A few months ago, Scourge mentioned in an article about the "Unknown Challengers" of the explorer team in the DC Universe, but he didn't write about it. A few weeks ago, a friend left a message for Misfortune reminding him of it.
The Challengers of the Unknow was created by "The King" Kirby and first appeared in the 1957 comic strip The Window
Marvel's Fantastic Four has a special meaning for Marvel, and the birth of the Fantastic Four is an important turning point in Marvel Comics and the beginning of the rise of Marvel. And the unknown challenger is one of the inspirations for the Fantastic Four.
Stan Lee often argues with Jack Bryant about who contributed more to the creation of the Fantastic Four. The Fantastic Four's comics are very similar to the unknown challenger from concept to composition.
Even the costumes are almost identical. The truth speaks for itself.
Challengers of the Unknown are not superheroes, they are a group of explorers who explore the "unknown challenges" of humanity.
But being in the DC universe inevitably brings you to superheroes, and in the later comics, the Challenger Unknown has repeatedly teamed up with heroes and teams such as the Doom Patrol, the Dead, the Swamp Monsters, and the Sea Devils (who are the inspiration for another Fantastic Four**).
Let's talk about the "unknown challenger" of the DC explorer team.
Once, Olympic wrestling champion Lester "Rocky" Davis, dive master "Professor" Walter Haley, circus adventurer Matthew Ryan and combat hero and pilot Kyle Morgan were on their way to the "Hero" radio show when the plane got caught in a storm and crashed.
The four survived the crash and agreed that they should come together "on borrowed time" for an unknown adventure. Thus, the four of them formed the Unknown Challenger of the Explorer team.
With the activity of unknown challengers, they often made newspaper headlines, making them quickly famous.
Joan Robbins is a female scientist with a passion for science who created an early artificial intelligence, the ultivac. But Ultivac begins to oppose the humans, and an unknown challenger helps Joan defeat Ultivac.
The unknown challenger invites Joan to become an honorary member of the team.
Unknown Challenger has established a base in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, "Challenger Mountain".
Unknown challengers take on the "unknown challenges" of various people such as the Pentagon and mad scientists, and encounter all kinds of "things" such as elves, criminals, fantasy monsters, aliens, and robots.
In the 1957 comic Challengers of the Unknown 55, Matthew Ryan sacrifices his life by detonating a bomb that destroys the base of the League of Challenger Hatages.
After Matthew's death, Matthew's younger brother, singer Tino Mannare (real name Martin Ryan), retaliated against the unknown challenger, whom he blamed for his brother's death. After several incidents, Tino clears up a misunderstanding with an unknown challenger.
After several incidents, Tino clears up the misunderstanding with the unknown challenger, and they go on a lot of adventures together.
In Challenger Unknown 60, Matthew Ryan is back. Matthew survived in ** because of a transformation potion, he became very huge, but he lost his memory. Matthew believed himself to be the god Tiki and nearly conquered the Pacific Ocean.
During an encounter with an unknown challenger and his younger brother, a ** makes Matthew fully recover.
In Challenger Unknown 69, the Challenger Unknown defeats a monster created by mad scientist Algernon Stark in a castle, and Algernon is furious and shoots Walter Haley "The Professor".
Algernon's daughter, Corinna Stark, instructed the unknown challenger to use the cryogenic chamber to save the professor's life.
After that, Corinna joined the unknown challenger as a substitute for the professor.
The intersection of unknown challengers and superheroes was first in the 1966 comic book Challengers of the Unknown 48. The unknown challenger is injected with ** poison by the old enemy "Challenger Haters Alliance". The Doom Patrol rescues the unknown challenger.
The Chief detoxified them.
The two teams teamed up to defeat the Challenger Haters League.
Soon after, the Unknown Challenger teamed up with the Sea Devils to defeat SpongeMan and the criminal organization Scorpio.
In the 1999 comic Superboy v4 63-65, Superboy discovers the long-missing challenger in the ultra-time stream. The unknown challenger has been battling a variant of Superman, Black Zero.
After defeating Black Zero, the unknown challenger and Superboy return to New Earth. But in the process of traversing the flow of time, Matthew gets lost in the flow of time. And Joan Robbins swapped with a man named Joan Walker.
The Unknown Challenger vows to explore the "Greater Unknown" super-time stream to retrieve Matthew.
During the mega event Infinite Crisis, two challengers take part in the event, with Loki and the Professor helping the heroes stop the prisoners from escaping from the Black Gate Prison.
Loki also participated in the final Battle of Metropolis, where he fought valiantly against the villains.
After the end of the big event, the unknown challenger and heroine aura works in a space station, scanning for those heroes who got lost in space during the big event.
In the 2007 manga Valorant and Dauntless v3, Endless Destiny discovers that four people are missing from the Book of Destiny, which should not have happened, causing the time continuum to be unstable.
Fate rips off the chains that lock her to the Book of Destiny and gives the Book of Destiny to Supergirl, so that Supergirl and Rob can find the missing person in the Book of Destiny and repair the Book of Destiny.
Batman learns the situation from Supergirl and deduces that the four missing people in the Book of Destiny are "unknown challengers" who live outside the boundaries of fate.
After the unknown challenger helps the heroes defeat Megistos, who turned Earth into a genetic laboratory, the Book of Destiny is repaired and returned to Endless Destiny.
After the big event "Flashpoint" in 2011 restarted the DC universe, the unknown challenger has actually changed very much. In the latest manga "The Outsider" v5 2, whose cover date is 2024, it is reintroduced to a similar original setting.
After a plane crash, Leslie "Rocky" Davis convinces the other three survivors to form the "Heroic Two-Fisted Explorers."
They are hired by a mystery client to open a Pandora's box and sign a lucrative contract with the Pentagon to help the Pentagon eliminate the global elven threat.
Later, their base, Challenger Mountain, occurred, killing hundreds of people, including two Challenger members. With Superman's intervention, the team was reorganized into a new challenger.
And originally, after the restart, the unknown challenger team in the DC Universe was a completely unfamiliar team.
Archaeologist Clay Brody founded a reality TV show called Challenger. As a result, the plane in which he was traveling with the people who participated in the show, as well as the producers and pilots, crashed in the Himalayas.
Several people recuperated in the mysterious Nanda Parbat, and the elders told them to beware of the unknown, but also to challenge the unknown.
A few weeks later, several people were re-seen at the scene of the plane crash. The driver's ace found an amulet in the materiel, which seemed to have mysterious powers.
When the rescue *** arrived, a huge monster appeared and attacked several people, and the pilot ace was eaten by the monster in order to protect the amulet.
The few who survived returned to the city. These survivors vowed to find other amulets and save the world. These people become unknown challengers.
Unknown challengers appear in various "far-fart" corners of the world, looking for amulets. All sorts of magical adventures were carried out.
Hawkman recruits the Unknown Challenger, the Red Tornado, the Black Hawk Squadron, etc., to study the Dark Multiverse, and in the end, the Unknown Challenger is trapped in the Dark Multiverse with Hawkman and others.
That's it for the DC Explorers team's unknown challenger.
Finally, I will make a trailer, the last two are Marvel's Sandman and DC's Star Man.