CATALOG RECORD
Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions #3
Dates
- Cover date
- August 1982
- On sale
- 1982
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #3 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Direct edition
Direct
No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
Source ↗ - Newsstand edition
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 0714860215908
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Creators
Stories
- Recap · 1 pages
Recap of the previous two issues.
- Chapter 4 Third Contest: Siege In the City of the Dead! · 9 pages
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.
- Chapter 5 Fourth Contest: Struggle in the Jungle! · 7 pages
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).
- Chapter 6 Winner Takes None! · 6 pages
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.
- Marvel Super Heroes - 1982 · 2 pages
Characters
Reprinted in
Avengers: The Contest (2012), Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions Gallery Edition (2022), Contest of Champions (1999), Marvel Masterworks: The Incredible Hulk (2003), Avengers: The Contest (2010), Marvel Super Heroes Contest of Champions (2015)