Aventures Fiction #32
"Le péril planétaire" delivers a wild, surreal adventure in Aventures Fiction #32 (1974), a 3,50 FRF comic featuring the Challengers in a bizarre, insectoid nightmare. Written by Robert Kanigher and illustrated by Jack Sparling, with inks also by Sparling, the story plunges the team into Cobra Canyon after a mysterious mental patient’s frantic warnings. Cover by Jack Sparling, the issue blends sci-fi horror and pulpy action as the Challengers face Dread, a monstrous Frankenstein-like alien ruling a colossal ant farm known as the Devil's Circus.
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At a mental hospital, a man shrieks about the Challengers, Cobra Canyon, and the Devil's Circus. The Challs fly to the remote canyon. A will-sapping ray drops the Challs. They're prisoners of Dread, a gigantic Frankenstein-insectoid alien and he drops them into his Devil's Circus, a giant ant farm. All escape, with Dread in pursuit. The Challs lead him into quicksand and then form a human chain to swing free. Dread sinks out of sight. Ace notes, "Ants sometimes band together to help each other!"
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