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Join Black Widow, Hercules, Ghost Rider, Iceman and Angel as they form an all-new super-team: the Champions! Now, their complete adventures are available in a single volume! Savor every issue, every highlight, every page as the lives of these Marvel icons play out together! Their struggles will reveal the origin of the man who created the Black Widow, pit them against the combined might of Magneto and Doctor Doom, unleash the Crimson Dynamo and Titanium Man on Los Angeles, team them with the Stranger in the fight for an Infinity Gem and bring fan-favorite artist John Byrne aboard for some of his greatest early work, including stories featuring the Sentinels and Brotherhood of Evil Mutants!
Written by Tony Isabella, Bill Mantlo, Chris Claremont, Jim Shooter, & Roger Stern
Penciled by George Tuska, John Byrne, Bob Hall, Don Heck, & Sal Buscema
COLLECTING: CHAMPIONS (1975) #1-17; IRON MAN ANNUAL (1970) #4; AVENGERS (1963) #163;SUPER-VILLAIN TEAM-UP (1975) #14; SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN (1976) #17-18,HULK ANNUAL #7
Written by Tony Isabella, Bill Mantlo, Chris Claremont, Jim Shooter, & Roger Stern
Penciled by George Tuska, John Byrne, Bob Hall, Don Heck, & Sal Buscema
COLLECTING: CHAMPIONS (1975) #1-17; IRON MAN ANNUAL (1970) #4; AVENGERS (1963) #163;SUPER-VILLAIN TEAM-UP (1975) #14; SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN (1976) #17-18,HULK ANNUAL #7
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"I have always had mixed feelings about Champions because the title was so different from my original concept of a buddy book starring Iceman and the Angel, traveling around the country like the heroes of TV's Route 66, having adventures and helping out people like you and me except that a great many of those folks would be beautiful young women. Instead, the group expanded to five members with the additions of the Black Widow, Ghost Rider and Hercules. They were based in LosAngeles and had the high-minded mission statement of being "heroes for the common man." That mission wasn't accomplished per se, but that didn't seem to bother the readers.
"Something about the weird mix resonated with readers, then and now, because, when I'm signing comics at conventions, the comics I am most asked to sign are Black Lightning, Ghost Rider, Hawkman and ... Champions. I've met Champions fans who weren't born until a decade or more after the series was launched and ended.
"Rereading the stories for this collection, I was reminded of just how good veterans Don Heck and George Tuska were at making even my most convoluted plots look good. I was impressed by the early work of future superstars like Bob Hall, John Byrne and Bob Layton and, especially Bill Mantlo, surely one of the unsung heroes of Marvel's writing corps. Mantlo and Byrne created one of my all-time favorite Marvel villains ofthe 1970s -- Swarm -- in a two-issue story I think was the best Champions story of them all. There's a lot of great reading in this tremendous tome." -- Tony Isabella
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"Something about the weird mix resonated with readers, then and now, because, when I'm signing comics at conventions, the comics I am most asked to sign are Black Lightning, Ghost Rider, Hawkman and ... Champions. I've met Champions fans who weren't born until a decade or more after the series was launched and ended.
"Rereading the stories for this collection, I was reminded of just how good veterans Don Heck and George Tuska were at making even my most convoluted plots look good. I was impressed by the early work of future superstars like Bob Hall, John Byrne and Bob Layton and, especially Bill Mantlo, surely one of the unsung heroes of Marvel's writing corps. Mantlo and Byrne created one of my all-time favorite Marvel villains ofthe 1970s -- Swarm -- in a two-issue story I think was the best Champions story of them all. There's a lot of great reading in this tremendous tome." -- Tony Isabella
Tony Isabella is a writer and editor, known for his work at both Marvel Comics and DC Comics. He worked on several Marvel cult-classic series like Ghost Rider, It the Living Colossus, Tigra, and Heroes for Hire. While writing the Iron Fist feature, he co-created supporting character Misty Knight with artist Arvell Jones. At DC, he created the iconic hero Black Lightning, now featured in a major television series.
Bill Mantlo is a writer, perhaps best known for his work on Micronauts and Rom. With artist Keith Giffen, he created the original character Rocket Raccoon -- and with artist Ed Hannigan, he created the super-hero duo Cloak and Dagger.
Chris Claremont wrote The Uncanny X-Men for seventeen years as well as the novelization of the movie X-Men 2. He was the co-creator of several top-selling series for Marvel Comics, including Excalibur and New Mutants. His debut novel was Firstflight, to which he wrote two sequels, Grounded and Sundowner. He collaborated with George Lucas on three novels in The Chronicles of the Shadow War, and has delved into fantasy with the publication of Dragon Moon, a dark fantasy novel co-authored with his wife, Beth Fleisher.
Jim Shooter is a writer, artist, editor, and publisher. He started professionally in the comics medium at the age of 14, and he is most notable for his role as Marvel Comics ninth editor-in-chief, and his work as editor-in-chief of Valiant, Defiant, and Broadway Comics.
Roger Stern has written for radio, television, the stage, and the Internet, creating scripts for everything from sketch comedy to flash-animation. For ten years, he was the senior writer of the Superman series for DC Comics. Stern has written hundreds of stories about such diverse characters as Green Lantern, Supergirl, Starman, and the Justice League for DC Comics; and Spider-Man, Captain America, the Incredible Hulk, and the Avengers for Marvel. His first prose novel, The Death and Life of Superman, was a New York Times bestseller.
Bill Mantlo is a writer, perhaps best known for his work on Micronauts and Rom. With artist Keith Giffen, he created the original character Rocket Raccoon -- and with artist Ed Hannigan, he created the super-hero duo Cloak and Dagger.
Chris Claremont wrote The Uncanny X-Men for seventeen years as well as the novelization of the movie X-Men 2. He was the co-creator of several top-selling series for Marvel Comics, including Excalibur and New Mutants. His debut novel was Firstflight, to which he wrote two sequels, Grounded and Sundowner. He collaborated with George Lucas on three novels in The Chronicles of the Shadow War, and has delved into fantasy with the publication of Dragon Moon, a dark fantasy novel co-authored with his wife, Beth Fleisher.
Jim Shooter is a writer, artist, editor, and publisher. He started professionally in the comics medium at the age of 14, and he is most notable for his role as Marvel Comics ninth editor-in-chief, and his work as editor-in-chief of Valiant, Defiant, and Broadway Comics.
Roger Stern has written for radio, television, the stage, and the Internet, creating scripts for everything from sketch comedy to flash-animation. For ten years, he was the senior writer of the Superman series for DC Comics. Stern has written hundreds of stories about such diverse characters as Green Lantern, Supergirl, Starman, and the Justice League for DC Comics; and Spider-Man, Captain America, the Incredible Hulk, and the Avengers for Marvel. His first prose novel, The Death and Life of Superman, was a New York Times bestseller.
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- PublisherMarvel Universe
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1302911805
- ISBN 13 9781302911805
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages472
- IllustratorHeck Don
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