The Champions #5 [25¢]
(April 1976)

Marvel, 1975 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.25 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
On-sale Date
1976-01-20
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
Editing
Marv Wolfman (credited) (editor)

Issue Notes

On sale date from the Comic Reader #126.
This issue has variants:

Murder Is a Man Called...Rampage! (Table of Contents)

The Champions / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Rich Buckler
Inks
Frank Giacoia
Colors
?
Letters
Danny Crespi
Genre
superhero
Characters
The Champions: Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Black Widow [Natasha Romanoff]; Hercules; Iceman [Bobby Drake]
Rampage [Stuart Clarke]
Universe
Marvel : mainstream
Reprints

Indexer Notes

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

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The Economy Is So Bad That... (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script
Tony Isabella (credited)
Pencils
Don Heck (credited) (layouts); John Tartaglione (credited as John Tartag) (finishes)
Inks
John Tartaglione (credited as John Tartag) (finished art)
Colors
Janice Cohen (credited as J. Cohen)
Letters
John Costanza (credited as J. Costanza) (pages 1-7); Irv Watanabe (pages 10-31, uncredited)
Job Number
JV 241
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Presenting: the everyman of super-villains... the first menace born of the recession... Rampage!
Genre
superhero
Characters
The Champions: Angel [Warren Worthington III] (also in cameo flashback); Black Widow [Natasha Romanoff] (also in cameo flashback); Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze] (cameo flashback); Hercules (also in cameo flashback); Iceman [Bobby Drake] (also in cameo flashback)
Emerson Bale (introduction); Richard Fenster; Dr. Edward Lansing (cameo flashback); Ivan Petrovich; Rampage [Stuart Clarke] (villain, introduction, origin); Amos Crawley (introduction); Anna; Rose
Universe
Marvel : mainstream
Synopsis
The Champions must stop the bank robbing Rampage, a villain driven to crime by the poor state of the economy.
Reprints
Keywords
U.C.L.A.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Cables of Champions / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Dear Tony, Bill, George, and Vince, ...

Indexer Notes

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

Spider-Man and the Cupcake Caper (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Hostess Cup Cakes; Spider-Man / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Murder Is a Man Called...Rampage!
    The Champions
  2. 1. The Economy Is So Bad That...
    The Champions
  3. 2. ["Dear Tony, Bill, George, and Vince, ..."]
    Cables of Champions
  4. 3. Spider-Man and the Cupcake Caper
    Hostess Cup Cakes; Spider-Man
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Nick Caputo
  • Peter Croome
  • Del Gruber
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Darrel McCann
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Jim Stangas
  • Steven Tice
  • Jim Van Dore
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