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Issue: Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions #3

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Publication Date: August 1982

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Issues: #3 of 3 Issues (6 Printings)

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Variant: Direct Edition

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

Brand: Marvel Comics [in banner, no "group"]

Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group

On Sale Date: 1982

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: £0.25 GBP
$0.60 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 7 (4 stories, 1 cover)

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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: limited series

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2 Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions #3 [Direct Edition]

Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions #3 [Newsstand]

Reprinted In5

1 Content Item
- Recap [Story on Interior Page(s)]0

reprinted 2 times as/in other Issues.

Some/all of Issue reprinted as/in 3 other Issues:

Marvel Super Heroes Contest of Champions #[nn] published January 2015

Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions Gallery Edition #[nn] published January 2022

Marvel Masterworks: The Incredible Hulk #17 [unnamed variant] published January 2023

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Content Items (7 total)

And the Winner... Death!

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Genres: superhero

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Pages: 1

Recap

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Genres: superhero

First Line: In an orbiting arena on the threshold of space...

Synopsis: Recap of the previous two issues.

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Avengers: The Contest #[nn] [premiere edition] published January 2010

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Avengers: The Contest #[nn] published January 2012

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Pages: 1

Chapter 4 Third Contest: Siege In the City of the Dead!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

First Line: Cripes! Teleportin' always makes me sick to my stomach!

Synopsis: The third contest takes place in a Japanese city between Thing, Wolverine and Peregrine vs. Black Panther, Angel and Vanguard. The Thing wins for the Grandmaster.

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Pages: 9

Chapter 5 Fourth Contest: Struggle in the Jungle!

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Genres: superhero

First Line: Begorrah! 'Tisn't Ireland we've been sent to, teammates!

Synopsis: The fourth contest takes place in the jungle between Captain America, Sasquatch and Blitzkrieg and Storm, Shamrock and Collective Man. Shamrock wins for the Grandmaster (?; See note below).

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Pages: 7

Notes: In one of the bigger blunders on record, with the final contest looming, the score stands Grandmaster-2 The Unknown-1. Shamrock triumphs in the last conflict and the Grandmaster is declared the winner for the final part of the story. The only problem is that Shamrock was on The Unknown's team which would have made the battles tied. I guess even cosmic entities can make mistakes.

Chapter 6 Winner Takes None!

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Genres: superhero

First Line: The orbiting space stadium is electric with anticipation...

Synopsis: Grandmaster is declared the winner and the Unknown, who Invisible Girl reveals to be Death, uses the Golden Globe of Life to resurrect the Collector but she uses the Grandmaster's life force to do so. The heroes are returned to Earth.

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Pages: 6

Marvel Super Heroes - 1982

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Penciller(s): various

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: superhero

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Pages: 2

Notes: Concluding the alphabetical listing of Marvel heroes as of 1982.

A Dungeons & Dragons Adventure! [The Black Swamp of Lobella]

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Genres: fantasy

Character(s): Grimslade; Indel; Oakthorn; Saren; Valerius

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Pages: 1

Notes: Comic strip ad for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game from TSR Hobbies, Inc.. Continued between [The Woods of Oakthorn] and [The Avalanche].