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Comic book limited series

Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions is a three issue comic book limited series published from June to August 1982 by Marvel Comics. The series was written by Mark Gruenwald, with art by John Romita Jr. and Bob Layton. This series was significant as it was Marvel's first published limited series. Contest of Champions brought forth the idea of a major event affecting the Marvel Universe; it introduced crossovers before the concept of multi title crossovers was even conceived. An unrelated five issue limited series published in 1999, Contest of Champions II, is a sequel in title only.

The story was intended to be a celebration of the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, and depicted Marvel superheroes engaging in competitions. The plan was scuttled when the United States refused to participate in the summer games, as a protest against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in late 1979. The comic was already mostly complete, so Marvel published Contest of Champions two years later, with a reworked storyline that avoided any connection to the Olympics.

In the aftermath of Secret Wars, the Collector and Grandmaster put in motion another Contest of Champions. They use the remnants of Doom's Battleworld as their base of operations which becomes known as the Battlerealm, with the prize being an artifact called the Iso Sphere.

A version of the Contest of Champions storyline was adapted in Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes. In this version, the Grandmaster pits the Fantastic Four against Ronan the Accuser, Impossible Man, Annihilus, and the Super Skrull. In the end, the Thing defeats Ronan and saves Earth from destruction. A variation of the Contest of Champions was adapted in the self titled four part season three finale of Ultimate Spider Man. As opposed to the comic book storyline, Spider Man teams up with the Avengers, the New Warriors, the Agents of S. M. A. S. H., and the Collector to save Earth from the Grandmaster and his army of supervillains. Ultimately, Spider Man and the Collector defeat the Grandmaster and saves Earth from destruction.

In Thor: Ragnarok, the Contest of Champions is the name of the gladiatorial event the Grandmaster runs on Sakaar. In the film, Thor is forced to do battle with the Hulk in the contest.

The comic book was adapted into a 2014 fighting game for Android and iOS with a similar title, Marvel: Contest of Champions.

Scott Lobdell began submitting stories for Marvel, based on these characters for short stories in Marvel Comics Presents.