#1980 Champions

[pinkmoongrace]

THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2 (1986)

[christiangeistdorfer]

ALAIN PROST being interviewed after winning the 1985 FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

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Bell-Ridell Holdings Inc, 1982

[oldschoolfrp]

Superheroes battle a cthulhoid monster summoned to devour San Francisco, in Steve Perrin's "The Star-Devourer," adventure for Chaosium's Superworld, Hero Games' Champions, or FGU's Villains & Vigilantes (in Different Worlds 35, July/August 1984, with Steve Purcell art)

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[vertigoartgore]

Beta Ray Bill (holding his hammer Stormbreaker for the first time) by writer/artist Walt Simonson. Interior art from 1983's Thor Vol.1 #339 (page 19). Lettering by John Workman & colors by Greg Roussos.

[twixnmix]

Mike Tyson and his wife Robin Givens photographed by Anthony Barboza for LIFE magazine at home in Los Angeles, 1988.

[themarvelproject]

Marvel house ad for Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions, the first-ever limited series from the House of Ideas (1982)

[browsethestacks]

Marvel Age (1988)

[downisupandupisdown]

Yannick Noah wins the 1983 French Open Tennis title.

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[oldschoolfrp]

Citadel Miniatures box set BC5 Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion, 1986, with Rodney Matthews box art, containing 8 figures sculpted by Jes Goodwin

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[ewzzy]

I've got this double size treasury comic called Spider-Man vs The Hulk at the Winter Olympics. It came out December 1979 in time for the 1980 Olympic Games in Lake Placid in upstate New York.

It's barely a story and very much a cash-in because the Olympics where in the USA that year. Still, I do enjoy Olympic athletes getting super weapons and forced to do evil.

This is back when Winter and Summer Olympics happened in the same year. 1994's Lillehammer games were the first to not be the same year as summer games. For now it's still 1980 and that means we've got a Summer Olympics comic to promote!

Except those summer games were held in Moscow and the USA lead a boycott where 66 countries no-showed the event. I love when there's an ad promoting a book that never comes out. Okay, so we'll delay to 1984 when it's in Los Angeles... lol no the USSR will boycott that. So before we let that ruin our major promotion we'll redraw/rewrite enough of the story to turn in into Contest of Champions!

Editor Tom Defalco claims the main reason the book ended up getting published at all was inker Pablo Marcos wasn't told to stop inking the pages and the book was half done before anyone else noticed.

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