This was absurdly cheap ($9) on Amazon. Sufficiently so that I didn’t actually completely believe that I’d get them, as-advertised. But they arrived, and they really are what they said they were: a complete run of a six-part Champions RPG series from Eclipse Comics. Each issue has stats in the back for a featured character and everything.
Maybe I’m just a niche market, but this price was nowhere near my have-to-think-about-it threshold. On the other hand, according to one guide I could have picked up the whole thing individually for three bucks an issue, plus shipping. On the gripping hand, it’s still an absolute steal.
Ooh, is that the “Bad guys take over the hero’s tower, newbie heroes applying to join have to save the day” one? Pretty sure I’ve got at least part of that stowed away somewhere.
Hmm. Or was that Villains and Vigilantes? Dang. Now I need to go through some old comics.
I think you’re describing a published Champions adventure that a friend of mine used to own. These appear to be the very real comic books based on the Champions setting.
They absolutely are: I recognized some of the costume designs.
There’s a comic mini-series based on that adventure, that was more a “get to know the setting” kind of thing than “the next great american novel.” Like a lot of gamer fiction.
This one is apparently about Foxbat and DEMON trying to steal a magical crown. I haven’t had a chance to really get into them yet.
That was the V&V series. I remember that one. Based off of “Crisis at Crusader Citadel.” Condor and Shatterman were the newbies, IIRC.