Cosmo

COSMO

Real Name: J'suna

Class: Extraterrestrial

Occupation: Pet

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Challenger Mountain, Rocky Mountains

First Appearance: Challengers of the Unknown I #18 (February-March, 1961)

Powers: Cosmo possessed the power of flight, and could project energy bolts and forcefields.

History: (Challengers of the Unknown I #18) - June Robbins of the Challengers of the Unknown inherited a tropical island in the Caribbean from her late uncle, and the Challs thought it would make a great vacation spot despite the fact that it had been dubbed Mystery Island because of recent unexplained events that kept people away. The Challs saw a satellite crash into the ocean from space, and retrieved it. Inside they found a small space creature, and surmised that the satellite was an experimental space capsule launched by other alien beings. They offered the fatigued creature water, which he eagerly guzzled. The alien warmed to June immediately, and the Challs named him Cosmo. They arrived on Mystery Island, splitting up and discovering that a number of threats appearing to keep people away from the island, including a live volcano, ghostly apparitions, falling trees, and windstorms were all man-made. The Challs fell into traps, but Cosmo rescued June, Ace and Rocky by chewing through the steel net they were snagged in, and blasted a path through the forest using his eye-beams to find their other teammates. Red and Prof. were prisoners in an oubliette in a cave, but were freed by their teammates. The cave was filled with guns, grenades and burglar tools, and suddenly a group of gangsters appeared, drawing their guns. They were running an underworld depot, and had previously kept people away with the dangers they'd created around the island. Cosmo blasted the guns from their hands and the Challs beat them down. The authorities were called in, and told the Challs they could keep Cosmo in their custody as thanks for busting up the gang, and the Challs thanked their new pet for saving their hides.

(Challengers of the Unknown I #21) - The Challengers tested the abilities of their space-pet Cosmo when they had to investigate havoc caused by the telekinetic villain Zardoc. They saved hikers from a landslide caused by Zardoc, but the villain almost killed Rocky and Ace when he levitated the bridge they were on and spun it into the sky. Cosmo sensed their distress, and created a forcefield to cushion their fall. Cosmo nearly defeated Zardoc before he conjured a dragon from his thoughts to fight the pet. The Challs distracted Zardoc, causing the dragon to disappear, and Zardoc fled. The next time they met the Challs distracted Zardoc with a reflection oif Cosmo, allowing them to remove his helmet, the source of his power.

Comments: Created by an unnamed writer & Bob Brown.