Essential Super Villain Team Up
Essential Super Villain Team Up
Graphic Novel Summary: Written by STAN LEE, ROY THOMAS, LEN WEIN, TONY ISABELLA, GERRY CONWAY, JIM SHOOTER, MARV WOLFMAN, STEVE ENGLEHART, BILL MANTLO, ARCHIE GOODWIN & LARRY LIEBER Pencils by BILL EVERETT, GEORGE EVANS, WALLY WOOD, JOHN BUSCEMA, SAL BUSCEMA, GENE COLAN, BOB HALL, MIKE SEKOWSKY, GEORGE PEREZ, JIM SHOOTER, SAL TRAPANI, GEORGE TUSKA, GEORGE EVANS, HERB TRIMPE & KEITH GIFFEN Cover by GIL KANE The line between hero and villain can be very thin, but rarely as thin as in a book this big! The giants of the field collaborate on a war epic stretching from the towers of Doctor Doom's Latveria to the depths of Namor's Atlantis - with the Fantastic Four, the Avengers and the Champions caught in the middle! Attuma! The Red Skull! Magneto! The world is at stake, and you are there! Collects GIANT-SIZE SUPER-VILLAIN TEAM-UP #1-2, SUPER-VILLAIN TEAM-UP #1-14 and #16-17, AVENGERS #154-156, CHAMPIONS #16, and ASTONISHING TALES #1-8. 552 PGS./ALL AGES
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- Price:
$16.99$13.59- Artist:
- Bill Everett
- Author:
- Tony Isabella
- Author:
- Marv Wolfman
- Author:
- Jim Shooter
- Author:
- Len Wein
- Author:
- Stan Lee
- Artist:
- Gene Colan
- Author:
- Gerry Conway
- Artist:
- John Buscema
- Artist:
- Sal Buscema
- Artist:
- Wally Wood
- Author:
- Steve Englehart
- Author:
- Roy Thomas
- Artist:
- Bob
- Artist:
- George Evans
- Artist:
- Various
- Author:
- Various
- Cover Artist:
- Keith Giffen
- Estimated Ship Date:
- December 15, 2008
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- Genre:
- Superhero
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Customer Reviews
That's not exactly the type of stuff they're gonna advertise on the cover, but they SHOULD, dammit. Because that in a nutshell is the charm of Super-Villain Team-Up: This stuff isn't gonna earn a spot on your shelf next to Watchmen anytime soon, but it may deserve a place in the corner of your bottom shelf, where you keep the dusty old paperbacks that make you feel silly.
This, right here, is primo seventies Marvel madness: A slew of weird bits strung together by the barest suggestion of a plot, executed with artwork that verges wildly between the superheroic sublime and the simply stupid.
It's a reminder, too, that comics history isn't just stacks and stacks of great classics that we all love and read over and over and let's sing Kumbaya too, while we're at it. Those historic runs and titles stand upon the bending backs of countless other comics, books whose tales will fade quickly or slowly with the passing of time, regular dumb monthly superhero comics, churned out for decades by two major publishing houses in quantities of millions apiece.
These comics weren't great high art, agonized over by ambitious young auteurs seeking to place their creative imprint on the world. These were churned out at what was probably a frightening pace by journeymen craftsmen who knew their trade and plied it well.
That doesn't mean they're bad; it just doesn't mean they're great. Books like Super-Villain Team-Up are good, and fun, and worthy of your brainless time.
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