DC Challenge

"If This is Love, Why do my Teeth Hurt?"

Cover Date June 1986
Issue #8
Pages 23
Type Cameo
Cover Price 75¢

Synopsis

DC Challenge was a round-robin series where each issue's writer had to resolve the previous cliffhanger and leave a new one. Von Hammer appears on the cover and across seven panels in this chapter, one of his most substantial appearances in a non-Enemy Ace title, as the Challenge's time-spanning narrative pulled him into a modern context.

Collector Notes

The DC Challenge run gave Enemy Ace his most panel-time in a crossover context since the JLA issues of 1978. Gerry Conway, returning to the character he handled in those JLA stories, writes von Hammer with evident familiarity. Dick Giordano's inks give the period sequences their correct visual weight.

Creative Team

Writer Gerry Conway
Penciler Rick Hoberg
Inker Dick Giordano
Letterer John Costanza