Four issues. Every story chosen because it pointed at something real. These are not parables. They are the world of 1945 and 1946, rendered in ink and four colors, for a dime.
The debut. Undated and unpriced — likely distributed through churches and progressive networks. The rarest of the four. E.C. Stoner leads the book with what may be the first story in mainstream American comics to center a Black man as a straightforward, unambiguous hero.
The most studied issue, because of who drew it: Joe Kubert, approximately eighteen or nineteen years old. A CGC-graded copy in Very Fine condition sold at Heritage Auctions in July 2023. Overstreet 2024 values VF 8.0 at $742.
The fullest issue. 68 pages of illustrated features, biography, comedy strips, reader letters, and an 18-page Kubert feature. The back cover is devoted to the Challenger Clubs of America membership pledge. Free to read online now.
The last issue. Published as postwar America was shifting its fears from fascism to Communism. The book didn't know that. It went out the same way it came in. Free to read online now.