Few things can bring as much action and suspense as a well-written crossover event. Reading a favorite hero’s stories is already great enough. But a whole roster of heroes, all together and working as one? Of the many crossover events fans have enjoyed over the years, there’s one that helped set the bar not just for Marvel, but for the entire industry. Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions is not only the publisher’s very first limited series but is also the very first major crossover event in the history of the company.1982’s Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions (by Mark Gruenwald, Bill Mantlo, Steven Grant, and Bob Layton) was a major undertaking for Marvel Comics upon its release. Marvel’s heroes had teamed up together to fight evil as far back as the late ’60s with heroes like Daredevil, the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, and more coming together. Even the wedding of Reed and Sue Richards posed as one of Marvel’s first important crossover events as it brought nearly every element of the Marvel universe together in one story. What sets Contest of Champions apart from previous stories and publications like Marvel-Two-In-One and Marvel Team-Up is that it didn’t just bring together a mere handful of heroes: it brought them all.The Grandmaster and the unknown figure inform them of their game and give them the terrible parameters of the contest: should the Grandmaster win, his brother The Collector will be returned to life; if the unknown figure wins, all life on Earth will remain suspended in stasis forever. Choosing to throw the matches is not an option. Both celestial figures choose 12 heroes each and task them with finding the pieces of the Golden Globe of Life, which are scattered across the Earth.
Few things can bring as much action and suspense as a well-written crossover event. Reading a favorite hero’s stories is already great enough. But a whole roster of heroes, all together and working as one? Of the many crossover events fans have enjoyed over the years, there’s one that helped set the bar not just for Marvel, but for the entire industry. Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions is not only the publisher’s very first limited series but is also the very first major crossover event in the history of the company.
1982’s Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions (by Mark Gruenwald, Bill Mantlo, Steven Grant, and Bob Layton) was a major undertaking for Marvel Comics upon its release. Marvel’s heroes had teamed up together to fight evil as far back as the late ’60s with heroes like Daredevil, the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, and more coming together. Even the wedding of Reed and Sue Richards posed as one of Marvel’s first important crossover events as it brought nearly every element of the Marvel universe together in one story. What sets Contest of Champions apart from previous stories and publications like Marvel-Two-In-One and Marvel Team-Up is that it didn’t just bring together a mere handful of heroes: it brought them all.
The Grandmaster and the unknown figure inform them of their game and give them the terrible parameters of the contest: should the Grandmaster win, his brother The Collector will be returned to life; if the unknown figure wins, all life on Earth will remain suspended in stasis forever. Choosing to throw the matches is not an option. Both celestial figures choose 12 heroes each and task them with finding the pieces of the Golden Globe of Life, which are scattered across the Earth.
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