Champions Vol 1 5

Champions #5
Previous Issue	Champions #4
Next Issue	Champions #6
Art by: Rich Buckler and Dan Adkins
Release Date	January 20, 1976
Cover Date	April, 1976

1. ""The Economy Is So Bad That…""
Appearances · Synopsis
Writer(s)	Tony Isabella
Penciler(s)	Don Heck
Inker(s)	John Tartag
Colorist(s)	Janice Cohen
Letterer(s)	John Costanza Irv Watanabe
Editor(s)	Marv Wolfman

By the gods, the man is crazed!

—Hercules

Appearing in ""The Economy Is So Bad That…""

Featured Characters:

• Champions
  • Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff)
  • Angel (Warren Worthington III)
  • Iceman (Bobby Drake)
  • Hercules
  • Ghost Rider (Johnny Blaze) (Only in flashback) (Possessed by ⏴ Zarathos ⏵)

Supporting Characters:

• Ivan Petrovich
• Richard Fenster

Antagonists:

• Rampage (Stuart Clarke) (First appearance)

Other Characters:

• Emerson Bale (First appearance)
• Amos Crawley (First appearance)
• Rose (First appearance)
• Anna (First appearance)
• UCLA football players
• Edward Lansing (Only in flashback)
• his mutates (Only in flashback)
• X-Men (Mentioned)
• Avengers (Mentioned)
• Daredevil (Matt Murdock) (Mentioned)
• Stark Industries (Referenced)
  • Iron Man (Tony Stark) (Referenced)
• Roxxon (Referenced)
• Ares (Mentioned)

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Mutants
• Human-Olympian Hybrids
• Demons (Only in flashback)

Locations:

• Earth
  • North America
    • United States of America
      • California
        • Los Angeles County
          • Los Angeles
            • Westwood
              • UCLA Campus
            • Clarke Futuristics (First appearance)
            • Champions Headquarters
      • Fort Knox (Mentioned)
      • Washington, D.C. (Mentioned)
• Olympus (Mentioned)

Items:

• X-Uniforms
• Black Widow's Gauntlets
• Rampage Exo-Skeleton (First appearance)

Synopsis for ""The Economy Is So Bad That…""

Angel finds out how much money he's inheriting from his parents and plans to use it to incorporate the Champions into a storefront superhero service. He recruits Richard Fenster as their Business Manager after he gets fired from the UCLA due to the damages caused in the first issue. Meanwhile, industrialist Stuart Clarke finds out he will have to declare bankruptcy due to the recession, so he dons the powered exoskeleton he had developed and robs a bank. The Champions fight against him until he captures Angel as a hostage.

Notes

• Watanabe is uncredited.
• This issue contains a letters page, Cables of Champions. Letters are published from Larry Twiss, Brett Slack, Joseph Noke, and Martin Greene.

Trivia

• This issue contains a Series "B" Marvel Value Stamp: #77 Dracula.

See Also

• 9 image(s) from Champions Vol 1 5
• 2 reprint(s) of Champions Vol 1 5

Links and References

• Marvel Value Stamp Site [1]