| CLAY BRODY | BIOGRAPHY |
| Created by Steven Grant, Len Kaminski and Jean Paul Leon |
Clay Brody
PERSONAL DATA
Identity: Public
Occupation: Former race car driver
Citizenship: American
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Mrs. Brody (mother); Roy Brody (brother); Charlie Brody (brother)
Group Affiliation(s): Challengers of the Unknown II
Gender: Male
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Brown
First Appearance: Challengers of the Unknown Vol. 3 #1 (February 1997)
Creators: Steven Grant, Len Kaminski and Jean Paul Leon
OVERVIEW
Clay Brody was a member of the second Challengers of the Unknown team.
HISTORY
Clay Brody was born into a family of miners, but he craved something different. Instead of following in their footsteps, he became a NASCAR driver. Reckless on the track, he embodied the old adage: fast cars and fast women.
One fateful flight from Seattle to Miami changed everything. As the plane soared through the sky, it was suddenly engulfed in a blinding white light—then darkness. When the aircraft crashed, only five of the 278 passengers survived. Brody, finding two of the others, managed to reach safety with the help of co-pilot Marlon Corbett.
Not long after, as the survivors regained consciousness, the sky lit up, like a million pure white suns, and the dead rose, ascending into the light until it consumed them. Then, once more, there was darkness. When the four survivors awoke again, paramedics were tending to them, and they were rushed to the hospital for medical evaluation.
In the weeks that followed, the group was approached by Edward Sands, an elderly man who had witnessed the same phenomenon years earlier. Recognizing the signs, Sands sought them out to help continue his research into these mysterious events. Backed by his funding and support, they established a new Challengers of the Unknown, setting up offices and a website where people could report unexplained occurrences for the team to investigate.
At some point, the new Challengers vanished from public view. Clay would not be seen again until after the reality-altering event known as Flashpoint.
In this rewritten reality, Clay Brody was no longer a race car driver but the host of a reality TV show, The Challengers. The program took celebrity guests to the Himalayas for challenges of wit and endurance. En route to the filming location, their plane crashed. Though all aboard survived, Brody perished soon after while heroically saving June Robbins from an unidentified monster.
Yet reality was destined to shift once more. Following the cataclysmic events of Dark Knight: Death Metal, Clay Brody was restored to life, and his original history reinstated.
In the wake of the event known as Absolute Power, Brody would join the Justice League Unlimited, reuniting with past Challengers to oversee operations on the New Justice League Watchtower.
CHRONOLOGY
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