Challengers of the Unknown #18

In "Saxon's Story," the enigmatic Noel Saxon—long a shadowy adversary to the Challengers of the Unknown—takes center stage in a haunting, character-driven tale written by Steven Grant and illustrated by Mike Zeck, with inks by Denis Rodier and colors by Kurt Goldzung. When Saxon is pulled back from a Tesla field by a group of reckless teens, he’s drawn into the sinister Aristos cult, where the Eye of the Dark Flame reveals a shocking connection to the very crash that defined the Challengers’ origin—only Saxon refused the transformative light. Cover by Mike Zeck and Denis Rodier, this 1998 issue delivers a tense, personal reckoning that redefines Saxon’s role in the mythos, all without revealing how it ends.