Comics Corner: Marvel Team-Up 142

   

Title: Marvel Team-Up
Issue Number: 142
Release Date: June 1984

Highlights

  • First appearance of the Herman Metzler, and the villain team, P.R.I.D.E.: Dr. Eric Paulson, Dr. William Lorber, Al, Wally, Earl, Jimbo, and Wilt 
  • First appearance of the locations Nassau County Science Exposition, Rockafeller Center, Maritime Museum, and Paulson Foundation
  • Reference is made to Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars
  • Spider-Man faces off against P.R.I.D.E., but just as he's about to win, they fade out of existence, leaving Spidey to explain why he's the only one there to the authorities as they rush in
  • During the fight, the villains steal the technafoil from the Nassau County Science Exposition
  • P.R.I.D.E. attempts to steal the windstone from the Maritime Museum
  • Captain Marvel loses her ability to transform into energy when the villains use their vanishing device, causing her to fall out of the sky - She transforms back to light just mere seconds before hitting the ground
  • P.R.I.D.E. has built a device that will wipe millions of people off the Earth
  • The villains attack Avengers headquarters, and manage to get the windstone
  • P.R.I.D.E. (Population Reduction by Inter-Dimensional Expulsion) has built a generator that will transport millions to other dimensions, thus saving the world from overpopulation
  • With the destruction of P.R.I.D.E.'s generator Captain Marvel gets stuck in her energy form
Low Points
  • Kind of dumb
Oddities
  • None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)



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