![]() By demonstrating such versatility and a knack to draw all of Marvel's big names, Romita Jr. However, his three-issue Contest of Champions stint afforded him the opportunity to illustrate nearly every Marvel superhero of note from the early 80s, including pages that featured multiple heroes engaged in combat. was still in the infancy of his career when he and Bob Layton provided pencils and inks respectively for Mark Gruenwald's script. As such, Contest of Champions laid the groundwork for long-running miniseries like Secret Wars I and II, which in turn inspired the comic book industry's "big event" mentality that is still very prevalent today. ![]() ![]() ![]() While this 1982 miniseries may not be very memorable for its story – the Grandmaster and Death use a bunch of Marvel heroes as champions to duke it out over the fate of the Collector – it is historically significant as it is the very first limited series that Marvel ever published. ![]()
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