Thursday, August 23, 2018

Challengers of the Unknown and The Thing in "Stranger Thing!"



The Challengers of the Unknown are another group that I would love to see show up on DC's Legends of Tomorrow, or anywhere really.  I am surprised that they've never made it into any of DC's various shows, live action or animated.  They might be somewhere in the background in Justice League: The New Frontier, but I would have to go back and check.

The Thing first met The Challengers way back in 2011, in a MTIO Lost Issue...

26 comments:

  1. you are talking about the Netflix show "Stranger ThingS"(plural) corret???
    love the use of both Kirby and someone else, but this could have been another all Kirby cover...
    you just can not get enough of those...

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  2. Is that Kryptonite on the Thing?

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  3. "....Turn Me Loose Tonight because I'm RaDiO ActivE... Ra-Dio Ra-Dio AcTivE..." - The FirM.

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  4. Have Mike Grell's: Warlord, & Jon Sable join forces to defeat Matt Wagner's Hunter Rose and Jim Starlin's Lord High Papal.

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  5. How about a Comic Star studded Ben Grim's Poker Party cover with ben as the House/Dealer? In a tale we could only call Read 'Em & Weep.

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  6. Yep, according to this database (http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Justice_League:_The_New_Frontier_(Movie)), Challengers of the Unknown were there at the big battle with the floating island at the end.

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  7. @Ross: The Challs have a cameo appearance in this summer's "TEEN TITANS GO! To The Movies." Unfortunately, it's mostly as comedy relief.

    And the others are right. It looks like Ben has been turned into living kryptonite. Were Ace, Prof, and the others influenced by the Superman Revenge Squad?

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  8. ITEM: Ross, the Challengers of the Unknown were in "New Frontier". Of special note is that Hal Jordan and Ace Morgan were very good friends and flew together often in the war. I don't recall that they had such a large part in the animated movie - but yes, they're there.

    ITEM: Actually, there was a storyline in Marvel Two-In-One where Ben was afflicted with - not Kryptonite poisoning - but Virus X. (Treacherous coincidence, yes.) It deformed him and eventually turned him green. It was in Marvel Two-In-One 81 - 83 and What If- #37.

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  9. The look on Thing's face says it all, "What a revoltin' development."

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  10. The Challengers also appeared in Batman: Brave & the Bold episode, facing Starro.

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  11. It might "only" be Gamma radiation on Ben, rather than Kryptonite radiation: According to Marvel canon, after all, that tends to have green effects.

    Talking of cures, DC has just cured Metamorpho: We'll see how long that lasts...
    ^_^

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  12. I have received a few requests for a Poker Night cover, and it's not a bad idea - but finding multiple characters images that have them seated at a table that could all be combined would be very difficult, maybe impossible.

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  13. Batman: The Brave & The Bold, Season 2, Episode 3, "Revenge of the Reach!" (01 Jan 2010)
    Batman helps the Challengers of the Unknown in a fight against a giant spider on Dinosaur Island. Later, after Batman leaves, the team of heroes are ambushed by a group of Starro clones that came from the crashed meteorite.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fViVcH1RQEI

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  14. With all the liberties the Arrowverse takes with the "minor" characters, I'm not sure I'd want to see the Challs there. We might get stuck with that horrid reality-show version Dido vomited out during the New 52. I could see them, however, in the new Doom Patrol series that's coming to the DC streaming service. The Challs could be an older, all-human, group that have been investigating the type of problems that the DP will be looking at, so you can have some mentor /student or experienced / upstart interactions.

    And for poker night, there is at least one JLA issue during Englehart's run with them playing in the satellite (Hawkwoman cleans them out). And some of the people sitting can be folded and are just leaning back or forward and don't have to have their hands near the table.

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  15. How about an all Jim/James/Jimmy/Jamie issue? James Gordon (Gotham City DC), Jimmy Olsen(Metropolis DC) . Jimmy Woo (Marvel), Jamie the scottish lad (Doctor Who IDW), Jungle Jim (drunken living jungle, (IDW)of the Planet Mongo.), Earthworm JIM, and others.

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  16. Ross, when i read your title hrer ("Stranger Thing") it made me think of that old Batman Annual cover where they showed him wearing all of the peculiar bat-costumes...
    such as Rainbow Batman and Zebra Batman and the all white batsuit and so on and so forth...
    i mean the Thing in similar situations...

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  17. Further to Jay's comment, as long as you have a table, you can have as many characters as you want standing up: watching, on their way to the table, just having leapt up angry, etc.

    And here is a completely unrelated suggestion. The original Captain Marvel and Mighty Mouse.

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  18. Brother Kellymatthew Barnes: If it's the same Jamie, he's actually one of the Second Doctor's Companions on the show.

    And for the Linkara fans out there: Ben Grimm is radioactive! That can't be good!

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  19. jackel said...
    "Ross, when i read your title hrer ("Stranger Thing") it made me think of that old Batman Annual cover where they showed him wearing all of the peculiar bat-costumes...
    such as Rainbow Batman and Zebra Batman and the all white batsuit and so on and so forth...
    i mean the Thing in similar situations..."

    "Love is a many-splendored Thing"
    ^_^

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  20. The sequel to the Mighty Mouse & Captain Marvel: Mighty Mouse, Icon & Rocket (Milestone), then Icon & Rocket team up with Blue Falcon & Dynomutt"!". "Three Is A Magic Number" - SchoolHouse RocK.

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  21. SIDE TRIP: I miss The Sea Devils (DC), Nemesis The balancer of Justice (DC back up feature in The Brave & The Bold, He was the only reason I bought the tittle truth be told) & the Star Warsy Starman (DC) of 1978 or 1979, you know blonde (or maybe you don't?) had a mentor named mentor (or close to it.), sole survivor of a Galactic Royal Family Solar energy bands that were replaced by Mentor's staff when his outfit's color scheme changed from red to blue. SIDE TRIP Concluded.

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  22. Prince Gavyn's mentor was spelled Mn'Torr if I remember correctly.

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  23. What if this Thing is actually a long-lost friend of the Martian Manhunter's called...B'nn G'rmmm?

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  24. It's more likely J'onn's long-lost brother. R'kkardo J'onzz!

    [See Fantastic Four v.I/#50).

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