Comics Corner: Marvel Team-Up 137

   

Title: Marvel Team-Up
Issue Number: 137
Release Date: January 1984

Highlights

  • Assistant Editor's Month
  • First appearance several multiverse Earth 8417 characters; Aunt May (as Golden Oldie), Franklin Richards, Spider-Man, Mary Jan Watson, Mister Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Human Torch, Thing, Dough Boy The Creator, Galactus, Nova, Nathan Lubensky, and Arthur Checkov
  • First appearance of the Tumbla, and Tumbla V Andromeda galaxies
  • Appearances from Jim Shooter, Stan Lee, and Danny Fingeroth
  • Garfield appears as a toy
  • Death of Nova
  • Peter takes his Aunt May to the circus, and she brings Mary Jane along
  • The Fantastic Four are also at the circus
  • Aunt May offers to babysit Franklin when Reed informs the others they are needed in San Diego immediately
  • Franklin offers Galactus a package of Twinkies for his hunger
  • Twinkies become Galactus's new desire, and he sends Golden Oldie out to obtain all she can find
  • Golden Oldie flies out into space to find more sustenance for Galactus, and finds Dough Boy, who makes cream filled sponge cake planets
  • Dough Boy says he would be honored to be Galactus's new herald, and provide him with all the cake planets he wants
  • Aunt May is released as Galactus's hearld, and told she can keep her powers, doing with them as she pleases for her loyal services
  • Franklin absorbs all of Golden Oldies cosmic powers, returning Aunt May back to normal
  • Reference is made to Fantastic Four 256, and Dazzler 30
  • Despite its goofy nature, the story isn't intended to be a hoax or What If, rather, it's truly part of the continuity of Marvel
Low Points
  • None
Oddities
  • None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)



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