Marvel TEAM-Up

Marvel TEAM-Up is a series of cartoon of Marvel Comics.

The first series

Marvel TEAM-Up is historically the first title " spin-off" (i.e. derived) of Amazing Spider-Man . To the departure copied on the model of the review Brave man & the Bold of cd. Comics (which presented Batman out of tandem with other characters), the series presents Spider-Man in duet with Human Torch, member of the Fantastic Four. The first episode is published in March 1972; The series will last 150 numbers, and will die out in February 1985, to be replaced by Web off Spider-Man .

It is the draftsman Ross Andru who carries out the first episodes, putting in the high-speed motorboat Spider-Man and Human Torch. Quickly, Spider-Man draws the cover with him. However, several episodes will put in the high-speed motorboat Human Torch, and, later, Hulk. But Spider-Man remains the large high-speed motorboat of the title.

The challenge suggested to the scenario writers is to write adventures which concentrate on Spider-Man (events related to the private life of Peter Parker being held in Amazing Spider-Man), and, if possible, to tell adventures to be followed and to make come, with each new episode, a different hero. Ross Andru and Jim Mooney will be the two most notable authors of the first numbers, helped from time to time by sizes like Gil Kane.

Bill Mantlo, often helped from the draftsman Sal Buscema, will draw very well from this schedule of conditions hardly comfortable, involving Spider-Man in temporal adventures, in particular with Scarlet Witch, Vision or Doctor Doom. The series makes it possible to make discover with the readers of the characters or the concepts less popular than Spider-Man itself. Sometimes even, the series accommodates stories or intrigues which did not find resolution elsewhere. The Manto/Buscema tandem will deliver many episodes to the completely pleasant reading.

The draftsman John Byrne, who began a fertile career on titles like Iron Fist, arrives at number 53, joined soon by his accomplice Chris Claremont, scenario writer with whom he worked already on Iron Fist, and will make some great episodes of the X-Men. Together, they will leave a beautiful skewer of episodes full with action. Claremont will only continue, and will manage even with mischievousness to play with the private life of Peter Parker, contrary to the leading instructions.

Later, the series will be marked by the scenario writers Steven Grant, Jean-Marc DeMatteis and Louise Simonson. But it is advisable to announce that the leading framing will not manage to recreate artistic teams as fertile as those which had animated the first years of the series.

Missed returns

A series entitled Spider-Man TEAM-Up , whose title will rather try miser on the presence of the gossamer-like hero than on the memory left by Marvel TEAM-Up , left in December 1995. Number 7, the last of the series, appear in June 1996.

A second series Marvel TEAM-Up will be launched in September 1997 and will last eleven numbers, until July 1998. Without real leading direction (moreover difficult to find with such a concept), the series disappeared in a certain indifference.

Ultimate Marvel TEAM-Up

In 2001, a new baptized grinding Ultimate Marvel TEAM-Up will be launched within the framework of the new continuity Ultimate Marvel. The series will last 16 episodes, scenarized by Brian Michael Bendis and drawn by several artists (Terry Moore, Mike Allred, Ted McKeever,…) mainly resulting from the independent mediums, putting each one in scene the recontre between Ultimate Spider-Man and another hero, such as the Man-Thing, Daredevil, Elektra.

The series, which will pose problems of coherence to the new universe, will stop fault of satisfactory sales. She will be concluded by Ultimate Spider-Man Super Special , a one-shot to which contributed of many artists.

She was completely translated in numbers 1 to 5 of the review Ultimate Spider-Man Except Série of Panini.

Topicality

In 2005, Marvel launches the third grinding of Marvel TEAM-Up , this time entrusted to a young scenario writer who goes up, Robert Kirkman, whose love and respect for these characters are a pledge of enthusiasm and invention. Helped by Scott Kolins with the drawing, Robert Kirkman uses a casting swindling characters, in order to vary the situations, but Spider-Man preserves the main role at it, generally.

Bonds

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