Challengers of the Unknown (Volume 3) #8 is an issue of the series Challengers of the Unknown (Volume 3) with a cover date of September, 1997.
Synopsis for "Last Days, Part Two of Three: Beginnings and Endings"
The original Challengers and Marlon Corbet are in the Mojave Desert to save the rest of the new Challengers team from snipers controlled by Doctor Carcosa. Marlon recounts the plane crash that brought together the new Challengers. The plane was surrounded in white light, just like a recent incident that the Challengers are investigating.[1] The original Challengers reveal that he plane crash that brought them together was also bathed in light before they went down.
June Robbins reveals to the group that she and Professor Haley were not killed when Challengers Mountain exploded. Instead, they were wisked to a far off planet until just yesterday when the vanished and appeared back on Earth in a laboratory. Red Ryan corrects her: it's actually been five years.
The group presses forward into the desert and finds an advanced lab filled with hostile gunmen who descend upon them. As they do, Saxon kills them and says that the Challengers have to team with him to be safe.
Appearing in "Last Days, Part Two of Three: Beginnings and Endings"
Featured Characters:
- Challengers of the Unknown
- Clay Brody (Flashback only)
- Marlon Corbet (Flashback and main story)
- Kenn Kawa (Flashback only)
- Brenda Ruskin (Flashback only)
Supporting Characters:
- Challengers of the Unknown
- Rocky Davis (Flashback and main story)
- Professor Haley (Flashback and main story)
- Ace Morgan (Flashback and main story)
- June Robbins (Flashback and main story)
- Red Ryan (Flashback and main story)
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Dane (First appearance)
- Kevin (First appearance)
Locations:
- New Earth
- United States of America
- Challengers Mountain (Flashback only)
- Mojave Desert
- United States of America
- Hell
See Also