KANDU

Real Name: Kandu

Class: Extraterrestrial technology-user

Occupation: Intergalactic police officer, stage magician

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Mobile throughout the galaxy

First Appearance: Challengers of the Unknown I #26 (June-July, 1962)

Powers: Like all members of his race Kandu possessed superhuman healing abilities, but was weakened by the rays of a yellow sun and water. Kandu used several pieces of advanced technology, including a spaceship capable of intergalactic battle, a mining device equipped with powerful vacuums, laser generators that built bridges, space metal that enabled someone in contact with it to perform telekinesis, and a ray-gun that could disintegrate a target.

History:  (Challengers of the Unknown I #26) - Kandu was an intergalactic police agent, and apprehended a gang of his own people that were setting up shop on Earth. They'd hidden three capsules containing extraterrestrial monsters behind on Earth, and he had to find them before they hated. To avoid suspicion Kandu posed as a magician, whose space spectacle show used advanced tech that he claimed was magic. His electrical robot generator went haywire, and the robots injured him, but the Challengers of the Unknown saved him, and he rewarded them with tickets to his next show. They watched in amazement as he performed a feat of telekinesis using space metal, but noticed his wounds had healed, and shadowed him after the show to learn his story. He went to a mountain range where a space capsule released a Bird-Beast with a petrifying gaze. Red blinding him with his shirt, and the Bird-Beast turned it to stone, but injured its' eyes. Ace used a valley to create an echo, and the confused monster crashed into a cliff. Kandu revealed himself as an alien and told the Challs of his mission. They agreed to help him find the other two capsules, but the search was interrupted by a thief who stole Kandu's tech to commit a robbery. The Challs stopped him, and with Kandu's aid defeated the Builder-Creature and Aqua-Beast that emerged from the remaining capsules.

Comments: Created by Dave Wood? & Bob Brown.