Characters
Reprinted in
Mighty The 100-Page Comic! (1957), Challengers of the Unknown (1960), Super DC Giant (1970), Challengers of the Unknown Archives (2003), Showcase Presents Challengers of the Unknown (2006), Challengers of the Unknown by Jack Kirby (2012), Challengers of the Unknown by Jack Kirby (2017), Five-Score Comic Monthly (1958)