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

• None

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Comics Corner: Marvel Team-Up Annual 6

   

Title: Marvel Team-Up Annual
Issue Number: 6
Release Date: October 1983

Highlights

• First appearance of the Holy Ghost Church
• Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 64
• Cannonball, Psyche, Sunspot, and Wolfsbane, AKA the New Mutants, make their way to the city to enjoy the broadway show, Cats
• While visiting an arcade, the Mutants are attacked by random thugs
• Sunspot and Wolfsbane not only get wounded during the fight, but then are kidnapped by the people who created Cloak and Dagger
• The two captives are injected with the drug that made Cloak and Dagger, and it amplifies their mutant powers beyond their control
• Cloak and Dagger save Sunspot and Wolfsbane, absorbing the drugs from their bodies
• The New Mutants offer Cloak and Dagger an opportunity to come live with them at Xavier's mansion, but they decline

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• None

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Comics Corner: Marvel Team-Up Annual 5

   

Title: Marvel Team-Up Annual
Issue Number: 5
Release Date: November 1982

Highlights

• First appearance of Scully, Hassl, Melvin, and Atra
• Reference is made to Marvel Two-In-One 66, 67, and Marvel Team-Up 111
• Wanda and Vision are at a movie theater watching Raiders Of The Lost Ark
• A movie theater poster says Conan is coming soon

Low Points

• Kind of boring

Oddities

• Spider-Man, Thing and Scarlet Witch are all holding the cosmic cube, but only Spider-Man's clothing gets torn up when it lets out a giant blast

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Comics Corner: Marvel Team-Up Annual 2

   

Title: Marvel Team-Up Annual
Issue Number: 2
Release Date: October 1979

Highlights

• First appearance of Nikolai Kutzov, and Colonel Alexei Vazhin
• Last appearance of Cissy Ironwood
• First appearance and death of Daniel Ironwood
• Cissy and Peter are dating - Well, for this issue anyway

Low Points

• Boring

Oddities

• Editor's Day Off: Spider-Man's parachute backpack disappears from his back in multiple panels -While he's parachuting
• Editor's Still Off: Several panels with Spider-Man's eye lenses colored red

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Comics Corner: Marvel Team-Up Annual 1

   

Title: Marvel Team-Up Annual 1
Issue Number: 1
Release Date: January 1977

Highlights

• First appearance of Mara the Dreamer, Rakks, Shiva the Destroyer, Yama Dharma, Vishnu the Preserver, Ratri the Night, Kali the Black Madness, Brahma the Creator, and Agni Lord of Fire
• First appearance and death of Stephen Marchesi
• Reference is made to Marvel Team-Up 4, Fantastic Four 166, X-Men 97, and The Amazing Spider-Man 162

Low Points

• Ending is convoluted, see oddities
• I am not a fan of the X-Men

Oddities

• Who gave the thumbs up on the Dr. Seuss style helicopter?

• Wolverine goes from street clothes aboard a crashing plane to suddenly in his yellow costume once it has crashed with no mention as to why or how he chose such an odd time span to change clothes
• Anti-radiation spray...Yep, just spray it on like sunscreen, and you're good to go for one hour in any scenario that may have dangerous radiation as an obstacle - Marvel's been watching too many re-runs of the '66 Batman show
• In the end, Spider-Man and Cyclops seem to have the same conclusion as to how to send the gods to space, but the overall plan is so convoluted, there's no way they had the same idea at the same time - It involves every member of the X-Men, along with Spider-Man, using their powers in a specific sequence to blast them through Cyclops optics into the heavens

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