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| Date | | Number: 4 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Notes | Scanned by Narfstar from a very damaged and incomplete book, now upgraded c2c with fill pages very kindly provided by Frank Motler. edits by Dave H.The fc and bc are from HA. There is more information about this book at the bottom of the page | |||
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| Additional Information | |
| Name | The Challenger 4 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: quarterly |
| Cover | Okay K.O. / 1 page |
| Synopsis | Two boxers are fighting. |
| Genre | Sports |
| Characters | Heinz Grohr; Rube Rappaport |
| Comic Story | The Whirlwind (12 pages) |
| Synopsis | A football story where some of the white players of Jordan College pull a dirty prank on the only colored player (Wilson) which backfires and results in Wilson getting into the big game as their only hope for an upset victory against arch-rival Benson College. |
| Genre | Sports |
| Characters | Whirlwind Wilson; Coach Tom Lee; Team Captain Dick Lambert; Mike Durant; Kelly; Sally Braden; Dan Giles |
| Notes | Story begins on inside front cover without color. The initials JKD appear on a radio microphone, perhaps the artist? |
| Comic Story | Casbah Cabal (13 pages) |
| Synopsis | Story takes place in an unnamed foreign location where American businessman Halliday hires The Wedge to create labor unrest so that he can buy a factory mill for little money. |
| Feature | The Wedge |
| Characters | The Wedge (villain); Brett Halliday; Nazrab; Nazrab's son; |
| Comic Story | Okay K.O. (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Set in 1946 Berlin, a Jewish-American occupation soldier attempts to thwart the comeback of Nazi German boxer Heinz Grohr. |
| Genre | Sports |
| Characters | Heinz Grohr (German boxer); Pat Manton (British boxer); Jim O'Leary; Rube Rappaport |
| Comic Story | Emiliano Zapata: The Unconquered (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Zapata biography |
| Pencils | Joe Kubert |
| Characters | Emiliano Zapata |
| Text Article | The Story of the Maccabees (1 page) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Text Story | The Story of Gideon (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Gideon leads the Jews out of hiding to repel the Midianites out of Palestine. |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Religious |
| Characters | Gideon |
| Comic Story | Death in the Sky (13 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Challengers discover a hidden airfield runway that is being used by a gang of bank robbers to make their getaways. |
| Script | ? [as Wes & Burry] |
| Pencils | ? [as Wes & Burry] |
| Letters | ?; typeset |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | Challenger Club of Thunderrock [Bob; Red; Bill; Joe] |
| Notes | All the lettering within the word balloons and captions is typeset. |
| Comic Story | Terror Tracks (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Challenger is brought in to stop violence during a citywide subway strike as scabs and goons cause trouble on the rails. |
| Genre | Crime |
| Characters | Bill Day [The Challenger]; the mayor; Mr. Krale; Mr. Pence; Mr. Yates; Guy "Gimpy" Gordon |
| Notes | Story ends on the inside back cover without color. |
| Activity | Attention Challengers (1 page) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Advocacy |
| Notes | Mail in coupon and pledge for joining the Challenger Clubs of America and organizing local club chapters. Appears on back cover. |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution License. More details about this comic may be available in their page here | |
