The Toy Box: Comics Corner: Marvel Team-Up Annual 7

Title: Marvel Team-Up Annual
Issue Number: 7
Release Date: October 1984

Highlights

First appearance of Pearl of Great Price, an extraterrestrial clam, Snake-Eyes, no not the one from G.I. Joe, and the creatures, Venusian Shock-Flies, and Xanthian Boulder-Crushers
The last Marvel Team-Up Annual in the series
Joe Robertson tells Peter to put in a voucher for his photos, but that he's not going to continue printing about Spider-Man if it's not news worthy, and encourages Peter to get photos of other super heroes
Reference is made to Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars, Alpha Flight 3 - 5, and 12
The Collector wants Spider-Man for his collection, and traps him in Pearl of Great Price
The Collector then traps the Plodex, Marinna, using Snake-Eyes to disable her with hypnotism
Alpha Flight continue to bicker amongst themselves, despite the recent death of Guardian
Alpha Flight infiltrate The Collector's ship
Sasquatch goes berserk from the consistent taunting of Northstar, and trashes the ship, destroying the crystals which power it, and the containment unit that holds many Plodex creatures
Spider-Man smashes the Collector's flute, just as he awakens Snake-Eyes again
Spider-Man webs Snake-Eye's face, blocking his vision, however the beast is completely out of control, and does his part to destroy the ship
The Plodex turn into monsters, and begin attacking everyone and everything

Low Points

Northstar continues to taunt Sasquatch, trying to bring out the beast in him so that his sister Aurora sees it, and preferably leaves the beast
Way too much going on in this issue
The Collector reveals that the reason he is collecting around all the universes is that he saw a vision of a demon setting fire to the universe, and the creatures he collects will serve to repopulate after the destruction
Very long, and a bit boring
This was my first taste of Alpha Flight, and I'm not a fan

Oddities

Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)

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