NEVER WAS: Marvel Super Heroes Summer Olympics

via 13th Dimension : The inside back cover of Marvel Treasury Edition #25 promises an even bigger sequel, Marvel Super-Heroes at the Summer Olympics. Don’t remember this book? Don’t fret, because, like the USA’s participation in the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics, it never happened. America and more than 60 nations boycotted the ’80 games in Moscow to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the comic was cancelled. The art and story for the failed Marvel Summer Olympics sequel was revised and eventually saw print in 1982 as Marvel Super-Hero Contest of Champions, guest-starring nearly every single active super-hero and team in the Marvel U, plus a slew of international heroes created especially for the event. Contest of Champions made comics history as the first all-inclusive company event, as Marvel Comics’ very first limited series — and as the story that erroneously awarded the titular contest to the wrong side because the results, a best out of four, weren’t counted correctly. Well, perhaps it’s best that they left the tallying of scores at the Summer Olympics to the professionals, then.