{"id":32520,"date":"2025-03-29T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=32520"},"modified":"2025-03-28T18:44:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:44:03","slug":"marvel-team-up-marvel-masterworks-volume-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2025\/03\/29\/marvel-team-up-marvel-masterworks-volume-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Team-Up Marvel Masterworks volume 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Chris Claremont<\/strong>, Bill Kunkel<\/strong>, Bill Mantlo<\/strong>, Gary Friedrich<\/strong>, Ralph Macchio<\/strong>, John Byrne<\/strong>, Dave Wenzel<\/strong>, Jim Mooney<\/strong>, Kerry Gammill<\/strong>, Bob Hall<\/strong>, Marie Severin<\/strong>, Howard Chaykin<\/strong>, Jeff Aclin<\/strong>, Dave Hunt<\/strong>, Bob Wiacek<\/strong>, Ricardo Villamonte<\/strong>, Tony DeZu\u00f1iga<\/strong>, Dan Green<\/strong> & various (MARVEL)
\nISBN: 978-1-3029-3324-1 (HB\/Digital edition)<\/p>\n

This book includes Discriminatory Content<\/strong> produced in less enlightened times<\/em><\/p>\n

The concept of team-ups – an established star pairing or battling (usually both) with new or less well-selling company characters – has been with us since the earliest days of comics, but making the brief encounter\/temporary alliance a key selling point really took hold with DC\u2019s The Brave and the Bold<\/strong> before being taken up by their biggest competitor.<\/p>\n

Marvel Team-Up<\/strong> was the second regular Spider-Man<\/strong> title, launched as 1971 ended. A big hit, it proved the time had finally come for expansion and offering a venue for uncomplicated action romps to supplement the company\u2019s complex subplot fare in regular books. However, even in an infinite Marvel Multiverse, certain stars shine more brightly than others and some characters turn up in team-ups more often than others. In recent years, carefully curated themed collections from the back-catalogue have served to initiate new readers intrigued by Marvel\u2019s Movie and TV endeavours, but there\u2019s no real substitute for seeing Marvel\u2019s continuity unfolding in chronological order. This compelling compilation gathers the contents of Marvel Team-Up<\/strong> #65-77, collectively covering January 1977 to January 1979 and – following Chris Claremont\u2019s Introduction offering fond remembrances of the times and key writer Bill Mantlo – opens onto a period of superior sagas.<\/p>\n

After a short and sweet flurry of original adventures in his own UK title, Captain Britain <\/strong>eventually succumbed to the English version of funnybook limbo: his title subsumed by a more successful one with CB<\/strong> reduced to reprints. Soon after, he pyrrhically debuted across the water in Marvel Team-Up<\/strong> #65 \u2018Introducing Captain Britain\u2019<\/em> by originating scripter Claremont and British-born, Canada-bred illustrator John Byrne. The story depicts exchange student Brian Braddock<\/em> on transfer to Manhattan and the unsuspecting houseguest of Peter Parker<\/em>. Before long the heroes formally meet, fight and unite to defeat flamboyant games-obsessed hit-man Arcade<\/em>, with the transatlantic tussle concluding in #66 as the abducted antagonists systematically dismantled the mercenary maniac\u2019s \u2018Murderworld\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The mystery of a long-vanished feline were-woman warrior is then resolved in \u2018Tigra, Tigra, Burning Bright!\u2019<\/em> as the webslinger is targeted by Kraven the Hunter<\/em>, using the Feline Fury as his enslaved attack beast until Spider-Man breaks her conditioning, after which Claremont, Byrne & Bob Wiacek explore \u2018The Measure of a Man!\u2019<\/em> in #68. Here, the Amazing Arachnid philanthropically returns the captive Man-Thing<\/strong> to his Florida swamp habitat. Of course, no good deed ever goes unpunished and soon he encounters horrific demon D\u2019Spayre <\/em>torturing benevolent enchanters Dakimh<\/em> and Jennifer Kale<\/em>. It takes every ounce of courage both man and monster possess to defeat the sadistic feeder on torment…
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\nA clash with Egyptian-themed thieves next draws Spidey into the years-long duel between cosmic powered X-Man Havoc<\/strong> and his nemesis the Living Monolith<\/em> in \u2018Night of the Living God!\u2019 <\/em>(inked by Ricardo Villamonte), but when the battle turns against them, it requires the thunderous might of Thor<\/strong> to stop the ravening mutant menace in \u2018Whom Gods Destroy!\u2019<\/em> (Claremont, Byrne & Tony DeZu\u00f1iga).<\/p>\n

This epic clash signalled an end to the creative team\u2019s good times as MTU<\/strong> downshifted to short filler tales. Courtesy of Bill Kunkel, Dave Wenzel & Dan Green, Spidey and The Falcon<\/strong> save Captain America<\/strong> from death by poison by a minor villain with big plans in #71\u2019s \u2018Deathgarden\u2019 <\/em>after which beloved Police officer Jean DeWolff<\/em> features heavily in the psionic rogue The Wraith<\/em>\u2019s demented revenge plot \u2018Crack of the Whip!\u2019 <\/em>(#72 by Bill Mantlo & Jim Mooney) which sees the wallcrawler linking up with Iron Man<\/strong> to mangle Maggia<\/em> stooges and assassin-for-hire Whiplash<\/em>.<\/p>\n

