The Champions #7 [British]

(August 1976)

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The Man Who Created the Black Widow (Table of Contents: 2)

The Champions / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script

Tony Isabella (credited)

Pencils

George Tuska (credited)

Inks

Vince Colletta (credited); John Romita (see notes)

Colors

Phil Rachelson (credited as Phil Rache)

Letters

Karen Mantlo (credited as K. Mantlo); Gaspar Saladino (splash)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Welcome to the Champions' temporary headquarters, a plush suite in a twenty-three story top-dollar Los Angeles office building...

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Champions: Angel [Warren Worthington III] (also in flashback); Black Widow [Natasha Romanoff] (origin in flashback); Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Hercules (also in flashback); Iceman [Bobby Drake] (also in flashback)
Emerson Bale; Stuart Clarke (villain) (also in flashback as Rampage); Commissar [Alexi Bruskin] (introduction); Darkstar [Laynia Petrovna] (introduction); Richard Fenster; Griffin [Johnny Horton] (villain); Ivan Petrovich; Yuri Petrovitch (introduction); Titanium Man [Boris Bullski] (villain)

Universe

Marvel : mainstream

Reprints

• in Titans (Editions Lug, 1976 series) #10 (10 septembre 1977)
• in Marvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] (Marvel UK, 1979 series) #364 (August 1980) [black and white]
• in The Champions Classic (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
• in Marvel Limited Edition. Los Campeones (Panini España, 2015 series) (Julio 2015)
• in Marvel Masterworks: The Champions (Marvel, 2016 series) #1 (2016)
• in Champions Classic: The Complete Collection (Marvel, 2018 series) (2018)
• in True Believers: Black Widow - Darkstar (Marvel, 2020 series) #1 (December 2020)

Keywords

Los Angeles

Indexer Notes

Romita inking touch-ups on Iceman throughout. Info per Nick Caputo.

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Script

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Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

One thing you've got to admit...

Indexer Notes

Letters from: M. Clive Hamming, Scott Gibson, K. J. Robbins, Ralph Macchio, and Dale Candall.

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