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Super-Villain Team-Up is the name of two American comic book series published by Marvel Comics. Both series featured supervillains as the protagonists.
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Super-Villain Team-Up
The first series started in 1975 with two giant-size issues before starting as a regular series, and was mostly bi-monthly during its existence. It initially teamed up Doctor Doom and Sub-Mariner, who had lost his own series, from which it picked up the unresolved plots, especially that of the comatose Atlanteans. After a continual succession of writers and artists and a crossover with The Avengers, the plot gets resolved in issue #13 when Dr. Doom revives the Atlanteans, thus dissolving his alliance with Sub-Mariner. The Sub-Mariner plot continued in The Defenders after which the character became an infrequent guest-star in the Marvel Universe.
Issue #14 (Oct. 1977), which featured Magneto and Dr. Doom, was billed as the final issue of the series,Mantlo, Bill. "Bad Tidings," Super-Villain Team-Up #14 (Marvel Comics, Oct. 1977). and its plot-line was resolved in Champions #16. Inexplicably, SVTU continued with issue #15 (Nov. 1978), a reprint of Astonishing Tales #4-5, and issues #16-17, which featured the Red Skull and the Hate-Monger. The final issue, #17, was cover-dated June 1980, more than a year after #16 (May 1979).
The series saw the death of 1940s Sub-mariner sweetheart Betty Dean and the gruesome death of her murderer, Dr. Dorcas. Steve Englehart created The Shroud,Super-Villain Team-Up #5, (April 1976) a character partly inspired by Batman,Cronin, Brian shortly before he started to work for DC Comics on Detective Comics.
The series has been collected in an Essential Marvel volume.
Issues
- Super-Villain Team-Up #1 - Doctor Doom and Namor vs. Attuma, Doctor Lemuel Dorcas, and Tiger Shark
- Super-Villain Team-Up #2 - Doctor Doom and Namor vs. Attuma, Doctor Lemuel Dorcas, and Tiger Shark
- Super-Villain Team-Up #3 - Doctor Doom and Namor vs. Attuma, Doctor Lemuel Dorcas, and Tiger Shark
- Super-Villain Team-Up #4 - Doctor Doom vs. Namor
- Super-Villain Team-Up #5 - Doctor Doom and Namor vs. Fantastic Four
- Super-Villain Team-Up #6 - Doctor Doom and Namor vs. Fantastic Four and Shroud
- Super-Villain Team-Up #7 - Doctor Doom and Namor vs. Shroud
- Super-Villain Team-Up #8 - Doctor Doom and Namor vs. Ringmaster
- Super-Villain Team-Up #9 - Doctor Doom vs. Attuma
- Super-Villain Team-Up #10 - Doctor Doom vs. Red Skull
- Super-Villain Team-Up #11 - Doctor Doom and Namor vs. Red Skull
- Super-Villain Team-Up #12 - Doctor Doom vs. Red Skull
- Super-Villain Team-Up #13 - Doctor Doom and Namor vs. Warlord Krang
- Super-Villain Team-Up #14 - Doctor Doom vs. Magneto
- Super-Villain Team-Up #15 - Doctor Doom vs. Red Skull
- Super-Villain Team-Up #16 - Red Skull and Hate-Monger
- Super-Villain Team-Up #17 - Red Skull, Hate-Monger, and Arnim Zola
MODOK's 11
This 2007 mini-series features eleven super-villains in the manner of the movie Ocean's Eleven.
Doctor Doom and the Masters of Evil
This 2009 mini-series features Doctor Doom working with other villains.
Issues
- Doctor Doom and the Masters of Evil #1 - Doctor Doom collaborates with the Sinister Six (Doctor Octopus, Chameleon, Kraven the Hunter, Mysterio, Sandman, and Vulture)
- Doctor Doom and the Masters of Evil #2 - Doctor Doom collaborates with the Circus of Crime to beat Baron Zemo's Masters of Evil to a Hittie temple.
- Doctor Doom and the Masters of Evil #3 - Doctor Doom and his "Masters of Evil" clash with Blastaar.
- Doctor Doom and the Masters of Evil #4 - Doctor Doom collaborates with Magneto and Princess Python to steal an item from Selene.