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Issue: The Champions Classic #1
Publication Date: January 2006
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Issues: #1 of 2 Issues
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
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Indicia Publisher: Marvel Publishing Inc.
On Sale Date: 2006
Volume: 1
Pages: 212
ISBN: 0785120971
UPC/EAN: 9780785120971
Price: $32.00 CAD
$19.99 USD
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Content Items: 26 (11 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Collects The Champions (Marvel, 1975 series) #1-11.
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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy
Binding: softcover
Publishing Format: collected editions
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Champions [Hercules; Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Black Widow [Natasha Romanova]; Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Iceman]
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The Champions

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Champions [Hercules; Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Black Widow [Natasha Romanova]; Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Iceman]
First Line: Onward, my comrades!
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The World Still Needs... the Champions!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Champions [Hercules; Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Black Widow [Natasha Romanova]; Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Iceman] (introduction; origin); Venus; Pluto (villain); Ares (villain); Hippolyta (villain); Amazons (villain); Mutates (villain); Cerberus (villain); Harpies (villain); Ivan
First Line: Two young men stroll the U.C.L.A. campus this sunny autumn morning.
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Character(s): Pluto; Ares; Hippolyta; The Champions [Hercules; Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Black Widow [Natasha Romanova]; Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Iceman]
First Line: Your comrades cannot help you, Hercules!
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Disclose Notes: Inside, Hippolyta's hair is colored green, while on the cover it is auburn.
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Whom the Gods Would Join...

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Character(s): THe Champions [Hercules; Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Black Widow [Natasha Romanova]; Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Iceman]; Venus; Zeus; Dionysius; Athena; Olympians; Pluto (villain); Ares (villain); Hippolyta (villain); Huntsman of Zeus (villain); Menoetius (villain)
First Line: Chaos reigns on the campus of U.C.L.A. for in the past hour, its scholarly confines have been rent by creatures from beyond time.
Synopsis: Pluto tries to marry off Hercules and Venus against their will. He is blackmailing Zeus to get his support.
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Assault on Olympus!

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Character(s): Pluto; Zeus; The Champions [Hercules; Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Black Widow [Natasha Romanova]; Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Iceman]
First Line: Even if thy son and his comrades survive this combat, Zeus--
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Assault on Olympus

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Character(s): The Champions [Hercules; Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Black Widow [Natasha Romanova]; Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Iceman]; Venus; Zeus; Dionysius; Pluto (villain); Ares (villain); Hippolyta (villain); Mutates (villain); Huntsman of Zeus (villain)
First Line: It would seem that friend Iceman takes his defeats in stride, Angel!
Synopsis: The heroes take the fight to Olympus.
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Murder at Malibu!

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Character(s): The Champions [Hercules; Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Black Widow [Natasha Romanova]; Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Iceman]
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Murder at Malibu!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Champions [Hercules; Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Black Widow [Natasha Romanova]; Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Iceman]; Dr. Edward Lansing (villain, introduction, death); Old Billy (introduction)
First Line: It begins with a walk on the beach...
Synopsis: Hercules and Natasha encounter a person who is an escapee of Dr. Edward Lansing's experiments to re-create the Super-Soldier Serum.
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Murder Is a Man Called...Rampage!

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The Economy Is So Bad That...

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Genres: superhero
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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Character(s): The Champions [Hercules; Black Widow [Natasha Romanova]; Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Iceman]; Rampage
First Line: Maybe you clowns just formed the Champions...
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Mad Dogs and Businessmen

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Character(s): The Champions [Hercules; Black Widow [Natasha Romanova]; Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Iceman]; Rampage (villain)
First Line: I'm talking about extending a needed hand when ordinary people face out-of-the-ordinary problems.
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The Man Who Created the Black Widow!

