"Have You Heard of The Teenage Mutant Challengers?"
* * * MAJOR SPOILERS: CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN MUST DIE, and TMNT VOL 4 * * * When I was a kid I wanted to be a paleontologist. Then an archaeologist. Then a detective. There's something wonderful about finding things that have been hidden away - about lost origins, clues hidden in plain sight, and cities built on top of other cities. "The Challengers of The Unknown" is one of those cities. It was a wildly popular Jack Kirby creation of the late 1950s and 1960s - a series that seems all but forgotten today, relegated to in-jokes on "Teen Titans Go!" about dusty, old-fashioned, out-of-touch comic franchises. It's been so ignored in the Internet Age that my hour-long web search for detailed reviews, undertaken earlier this year, yielded only one result. That review , by Win Wiacek of "Now Read This," explains that the Challengers of the Unknown (aka “Challengers,” or “Challs”) were four unrelated men who almost died in a plane crash en