*DC: What’s Old is our feature where we highlight stuff from our catalogue that you may have missed. This week, a rare opportunity to acquire one of the Jack Kirby issues of Challengers of the Unknown. Jolly Jack drew the Challengers’ earliest adventures, including their four try-out issues in Showcase and the first eight issues of their own series. In this issue, #5, he was joined on inks by the wonderful Wally Wood for a truly dynamic package. An action-packed full-length tale of a super-powered villain, featuring the ‘honorary’ female Challenger June. This superior copy from 1958, pre UK distribution, is bright, tight and flat, with good cover colour, firmly attached staples and nice off white pages. Just minor edge wear brings the grade down, with narrow, barely colour-breaking creasing faintly at the top edge.
PICTURED: CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN #5 FN £105 SOLD