Dates
- Cover date
- October-November 1961
- On sale
- August 15, 1961
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Curse of the Golden God · 11.67 pages
When the Challengers go hunting for two lost explorers, Hinton and Jarvis, they find the two men staggering from the jungle demanding gold for Xechulan. They grab gold artifacts - including a sacred shield - and disappear in red smoke. The Challengers split up and look for the men, but when Ace and Rocky find them, Hinton and Jarvis don't remember anything. Hatching a plot, Red and Prof later appear turned into gold from head to toe also demanding gold for Xechulan. But it is a ruse to expose Hinton's and Jarvis's false "possession" story and to return the gold shield to its rightful owners.
- Untitled · 0.5 pages
Doctor Rocket wants to send his latest research report back to Earth, and his assistant has something to send back too.
- The Thing in Challenger Mountain · 12.67 pages
Five time-lost warriors -- a gladiator, a knight, a Babylonian, a cave man, and a viking -- appear in a small town near Challenger Mountain. The Challs battle and subdue the warriors, bringing them back to Challenger Mountain. J’Kal, an alien, who scoops up people from different times and places for his private zoo with the aid of his monster, Monstus, bursts into the headquarters and snare everyone. The Challs are trying to escape when J’Kal and Monstus are nabbed by an alien lawman, who promises to also return the warriors to their own time.
- Wrath of the Big Eye · 1 pages
Reprinted in
Showcase Presents Challengers of the Unknown (2006), The Flash (1959), Mighty Comic (1960)