MTU<\/strong> #73 paired the webslinger with old frenemy Daredevil<\/em> in a workmanlike thriller by Gary Friedrich, Kerry Gammill & Don Perlin as vicious gang leader The Owl<\/em> returned in \u2018A Fluttering of Wings Most Foul!\u2019<\/em> and a flurry of frenzied felonious forays, setting the scene for a minor mirth-quake. Long embargoed and seemingly lost due to intellectual rights issues, lost gem \u2018Live From New York, Its Saturday Night!\u2019<\/em> depicts a comedy of errors set on an ongoing TV sensation. Starring Spider-Man and the Not-Ready-for-Prime-Time-Players<\/em> (Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Bill Murray, Laraine Newman, Gilda Radner & Lorne Michaels), the sinister Silver Samurai <\/em>searches for his missing teleportation ring takes place live to a totally oblivious TV audience and temporary host Stan Lee. The manic episode is written by Claremont and a triumph of caricaturing brilliance for Bob Hall & majestic Marie Severin.
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\nAssisted by Ralph Macchio, Claremont then reunited with Byrne and inker Al Gordon to team up in tribute to the New York Fire Department with #75\u2019s \u2018The Smoke of That Great Burning!\u2019<\/em> wherein Spider-Man and Hero for Hire Luke Cage<\/strong> are caught up in a robbery and hostage crisis which soon turns into a major conflagration\u2026<\/p>\n

The collection closes with a continued tale co-starring mystic master Dr. Strange<\/strong> and Clea<\/em>, \u00a0Ms. Marvel<\/strong> (AKA Carol Danvers<\/em> the present-day Captain Marvel<\/strong>), in what I\u2019m guessing was intended as an annual before being chopped in two. Limned by Howard Chaykin, Jeff Aclin & Jose Ortiz, \u2018If Not For Love…\u2019<\/em> and second chapter \u2018Death Waits at Bayou Diable!\u2019<\/em> sees the mundane mortal metahumans stumble into an attempt to murder the Sorcerer Supreme and his disciple, leading Spidey, Ms. M and a much reduced Stephen Strange<\/em> south to Bourbon Street and a risky rendezvous with voodoo practitioner Marie Laveau, Witch Queen of New Orleans<\/em>. Sadly, she is far more than she seems and the trio are trapped in a scheme perpetrated by magic-loathing sorcerer Silver Dagger<\/em> leading to astounding arcane action in #77\u2019s \u2018If I\u2019m to Live… My Love Must Die!\u2019<\/em>
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\nThis epic edition is packed with rarely-seen extras, beginning with \u2018Aunt May\u2019s Photo Album\u2019<\/em>: a selection of stills from the 1977-1979 Spider-Man television show as originally published in Marvel Treasury Edition<\/strong> #18 (1978). It\u2019s followed by that album\u2019s covers, illustrated by Bob Budiansky & Ernie Chan, and a large selection of original art pages and covers by Byrne, Hunt, Dave Cockrum, Tom Palmer & Mooney. A gallery of covers from Marvel Tales<\/strong> (#193-207, 235-236) by Ron Frenz, Josef Rubinstein, John Romita Sr., Mark Bright, Vince Colletta, Mark McKenna George Perrez, Joe Sinnott, Joe Albeo, Byrne, Frank Giacoia, Hall, Todd McFarlane & Sam Keith, spanning November 1986 to November 1991 follows a rare treat: a selection of Byrne\u2019s un-inked pencil pages.<\/p>\n

A series of short stories from Marvel Tales (<\/strong>#255, 262 & 263) based on earlier MTU<\/strong> stories ends this tome. \u2018Shock Therapy\u2019<\/em> by Scott Lobdell, Vince Evans & Phil Sheehy reveals a clash between the Trapster<\/strong> and Ghost Rider<\/strong>, whilst Barry Dutter & Vince Evans\u2019 \u2018A Case of Sunstroke\u2019<\/em> shows what happened to the X-Men<\/strong> after MTU Annual<\/strong> #2, whilst Woodgod<\/strong> runs wild again in \u2018The Scream\u2019<\/em> by Lobdell, Robert Walker & Jim Sanders.<\/p>\n

These tales are generally superb examples of Marvel\u2019s Second Wave, Bronze Age yarns fans will find little to complain about. Although not perhaps a book for casual or more maturely-oriented readers there\u2019s lots of fun on hand and young readers – or Marvel Cinematic supporters – will have a blast, so why not consider this tome for your \u201cMust-Have\u201d library?
\n\u00a9 2023 MARVEL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Chris Claremont, Bill Kunkel, Bill Mantlo, Gary Friedrich, Ralph Macchio, John Byrne, Dave Wenzel, Jim Mooney, Kerry Gammill, Bob Hall, Marie Severin, Howard Chaykin, Jeff Aclin, Dave Hunt, Bob Wiacek, Ricardo Villamonte, Tony DeZu\u00f1iga, Dan Green & various (MARVEL) ISBN: 978-1-3029-3324-1 (HB\/Digital edition) This book includes Discriminatory Content produced in less enlightened times The … <\/p>\n

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