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 Genie Who Feared June"
Pages: 12

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

Artist: Bob Brown

Reprinted From:
Challengers of the Unknown #17 (1960)

Feature Character(s)

• Challengers of the Unknown (last appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #16; next appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #17)
• Ace Morgan (last appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #16; next appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #17)
• Rocky Davis (last appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #16; next appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #17)
• Red Ryan (last appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #16; next appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #17)
• Prof. Haley (last appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #16; next appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #17)

Supporting Character(s)

• June Robbins (last appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #16; next appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #18)

Villain(s)

• Malvolio and his gang (no further appearances)
• Ahmed (a genie; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
While shopping, June and Ace encounter a giant genie robbing a bank. The pair contacts the other Challengers and trail the genie to the clay pits outside of town. They see a magician, Malvolio, conjure up the genie. The Challs are no match for the genie’s power, but June scares it away, repeating Malvolio’s incantation.

When the Challs meet the genie again, each member trys repeating the incantation as June did, but only June seems to have any effect on it. The genie and Malvolio escape again, only to reencounter the Challs at their next robbery.

This time Ace is able to affect the genie, and banish it forever. The Genie was vulnerable to June’s opal ring which frightened it away.