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Challengers of New Earth

Villains United, Infinite Crisis

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Challengers of the 21st Century

The Infinite Crisis of 2006 rocks the DC Universe.  Worlds are created and destroyed, the dead return to the life, the cosmos itself gets shredded. And out of the mix comes New Earth. (Infinite Crisis and others.)
 
On a smallest scale, the Secret Society of Super-Villains cracks every prison on the planet to release every super-villain imaginable as their tools.  Non-super criminals get sworn in as muscle. Alcatraz.  Arkham Asylum.  Prisons in Central America, England, Vietnam, and everywhere else. Including Blackgate Prison, on an island off Gotham City, New Jersey.  Blackgate is for metahuman villains who are NOT insane. (Villians United: Infinite Crisis Special 1.)


All the major superheroes are busy.  Barbara Gordon/Oracle calls in every second-string and non-superhero by hacking their phones and computers and even their masks.  And she gets the Manhunter from Mars to link everyone telepathically. (Villians United: Infinite Crisis Special 1.)

This ragtag army pile of minor superheroes tries to knock escaping prisoners back into their cells.  Including two Challengers. (Villians United: Infinite Crisis Special 1.)

Rocky Davis (face unseen and hair miscolored) and Prof Haley are pounding perps. Ace and June can't be too far away.  And the young Challs? Dunno. (Villians United: Infinite Crisis Special 1.)

The Challs have either ordered new uniforms or just new jackets with hourglass logos on the back and sleeve.  The logos are in brown (strange choice) framed in black, on purple.  (Or is this a coloring error too?)

When last we saw our heroes, they were trying to get back to Hypertime to rescue Red. A bigger emergency popped up, and is likely to pop for a while.

Blackgate Prison is barely contained before the Challengers rush off to The Battle of Metropolis (Infinite Crisis 7). Rocky trades shots with supervillains, and we assume his buddies are close by.

Out of left field, the Challengers are fingered as "The Men Who Were Not There" who broke the Book of Destiny!  (Brave and Bold (2007) 4.)  Batman, Supergirl, Green Lantern, Lobo, and others are hot on their trail...

<>Green Lantern, Adam Strange, and a pile of heroes try to prevent the Rann-Thanagar War from dragging on for a thousand years.  The war is engineered by the Luck Lords, who stole The Book of Destiny.  Batman pulls his ace in the hole: there are four men who are NOT in The Book because they should have died.  "They call themselves the Challengers of the Unknown."  Who get snatched from Earth to Rann.  Since their actions can't be predicted, the Challs turn the tide and scotch the Luck Lords.  Adam Strange entrusts The Book of Destiny to our heroes, and they're shot back to Earth.  (Brave and Bold 6)

Thus begins a new chapter in the "destiny" of the Challengers, as guardians of the most powerful artifact in the known universe...

<>When Wonder Woman and Power Girl save Superman, the Challs read about it as "current history".  Prof's still not sure what he should find, but the name "Megistus" appears again - but before they can investigate, a stampede of extinct animals tears up downtown Phoenix.  The Challs are off!  (Brave and Bold 7)


Stay tuned...