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Character(s): Griffin; The Champions [Hercules; Black Widow [Natasha Romanova]; Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Iceman; Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]]
First Line: You don't stand a chance against the Griffin, Champion--
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The Man Who Created the Black Widow

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Character(s): The Champions [Black Widow [Natasha Romanova] (origin, flashback); Hercules; Angel; Iceman; Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]]; Darkstar [Laynia Sergeievna Petrovna] (introduction); Yuri Petrovich (introduction); the Commissar [Alexi Bruskin] (introduction); Griffin (villain); Darkstar (villain); Rampage (villain); Titanium Man (villain)
First Line: Welcome to the Champions' temporary headquarters, a plush suite in a twenty-three story top-dollar Los Angeles office building...
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Messenger of Death!

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Divide and Conquer!

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Character(s): The Champions [Black Widow [Natasha Romanova]; Hercules; Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Iceman]; Rampage; Alexi Brushki [The Commissar]; Ivan Petrovich; Griffin; Darkstar; Titanium Man; Crimson Dynamo [Yuri Petrovich a.k.a the Outcast]; Dick Fenster
First Line: By the silver bow of Apollo!
Synopsis: Rampage stops by the Champions' offices to deliver a message about their teammate, the Black Widow. Instead, his exo-skeleton explodes. Then the Champions split up: Ghost Rider takes Rampage to the hospital, Iceman and Ivan search for Natasha, and Hercules and the Angel prepare for a press conference introducing the Champions to the world. But the conference is interrupted by the arrival of the Griffin, the Titanium Man and the Crimson Dynamo.
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The Battle of Los Angeles!

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Character(s): The Champions [Hercules; Black Widow [Natasha Romanova]]; Titanium Man [Yuri Petrovich]; Crimson Dynamo [Alex Nevsky]; Darkstar
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The Battle of Los Angeles!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Champions [Hercules; Black Widow [Natasha Romanova] (origin continued); Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Iceman; Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]]; Commissar [Alexei Buskin]; Crimson Dynamo [Alex Nevsky]; Titanium Man [Yuri Petrovich]; Griffin; Darkstar; Ivan Petrovich
First Line: Mere moments ago, an impressive ceremony began, officially inaugurating the Champions as Los Angeles' first super-hero group.
Synopsis: The villains attack the remaining heroes and defeat them. Meanwhile, Black Widow escapes just as Ivan and Iceman locate the location where the Widow is being held.
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The Demon and the Demi-God!

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Character(s): The Champions [Hercules; Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]]
First Line: Aside, Satan-spawn!
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One Man's Son Is Another Man's Poison!

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Character(s): The Champions [Hercules; Black Widow [Natasha Romanova] (origin continues); Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Iceman; Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]]; Darkstar; Titanium Man [Yuri Petrovich]; Crimson Dynamo [Alex Nevsky]; Griffin
First Line: You are going to die, Champions--and you'll never even know why!
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Guest Starring Black Goliath! Providing He Lives That Long!

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Character(s): The Champions [Hercules; Black Widow [Natasha Romanova]; Iceman]; Black Goliath [Bill Foster]
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The Shadow from the Stars

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Character(s): The Champions [Hercules; Black Widow [Natasha Romanova]; Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Iceman; Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]]; Darkstar; Black Goliath [Bill Foster]; Hawkeye; Two-Gun Kid; Warlord Kaa (villain); Shadow-Aliens (all death, villains); Hulk (flashback); Stilt-Man (villain, cameo)
First Line: Los Angeles, twenty-five stories above street level, the Champions' shiny new sky-car begins a 1.5 second out-of-control plunge toward sudden death!
Synopsis: Black Goliath stops the Champions' sky-car from crashing and reveals that he designed the ship. He discovers that the metal used in the construction of the ship was of inferior quality. The Champions, including new ally Darkstar, travel to Arizona and help Hawkeye and the Two-Gun Kid defeat the Warlord Kaa and his Shadow-Aliens. Back in LA, a girl arrives at Champions base carrying a box (formerly belonging to the Stranger) that was stolen from Bill Foster's lab a week ago. The Stilt-Man breaks into Champions HQ looking for the box.
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Character(s): The Griffin; Hercules; Iceman; Angel; Ghost Rider
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Disclose Notes: Original unused cover for The Champions #7.

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