Challengers of the Unknown
V2 Advertisement
The first warning that the Challengers
were going to be "revived" came with this ad posted
in various comics. Sandman 24 was one.
This new tack was not considered
good news by Chall fans. The then-current trend at DC, after
the success of The Dark Knight Returns, was to revive every DC
character to death. To run them through a wringer. At a convention,Tony
Isabella joked that he planned to "revive" Black Lightning
as a child-molesting pimp with AIDS. Bob Ingersoll noted that
DC's future-space heroes - Space Ranger, Star Hawkins, Tommy
Tomorrow - had been desecrated by Howard Chaykin. "Now it's
the Challengers turn in the barrel."
The art alone is off-putting. Ace
looks like a zombie. Red is yelling, Rocky screaming. And Prof
- by process of elimination, we deduce it's he - looks like Larry
of the Three Stooges. Oh, boy.
This ad may have run in color in
some DC comic. If so, ye webmaster has never found it.
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