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Issue: The Champions #5

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Publication Date: April 1976

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Issues: #5 of 17 Issues (34 Printings)

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Variant: British

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: none

Price: £0.09 GBP

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
4 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Marv Wolfman

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Modern Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Variants3

The Champions #5 [25¢]

The Champions #5 [30¢]

The Champions #5 [British]

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Content Items (4 total)

Murder Is a Man Called...Rampage!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Rich Buckler

Inker(s): Frank Giacoia

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Danny Crespi

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Champions

Character(s): The Champions [Hercules; Black Widow [Natasha Romanova]; Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Iceman]; Rampage

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Giacoia inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Dan Adkins. Marvel Comics Index #9A erroneous credits Jim Novak as letterer.

The Economy Is So Bad That...

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Tony Isabella

Penciller(s): Don Heck (layouts)

Inker(s): John Tartaglione [as John Tartag] (finished art)

Colorist(s): Janice Cohen

Letterer(s): John Costanza (pages 1-7); Irving Watanabe (pages 10-31, uncredited)

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Champions

Character(s): The Champions [Hercules; Black Widow [Natasha Romonova]; Iceman; Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze] (flashback)]; Rampage [Stuart Clarke] (introduction, villain, origin); Amos Crawley (introduction); Emerson Bale (introduction); Ivan Petrovich; Richard Fenster

First Line: Presenting: the everyman of super-villains... the first menace born of the recession... Rampage!

Synopsis: The Champions must stop the bank robbing Rampage, a villain driven to crime by the poor state of the economy.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 17

Job Number: JV 241

[untitled]

Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Cables of Champions

First Line: Dear Tony, Bill, George, and Vince, ...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Letters of comment from readers Larry Twiss, Brett Slack, Joseph Noke, and Martin Greene.
Page also contains Marvel Value Stamp Series B #77.
Placed between pages 11 and 12 of the main sequence.

Spider-Man and the Cupcake Caper

Advertisement on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Don Heck

Inker(s): Mike Esposito ?; Frank Giacoia ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Irving Watanabe

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Spider-Man; Hostess Cup Cakes

Character(s): Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Mary Jane Watson; Man Mountain Marko

First Line: Peter Parker is in Mary Jane Watson's apartment when suddenly he sees a familiar enemy.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Featured in March 1976 and April 1976 Marvel Comics. Heck and possible Giacoia inks by Nick Caputo, Feb 2011.