Editor Marv Wolfman. Cover Artists Rich Buckler and Frank Giacoia. Featured characters: The Champions including Angel, Black Widow, Ghost Rider, Hercules and Iceman.

The Champions are a team of superheroes that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The team first appears in The Champions #1 (October 1975) and was created by writer Tony Isabella and artist Don Heck.

The team battled established Marvel villains such as Pluto; the Griffin; the Titanium Man and Crimson Dynamo; Warlord Kaa; the Stranger; Kamo Tharnn; and new foes such as Rampage and Swarm. Russian heroine Darkstar joins the team, and Black Goliath eventually guest stars in the title. The second-to-last issue continued a story (involving a power struggle between villains Doctor Doom and Magneto) from the title Super-Villain Team-Up, and the last issue's storyline involving an attack by Sentinels is referenced in the title Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man, which explains in flashback how the team disbanded.

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