| Issue | #41 |
| Published | December 1964 - January 1965 |
| Cover Price | 0.12 |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Murray Boltinoff |
| Notes | Learn more about the Challengers at www.challengersoftheunknown.com. |
| Characters | Ace Morgan; Rocky Davis; Prof Haley; Red Ryan; the Quadruple Man |
| Genre | Super Hero; Adventure; Hero Team |
| Pencils | Bob Brown |
| Inks | Bob Brown |
| Notes | Learn more about the Challengers at www.challengersoftheunknown.com. |
| Characters | Ace Morgan; Rocky Davis; Prof Haley; Red Ryan; (Challengers of the Unknown); Dr. Burke, Dr. Hanford. Villains: The Quadruple Man and Fear. |
| Synopsis | In mid-city (likely Boulder, Colorado), a massive face-castle structure appears out of thin air. The Challengers human-ladder climb and find it's a maze. They plant a bomb to blow it up, but the walls shift and trap them. The Challengers dive, the place explodes - and no trace of the castle remains. Rocky is rocked, hearing 'way-out music'. At HQ, Rocky announces he's quitting the Challengers to box - then collapses! He confesses: since the explosion, he's had wicked headaches. He'll quit rather than drag the team down. Ace, Red, and Prof have to run after a new apparition: the four-headed Quadruple Man. Rocky slips out. But in town, a TV shows his pals battling Q-Man, and some kids call him a quitter. Rocky returns to HQ. Q-Man vanishes. Rocky's doctor arrives with X-rays. Rocky has a metal sliver embedded in his skull. It throbs when the apparitions are near - so it's a homing device for the signals! Flying, circling, Rocky's pain increases as they find a weird castle. Inside a dead man is slumped over a console wearing a strange helmet. Notes show Dr. Burke invented a helmet to turn thoughts into matter, in hope of conquering man's debilitating emotions. The castle represented Frustration. The Quadruple Man represented man's weaknesses: Hate, Greed, Envy, and Revenge. And through the door bursts a ghostly Fear! Fear bowls the Challs flat, but Ace tugs on the helmet and imagines four ghost-Challengers. One punch and Fear collapses. And Rocky's pain is gone! |
| Genre | Super Hero; Adventure; Hero Team |
| Script | France Ed Herron |
| Pencils | Bob Brown |
| Inks | Bob Brown |
| Characters | Ace Morgan; Rocky Davis; Prof Haley; Red Ryan; (Challengers of the Unknown). |
| Synopsis | On a routine mission, Prof takes a new mini-sub to shake rocks off a ledge that threaten an oil rig. A seaquake avalanche traps his sub. Prof can't ditch the bomb, which will explode in two hours. Ace lowers a cable and hook, but gets the bends, then the cable snaps. Red rappels down the seamount to trigger another bomb, but is rattled off. Prof asks Rocky to quit rather than get hurt. Rocky screams, “Think!” Prof recalls other times they were trapped, by a Cyclops and the Flying Fishman. Rocky swung from a balloon and knocked - That’s it! Rocky swings the ship’s anchor cable and knocks the rocks free. Prof ditches the bomb and they zoom clear as the bomb explodes! Rocky jokes, "We outran death by a few seconds - which puts us right on schedule". |
| Genre | Super Hero; Adventure; Hero Team |
| Script | France Ed Herron |
| Pencils | Bob Brown |
| Inks | Bob Brown |
| Notes | Writer id by Martin O'Hearn. "A Legion of Death Cheaters Special!" This story is an expansion of a non-Challengers text page with the same title that appeared in an earlier issue. The Flying Fishman adventure is not recorded elsewhere. |
| Reprinted | in Challengers of the Unknown (DC, 1958 series) #60 |