History ComicBook / ChallengersOfTheUnknown

A new team took up the name in a short-lived 1997 ongoing. A 2004 miniseries also introduced a new team, reimagining them and the original Challengers as having been subjects of a mind-control experiment by a global conspiracy who escaped the leash. A Comicbook/New52 version combining the original and 1997 teams appeared in ''DC Universe Presents'', [[CanonDiscontinuity but we don't talk about that]]. Another new team gets an ongoing in 2017, ''New Challengers'', as part of DC's Creator/{{Dark Matter|2017}} initiative.

** They started as science adventurers (often considered a dry run for Kirby's later [[Comicbook/FantasticFour four-person science adventurer team]]) in the Fifties and tended towards [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age wackiness]] in the Sixties.
** In the Seventies they became more traditional superheroes on the weird DC fringe, interacting with Comicbook/{{Deadman}} and Comicbook/SwampThing.

** The New Challengers disappear into ComicbookLimbo in the early-to-mid 2000s as the original Challengers return only for them to be demoted to CListFodder for a CrisisCrossover, and two get KilledOffForReal around Comicbook/InfiniteCrisis.

* {{Transplant}}: Rocky was transplanted to the Comicbook/DoomPatrol in Keith Giffen's run, essentially becoming their chaplain.

* ImmuneToFate: A 2007 story arc in ''ComicBook/TheBraveAndTheBold'' revealed that the Challengers were destined to die in the plane crash, and ever since they have existed beyond fate; even the Book of [[ComicBook/TheSandman Destiny of the Endless]], which records everything that has ever happened or will happen, contains no record of them beyond that point.

* FiveManBand: The original Challengers are a textbook example:
** TheLeader: Ace Morgan
** TheLancer: Red Ryan
** TheBigGuy: Rocky Davis
** TheSmartGuy: Prof Haley
** TheChick: Corinna Stark in the original series, June Robbins thereafter.

* TheFantasticFour: The UrExample; they actually predate the Fantastic Four by about three years, and were also created by Creator/JackKirby. Kirby in fact used them as the template for creating the Fantastic Four, and DC has often retooled or reinterpreted the characters to be more similar to their more-famous knockoffs.

A new team took up the name in a short-lived 1997 ongoing. A 2004 miniseries also introduced a new team, reimagining them and the original Challengers as having been subjects of a mind-control experiment by a global conspiracy who escaped the leash. Another new team gets an ongoing in 2017, ''New Challengers'', as part of DC's Creator/{{Dark Matter|2017}} initiative.

By the way, if the premise sounds familiar, most Kirby fans say that one of the arguments that he was the real creative force in Creator/MarvelComics was that he basically recycled it in combination with Creator/StanLee's ideas for more complex SuperHero characters to created the groundbreaking ComicBook/FantasticFour, which jump-started the creation of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse.

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: In an early issue, an accident in June's lab turns her into a GiantWoman and a germ she was inspecting into a MegaMicrobe, the two eventually getting into a BehemothBattle.

Ace Morgan, Prof Haley, Rocky Davis and Red Ryan miraculously survive a plane crash, and are inspired to devote their lives to investigating mysteries and facing down strange threats, fearing no danger because they feel that they've already been granted extra time. They debuted in ''Showcase'' #6 in 1957, and made a few more appearances in that title before being given their own series, which ran from 1958 to 1971. They were subsequently rebooted post-Crisis in a 1991 miniseries, and reimagined in the ComicBook/New52 as competitors in a reality TV show, as well as making guest appearances in other series.

A new team took up the name in a short-lived 1997 ongoing. A 2004 miniseries also introduced a new team, reimagining them and the original Challengers as having been subjects of a mind-control experiment by a global conspiracy who escaped the leash. Another new team gets an ongoing in 2017, ''New Challengers'', as part of DC's ''Dark Matter'' initiative.

** The New Challengers disappear into ComicbookLimbo in the early-to-mid 2000s as the original Challengers return only for two to be KilledOffForReal around Comicbook/InfiniteCrisis.

Ace Morgan, Prof Haley, Rocky Davis and Red Ryan miraculously survive a plane crash, and are inspired to devote their lives to investigating mysteries and facing down strange threats, fearing no danger because they feel that they've already been granted extra time.

They debuted in ''Showcase'' #6 in 1957, and made a few more appearances in that title before being given their own series, which ran from 1958 to 1971. In the years since, there have been a number of short-lived revivals, reboots, and guest appearances. In the ComicBook/New52, they were re-imagined as competitors in a reality TV show.

!!This series contains examples of:

* ImmuneToFate: A 2007 story arc in ''ComicBook/TheBraveAndTheBold'' revealed that the Challengers were destined to die in the plane crash, and ever since they have existed beyond fate; even the Book of [[ComicBook/TheSandamn Destiny of the Endless]], which records everything that has ever happened or will happen, contains no record of them beyond that point.

* ImmuneToFate: A 2007 story arc in ''ComicBook/TheBraveAndTheBold'' revealed that the Challengers were destined to die in the plane crash, and ever since they have existed beyond fate; even the Book of Destiny of the Endless, which records everything that has ever happened or will happen, contains no record of them beyond that point.