Comic Title: Showcase Presents Challengers of the Unknown Vol. 1 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2006
On Sale Date: October 18, 2006 Direct Market Date September 27, 2006
Source: Previews, Vol. 16 #6 (#210)

Direct Market Date October 18, 2006
Source: Usenet, New Releases List for Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 544
Editor: Bob Joy

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Prisoner of the Tiny Space Ball"
Pages: 12

Feature(s):
Challengers of the Unknown (of Earth-1)

Artist: Bob Brown

Reprinted From:
Challengers of the Unknown #13 (1960)

Feature Character(s)

• Challengers of the Unknown (last appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #12; next appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #13)
• Ace Morgan (last appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #12; next appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #13)
• Rocky Davis (last appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #12; next appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #13)
• Red Ryan (last appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #12; next appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #13)
• Prof. Haley (last appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #12; next appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #13)

Villain(s)

• Dakyab and his followers (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Zanna and his followers (Vraba and Benrun named; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
The Challengers find a tiny satellite that has crashed near their mountain headquarters. Inside is a tiny ball. An alien craft lands nearby, and its occupant steals the ball from the Challs. He is quickly captured and the ball opened to reveal another man.

The man inside the ball is Zanna, the deposed leader of the planet Ak-Sel. An evil scientist, Dakyab, has taken over Zanna’s planet and imprisoned him inside the ball. The other man is Vraba, a follower of Zanna, who was sent to rescue his leader. The Challs agree to accompany the men back to their world.

The Challs and Zanna land on Ak-Sel in the headquarters of Zanna’s followers. Dakyab sends his troops to recapture the exiled leader, while the Challs and Zanna plan to attack the scientist’s palace. Using a floating island, the rebels are able to defeat Dakyab’s forces. The evil leader is placed in a tiny ball, just as Zanna had been. When order has been restored, the Challs return to Earth.