J'KAL

Real Name: J'kal

Class: Extraterrestrial technology-user

Occupation: Scientist, outlaw

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: unnamed planet

First Appearance: Challengers of the Unknown I #22 (October-November, 1961)

Powers: J'kal was a telepath and possessed the starkan, a device which could disassemble matter and reassemble it in a different time period.

History: (Challengers of the Unknown I #22) - J'kal planned to create an intergalactic zoo by collecting specimens from various time periods, using a remarkable device called a starkan. He was denied by the law of his planet from pursuing his vision, essentially kidnapping and experimenting on other sentient beings, so he fled the planet with his gigantic alien servant Monstrus, and went to Earth. He used the starkan to collect a caveman, a knight, a Mesopotamian warrior, a Roman gladiator and a Viking, locking them in electric cages. The cages short circuited, and escaped into a nearby town, causing havoc. They were subdued by the Challengers of the Unknown, who brought them back to their Challenger Mountain headquarters. Monstrus burst into the mountain, capturing the Challs in its' tendrils. J'kal, explained his intergalactic zoo and thanked the Challs for rounding up his subjects, but told the Challs he was adding them to his collection. The Challs found themselves imprisoned, but Ace short circuited their cage by jamming the nails from June's heels into the cell's electric lock. They woke Monstrus, who was guarding them, but Prof. and June escaped in their pickup truck while the other Challs distracted Monstrus with grenades. An alien law enforcement agent from J'kal's planet used a freeze ray to disable Monstrus, and demanded that J'kal surrender peacefully. J'kal pulled a gun, but June and the Prof. returned in a plane and strafed the ground in front of him, disarming the alien. The alien officer arrested J'kal, and used the technological marvel the starkan to send J'kal and Monstrus back to their homeworld, and then returned the warriors of ancient times back to their time periods in the past.

Comments: Created by Ed Herron? & Bob Brown.