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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

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