| Synopsis |
The Challengers jet to their “own private Devil’s Island” where the League of Challenger-Haters are imprisoned. They taunt them awhile, then leave. Multi-Man grins as a giant female tears open their cells: Multi-Woman II. She drives the villains underground in a laser-driller. She also enforces Multi-Man’s iron grip. Good thing, because he proposes they ally with the Challengers! Days later, the Challengers respond to a fire in a Colorado coal mine. They cut off the oxygen by collapsing tunnels spotted with pink dye. But when they exit the mine, they find the valley frozen solid! TV shows President Johnson reporting a New Ice Age all around the globe caused by four chunks of a fallen meteor. The president makes an odd request: that the Challengers work with Multi-Man’s crew! The pardoned villains arrive. The Challengers cooperate, though they “smell a rat”. Venturing deep, the two teams find screeching space dragons that radiate fierce cold or heat! The former villians valiantly attack and are burned or frozen to death. And still more space dragons lurk below. Resolved, Prof fetches dynamite. The Challengers blow the tunnels closed. The dragons are trapped forever, but so are the heroes! Then a dragon taunts them: it’s a robot with a radio speaker! Multi-Man and company gloat on the surface. They ran the world’s biggest scam. They started the coal fires, built the dragons, froze the valley, faked the news cast and their deaths - all to bury the Challengers. Ha, ha. Except the Challengers rush from the cave! Ace grabs Drabny’s helmet and snares the villains. They forgot one thing: the Challengers were stuck with the powerful robot dragons. Prof rigged one as a steam shovel and they dug free! So the villains end up back in their island prison, with no Multi-Woman to “bake them a cake with a file in it!” |