Super-Villain Team-Up
| Super-Villain Team-Up | |
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Giant-Size Super-Villain Team-Up #2. Cover art by Gil Kane.
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
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Giant-Size Super-Villain Team-Up: Quarterly Super-Villain Team-Up: Bimonthly (#1-14) Irregularly (#15-17) Super-Villain Team-Up: MODOK's 11: Monthly |
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Super-Villain Team-Up: Ongoing series Super-Villain Team-Up: MODOK's 11: Limited series |
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Giant-Size Super-Villain Team-Up: March 1975 - June 1975 Super-Villain Team-Up: August 1975 - June 1980 Super-Villain Team-Up: MODOK's 11: July 2007 - November 2007 |
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Giant-Size Super-Villain Team-Up: 2 Super-Villain Team-Up: 17 Super-Villain Team-Up: MODOK's 11: 5 |
| Main character(s) |
Super-Villain Team-Up: Doctor Doom Namor Super-Villain Team-Up: MODOK's 11: MODOK Puma Mentallo Armadillo Chameleon Deadly Nightshade Living Laser Rocket Racer Spot |
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| Essential Super-Villain Team-Up | |
| Super-Villain Team-Up: MODOK's 11 | |
Super-Villain Team-Up is the name of two American comic book series published by Marvel Comics. Both series featured supervillains as the protagonists.
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 the Sub-Mariner, who had lost his own series, from which it picked up the unresolved plots, especially that of the comatose Atlanteans. After a 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 the Sub-Mariner.
Issue #14 (Oct. 1977), which featured Magneto and Dr. Doom, was billed as the final issue of the series, and its plot-line was resolved in The Champions #16. The following year, SVTU continued with issue #15 (Nov. 1978), a reprint of Astonishing Tales #4-5. Issues #16 (May 1979) and #17 (June 1980) featured the Red Skull and the Hate-Monger. The irregular publishing frequency of the final three issues was due to a legal maneuver to prevent DC Comics from trademarking the term "super-villain".
The series saw the death of the Sub-Mariner's 1940s sweetheart Betty Dean and the death of her murderer, Dr. Dorcas. Steve Englehart created The Shroud, a character partly inspired by Batman, shortly before he started to work for DC Comics on Detective Comics.
In 2007 Marvel published Super-Villain Team-Up: MODOK's 11, a five-issue mini-series featuring eleven supervillains in the manner of the movie Ocean's Eleven.
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