Credits
"The Invaders!" (10 pages) /"A Land Enslaved" (8 pages)
writer:
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Stan Lee
Roy Thomas
Len Wein
Tony Isabella
Gerry Conway
Jim Shooter
Marv Wolfman
Steve Englehart
Bill Mantlo
Archie Goodwin
Larry Lieber
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art:
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Bill Everett
George Evans
Wally Wood
John Buscema
Sal Buscema, Gene Colan
Bob Hall
Mike Sekowsky
George Perez
Pablo Marcos
Jim Shooter
Sal Trapani, George Tuska
George Evans
Herb Trimpe
Keith
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colors:
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N/A
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letters:
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Mike Stevens
Jean Simek
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editor:
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N/A
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From Silver Bullet Comics
Essential Super-Villain Team-Up: Volume 1 TPB
Posted: Wednesday, February 9
By: Shawn Hill
(excerpt)
The Astonishing Tales shorts feature wonderful work by Wally Wood, and
end on a high note with a moody Gene Colan masterpiece. Buscema amazes
in Giant-Size #1, and who dominates #2 but Justice League great Mike
Sekowsky? Herb Trimpe and Carmine Infantino had seen better days, but
Sal Buscema never looked better than he did under Pablo Marcos’s inks in
the three-part Avengers crossover (where he follows early Perez
admirably). A baby Keith Giffen did two issues of the titular book,
several months apart, with the first amateurish and rough, the second
hinting at the complexity to come. Bill Mantlo’s issues are uninspired,
but at that point guest stars galore still offered some amazing moments,
like the entire world (including the Champions and the Avengers) bowing
down at Doom’s feet, and Magneto (fresh off his revival in Uncanny
X-men) coming up with some creative ways of dealing with his enemies.
Aside from the Conway/Colan Doom story (“And Some Call it Magic”), I
wouldn’t call one of these stories classic. Marvel was straining to keep
on going, and that grab-bag approach shows very clearly. Nonetheless,
this collection is chock-full of action, characterization and intrigue,
from an ultimately fertile and experimental period.
From Big Mouth Types Again
This and that
Saturday, October 9th, 2004 — 2:19 pm
(excerpt)
A friend of mine at Marvel -- hell, my only friend at Marvel -- graced
us with a copy of the "Essential"...Super-Villain...Team-Up. Words fail
me. Actually, no they don't. This, my friends, is an ass-thick
collection of mind-numbingly half-assed overwritten and underdrawn
ding-dong comics from my childhood. Essential? To whom? Tom Brevoort and
Ralph Macchio already have all the original comics, in bags and boards,
most likely. I'm only a third of the way through this, as I'm only
reading this during bathroom stints (appropo, methinks), and if nothing
else it's a prime example of why Roy Thomas absolutely stinks as a
writer (a hackneyed overwrought style marked by grandiose Stan Leeisms
that would cause the Man himself to wince, diarrhea of the descriptive
caption, trite and dated SF homages and an overall patina of smug,
pretentious fanboy horsehockey), and how childhood nostalgia makes
people deify crappy comics.
...
The roster includes a burgeoning George Perez, early Marvel Jim Shooter
scripting AND penciling (!), a faltering and out of place Mike Sekowsky,
an interesting pairing of Johnny Craig inking John Buscema (with not
too-shabby results), Wally Wood's pretty but stiff take on Doc Doom
during his flirtation with the House of Ideas, fellow EC stablemate
George Evans proving superheroes were not his forte, Gene Colan proving
yet again that histrionic super-heroics wasn't his forte either, Marvel
stalwarts like Herb Trimpe (inked by Jim Mooney in a style that can only
be described as moribund), and George Tuska, perfunctory page-fillers
like Jack Abel, Larry Leiber, Bob Hall, and Don Perlin, early Keith
Giffen (his Kirby silly-puttying phase), Carmine Infantino looking plain
wrong in a Marvel book, and the absolute horror men call Arvell Jones
(a phantom creator whose sub-fanzine art I couldn't stand even when I
was a kid).
From Ebay
Cover scan from fjor.
ESSENTIAL SUPER-VILLAIN TEAM-UP TPB (Sep 2004)
Marvel Comics
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From Diamond
Shipping This Week: September 9, 2004
Tuesday, September 07, 2004 9:47:59 AM
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JUL042053 ESSENTIAL SUPER VILLAIN TEAM UP TP $16.99
June 27, 2004 03:48 pm | Marvel for Sep 2004 |
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From Comic Book Resources
ESSENTIAL SUPER-VILLAIN TEAM-UP TPB (Sep 2004)
Marvel Comics
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MARVEL COMICS SOLICITATIONS FOR PRODUCT SHIPPING SEPTEMBER, 2004
Posted: June 16, 2004
by Jonah Weiland, Executive Producer
(excerpt)
ESSENTIAL SUPER-VILLAIN TEAM-UP TPB
Written by STAN LEE, ROY THOMAS, LEN WEIN, TONY ISABELLA,
GERRY CONWAY, JIM SHOOTER, MARV WOLFMAN, STEVE ENGLEHART,
BILL MANTLO, ARCHIE GOODWIN & LARRY LIEBER
Pencils by BILL EVERETT, GEORGE EVANS, WALLY WOOD, JOHN BUSCEMA,
SAL BUSCEMA, GENE COLAN, BOB HALL, MIKE SEKOWSKY, GEORGE PEREZ, JIM
SHOOTER, SAL TRAPANI, GEORGE TUSKA, GEORGE EVANS, HERB TRIMPE & KEITH
GIFFEN
Cover by GIL KANE
The line between hero and villain can be very thin, but rarely as
thin as in a book this big! The giants of the field collaborate on a
war epic stretching from the towers of Doctor Doom's Latveria to the
depths of Namor's Atlantis - with the Fantastic Four, the Avengers
and the Champions caught in the middle! Attuma! The Red Skull!
Magneto! The world is at stake, and you are there!
Collects GIANT-SIZE SUPER-VILLAIN TEAM-UP #1-2, SUPER-VILLAIN TEAM-UP
#1-14 and #16-17, AVENGERS #154-156, CHAMPIONS #16, and ASTONISHING
TALES #1-8.
552 PGS./ALL AGES …$16.99
UPC: 5960611545-00111
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