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June's Appearances and History
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June's Appearances and History
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June sits in a restaurant in Boulder when objects begin disappearing. She drives to Challenger Mountain to get the boys. Two alien scientists warn the heroes about Zog, a criminal who has stolen a sky platform. (COTU 23, "The Island In the Sky.") June gets dragged to the island then shunted aside with, "This is man's work."
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June and the Challengers search the Pacific for Multi-Man when the villain's lightning bolt blasts a tropical mountain. MM has his old powers back to conquer the world. (COTU 24, "Multi-Man, Master of Earth.")
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June visits Challenger Mountain one morning when a report comes of a destructive alien. The Challengers and their space-pet Cosmo stop him. (COTU 25, "Captives of the Alien Hunter.") June and the four guys are "on furlough" flying over a forest toward an unnamed vacation spot when they see lightning beings attacking a magician. A magician who proves to be an alien policeman searches for three pods planted by criminals from his planet. They hatch destructive beasts. (COTU 26, "The Secret of the Space Spectaculars.") June is again running an archaeological dig by herself with the Challs helping when she disappears - to ancient Egypt! The Challengers are also sent back in time to solve the mystery of five statues bearing their own and June's likenesses. (COTU 28, "Riddle of the Faceless Man.") This round ends June's real adventures for a while. |
The following appearances are mostly walk-ons. June attends a party held by F. Gaylord Clayburn III when a building collapses across the street. Clayburn "makes like a Challenger" to rescue a dangling man, then tests to join the team. (COTU 30, "The Fifth Challenger.")
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Ace wants to teach the others a lesson about being overconfident a criminal named Jacquard vows to defeat each of the Challengers at their specialties. June is secretly called in for one test, but the whole gang gets a surprise when Jacquard reappears! (COTU 33, "The Challengers Meet Their Master.")
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June cheers on the boys' exhibition at a county or state fair. After the Challengers save a woman from disaster, fortune teller Madame Zaddum treats them to a vision of their possible future. Four "Sons of the Challengers" fight the criminal Flying Fishmen. (COTU 35, "Sons of the Challengers." And COTU 39, "The Phantom of the Fair.") Madame Zaddum prognosticates that June will be married to Ace in the future! |
June stops in to visit Challenger Mountain in her new page-boy haircut. The Challs argue about who should be leader until June proposes they go after the Gargoyle. She gives each a seemingly useless "weapon" to see who's the natural leader. It turns out to be Ace. (COTU 46, "The Best Challenger Wins.") |
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To stop the Challenger-Haters from destroying the Earth with a massive volcanic eruption, Red Ryan triggers a bomb and is killed in action. June is not seen, but she must attend Red's funeral. (COTU 55, "Taps For Red.") |
After this, June is not seen again for a while. Does her work keep her too busy? Does Red's death scare her off? The guys grieve for a while. Likely June stays away. After all, she was never part of the original four. When the Challs finally psyche themselves into going out again, they're both homeless and too slam-bang busy to eat lunch. Then along comes Corinna Stark, who gets her hooks into the Challengers in a big way. Judging by Corinna's later behavior (COTU V2 3-5), she probably got bored and wandered off to new thrills. Or did June come back and send her packing? |
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Either way, the next time we see June, she's in civvies at the White House (STF 8). She meets with President Ford as the Challengers' liasion. By then she's a full-fledged member with a uniform: no more of this "honorary Challenger/mascot" stuff. In cool weather she adds a snazzy vest complete with hourglass logo (SO 12). Was she working in Washington again? Had she found what she wanted? Or given up? All her time from now on is dedicated to adventuring. |
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If June craves action, she gets it, bounced around like a ping pong ball. The Challengers dive into the Bermuda Triangle to rescue Henry Kissinger and find an island of dinosaurs and time-lost humans. (STF 8.) They stop Multi-Man from conquering the world. (STF 10, COTU 81.) Prof collapses from a mysterious ailment. Seeking a cure, the Challs run afoul of an elder space-god named M'nagaleh and his cultists. June is almost sacrificed to the monster. Swamp Thing and Deadman dive to the rescue. Before they can catch their breath, giant cubes land in cities and sprout monsters. The cubes are from 12,000,000 AD! Using Rip Hunter's time cube, Ace, June, and Rocky ricochet to the future with Swamp Thing and Deadman along. There they join local rebels to rescue Rip and scotch The Sunset Lords at the End of Time. (COTU 82 - 87.) |
Through it all June matches the boys shot for shot. She fights alongside them as a regular teammate, but doesn't bring any computer skills to the job. It almost feels as if June is trying TOO hard to prove herself. Why is never clear. And her quest is not helped when Red makes a play, then Rocky starts mooning around. It's tough being a woman in a man's world. |
And things get way worse for everyone... |
