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Characters: Everyone in the DCU including the Challengers of the Unknown. Synopsis: A free-form story ranges across the DCU, through time and space. It deals with magic, alien invasions, and alternate realities - including a WWII where Germany won and the Challengers of the Unknown are Nazi stormtroopers! Note the big question mark on the cover: a theme for each issue. "Can you solve it before we do?" |
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This story takes place outside the DCU. It was a just-for-fun effort where every DC creator got to participate. One team started a rambling story and passed it on, for twelve issues. Chaotic but fun. And every hero DC ever created gets a bit part. In DC Challenge 9, Blackhawk, Enemy Ace, and Woozy Winks (possessed by Deadman) look for a spaceship. They spot it being hauled away by a giant tank-hauler. The guys operating the tank look familiar - with disturbing additions.  |
The purple-clad stormtroopers jump on jet-sleds and attack Blackhawk's and Enemy Ace's planes.  |
Eventually the visitors are taken prisoner. For certain we're in an alternate reality - where Hitler won World War II. The Challengers are Nazis!  And there we leave our heroes-turned-villains for this issue. |
In DC Challenge 10... With all the confusion, it's not surprising that the next creator team fumbles the ball. Yes, Blackhawk, Enemy Ace, and Woozy Winks are still prisoners. But the Nazi-Challs have been overlooked. Here they're just called "Nazi super-soldiers", although there ARE four of them. So perhaps they're still Challengers, but in alternate-alternate uniforms.  Deadman deserts Woozy, bungs up some dimensional machine, and the super-soldiers freeze in their tracks, as does Enemy Ace. Reality has changed. Later the Blackhawks and Woozy are spirited away, and the adventure careens on. Nice to see our favorite heroes weren't forgotten! |