- Script
- Bill Mantlo (credited)
- Pencils
- John Byrne (credited)
- Inks
- Bob Layton (credited)
- Colors
- Don Warfield (credited as D. Warfield)
- Letters
- Bruce Patterson (credited as Patterson); Gaspar Saladino (page one)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- 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!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Champions: Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Black Widow [Natasha Romanoff; Natasha Romanoff]; Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Hercules; Iceman [Bobby Drake]
Black Goliath [Bill Foster]; Darkstar [Laynia Petrovna]; Giant-Man [Hank Pym] (cameo flashback); Goliath [Clint Barton] (cameo flashback); Hawkeye [Clint Barton]; Hulk [Bruce Banner] (cameo flashback); Warlord Kaa (villain, death ?); Stilt-Man [Wilbur Day] (villain, cameo); Two-Gun Kid [Matt Hawk]; Shadow-Aliens (all death, villains)
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- 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.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Arizona; flying saucers; Los Angeles; mind-control
Two-Gun Kid appears between Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #151 and Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #100. The box was stolen in Black Goliath (Marvel, 1976 series) #4.
- Script
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dear Marvel, CHAMPIONS #8 was brilliant.
Letters from: Carl Dennison, Tim Justice, Fred J. Quicksilver, Ted Longstreth, Paul Salerno, and Charles H. Hungerdunger.
Placed between pages 11 and 12 of the main sequence.