Essential Super-villain Team-up: v. 1

Product Group: Book
Publisher: Panini (UK) Ltd. (2004-11-13)
ISBN: 1904159737
EAN: 9781904159735
Dewy Decimal #: 741
Paperback: 552 pages

Customer Reviews

Doctor Doom and the Sub-Mariner with a few guests.
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Date: 2007-11-10

Included here are the solo Doctor Doom tales from Astonishing Tales, the first 17 issues of the Super Villain Team-Up series and some Avengers and Champions tie-ins.
The solo Doom tales include the Red Skull, Black Panther and even Satan as well as introducing the android Doomsman. Doom is shown as having a well hidden sentimental side especially towards his dead mother and his lost love Valeria.
With Namor he has a love-hate relationship which sees them as allies and enemies as they take on a number of Namor's foes, Attuma, Dr. Dorcas, Tiger Shark and later on Krang as Namor tries to rescue the people of Atlantis who are held in suspended animation.
Back on dry land the Fantastic Four and the Avengers assist as does an odd Batman style creation The Shroud, the number of times characters switch allegiance is amazing and often confusing. The Red Skull appears in two great stories late on, one with Captain America and the other as he and the Hate Monger try to re-create the Cosmic Cube, with SHIELD putting an appearance in.
There are even appearances by Henry Kissinger and Jimmy Carter which effectively helps to date these tales. These tales interlink with many other Marvel stories of that era, the flashbacks assist but new readers would be assisted by a little background research. The artwork is patchy in places with so many different artists used but by and large the complexity of these tales more than makes up for that.

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