The Kamandi Challenge Special #1 is a one-shot with a cover date of March, 2017. It was published on January 18, 2017.
Contents
- 1 Synopsis for "Me!"
- 2 Appearing in "Me!"
- 3 Synopsis for "The Last Boy on Earth!"
- 4 Appearing in "The Last Boy on Earth!"
- 5 Synopsis for "Into the Vortex"
- 6 Appearing in "Into the Vortex"
- 7 Synopsis for "I'll See You in My Nightmares!"
- 8 Appearing in "I'll See You in My Nightmares!"
- 9 Synopsis for "The Seal Men's War on Santa Claus"
- 10 Appearing in "The Seal Men's War on Santa Claus"
- 11 Notes
- 12 See Also
- 13 Links and References
Synopsis for "Me!"
This story is reprinted from Kamandi #32.
When gorilla commandoes attack Kamandi and his friends, it takes a giant sand-being to help turn the tide of battle.
Appearing in "Me!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Ramjam (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Leopards
- Great Caesar (Mentioned only)
Locations:
Items:
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "The Last Boy on Earth!"
This story is reprinted from Kamandi #1.
Kamandi is the so-called "Last Boy on Earth". Growing up in an apocalyptic future, he rides a raft down the flooded streets of what was once Manhattan. He sees a group of nomadic humans who flee at the sight of him. While studying them, Kamandi hears an explosion emanating from his command bunker headquarters. He races back to the base to find that someone had set off the booby traps.
Running inside, he is shocked to discover that two wolf-men named Fen and Stek have murdered his grandfather and stolen some documents that they found within the bunker's walls. The wolves attack Kamandi, but he shrugs off the assault with some well-placed karate moves. They chase him down into the tunnels that run beneath Command D, but Kamandi pulls down some wires that strikes the water, electrocuting them.
Emerging from the tunnels, Kamandi takes the Wolves' wagon and drives away. A short time later, he comes upon another amazing sight - a squad of armored Tiger-Men embroiled in armed combat against some Leopard-Men. Kamandi finds himself caught in the middle of the conflict and is captured by the Tiger-Men. The Tiger-Men leader Great Caesar bring him back to the Royal City where he is imprisoned.
Kamandi meets a dog man named Doctor Canus, who is the caretaker of Caesar's prisoners as well as the keeper of a giant nuclear warhead - a holdover from the days before the Great Disaster. Inside Canus' private laboratory, Kamandi meets one of the Nuclear People - Ben Boxer. Kamandi is ecstatic at the chance to meet another human being.
Appearing in "The Last Boy on Earth!"
Featured Characters:
- Kamandi (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Dog People
- Fen (Single appearance)
- Stek (Single appearance)
Locations:
Items:
- Great Caesar's laser rod
- Atomic warhead
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "Into the Vortex"
This story is reprinted from Cancelled Comic Cavalcade #2.
Kamandi is pulled into the Vortex and catches glimpses of other realities throughout the Multiverse. Although he has the opportunity to go to any world of his choosing and start a new life, he elects to return to his home dimension of Earth-AD and help out his friend, Pyra. However, before he can go back, Brute and Glob of the Dreaming mistake Kamandi for Jed Paulsen and pull him into their timeline.
Appearing in "Into the Vortex"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Ben Boxer
- Doctor Canus
- Doile
- Mylock Bloodstalker
- Pyra
- Pyra's Spaceship/Translator
- Renzi
- Spirit
- Steve
Antagonists:
- Kangarat Murder Society
Other Characters:
- Buddy Blank (Cameo)
- Brute
- Flash (Jay Garrick) (Cameo)
- Flash (Barry Allen) (Cameo)
- Glob
- Johnny Quick (Earth-Three) (Cameo)
- The Voice of the Vortex
- Jed Paulsen (Mentioned only)
- Karate Kid (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Earth-AD
- The Vortex
Items:
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "I'll See You in My Nightmares!"
This story is reprinted from Cancelled Comic Cavalcade #2.
Kamandi is taken by Brute and Glob through the Dream Stream to meet the Sandman, whom he asks to help his friends on Earth.
Appearing in "I'll See You in My Nightmares!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Ben Boxer
- Doctor Canus
- Doile
- Mylock Bloodstalker
- O.M.A.C. (One-Man Army Corps) (Cameo)
- Pyra
- Pyra's Spaceship/Translator (Behind the scenes)
- Renzi
- Spirit
- Steve
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Brute
- Glob
- O.M.A.C. (One-Man Army Corps) (Cameo)
- Sandman (Garrett Sanford)
- Jed Paulsen (Mentioned only)
- The Voice of the Vortex (Mentioned only)
Locations:
Items:
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "The Seal Men's War on Santa Claus"
This story is reprinted from Cancelled Comic Cavalcade #2.
Jed Paulsen and the Sandman must rescue Santa Claus from the captivity of the Seal Men, while trying to get a Christmas donation from the wealthy miser Titus Gotrox, which his crooked heir and nephew Rodney tries to thwart.
Appearing in "The Seal Men's War on Santa Claus"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Seal Men
- Rodney Gotrox
Other Characters:
- Santa Claus
- Santa's elves
- Bruce
- Bruce's mother
- Mrs. Claus
- Titus Gotrox
- Nightmare Wizard
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Items:
Vehicles:
Notes
- The first half of this book is a facsimile reprint of Kamandi #32, which was a giant-sized special. The cover of this book is reprinted from Kamandi #32, and then the new story from #32 is reprinted, followed by a map of Earth-AD and the first Kamandi story (both originally from Kamandi #1, but also reprinted in #32).
- "Into the Vortex", "I'll See You in My Nightmares!" and "The Seal Men's War on Santa Claus" are presented just as they were in Cancelled Comic Cavalcade #2 -- in black and white, and with occasional missing captions.
- "I'll See You in My Nightmares!" wraps around "The Seal Men's War on Santa Claus".
- This book also contains a map of Earth-AD (by Jack Kirby, from Kamandi #1) and the unused cover for Kamandi #60 (by Rich Buckler and Jack Abel, from Cancelled Comic Cavalcade #2).
