Super-Villain Team-Up
Super-Villain Team-Up is the name of two American comic book series published by Marvel Comics. Both series featured supervillains as the protagonists.
Publication history
The first series started in 1975 with two giant-size issues before launching as a regular series, and was mostly bi-monthly during its existence. It initially teamed up Doctor Doom and the Sub-Mariner, who had lost his own series, from which it picked up the unresolved plots, especially that of the comatose Atlanteans. After a succession of writers and artists and a crossover with The Avengers, the plot gets resolved in issue #13 when Doctor Doom revives the Atlanteans, thus dissolving his alliance with the Sub-Mariner.Issue #14, which featured Magneto and Doctor Doom, was billed as the final issue of the series and its plotline was resolved in The Champions #16. The following year, SVTU continued with issue #15, a reprint of Astonishing Tales #4–5. Issues #16 and #17 featured the Red Skull and the Hate-Monger. The irregular publishing frequency of the final three issues was due to a legal maneuver to prevent DC Comics from trademarking the term "super-villain".
The series saw the death of the Sub-Mariner's 1940s sweetheart Betty Dean and the death of her murderer, Doctor Dorcas. Steve Englehart created The Shroud, a character partly inspired by Batman, shortly before he started to work for DC Comics on Detective Comics.
Issues
| Issue | Cover date | Character | Character | Notes |
| Giant–Size #1 | March 1975 | Doctor Doom | Sub-Mariner | new framing story by writer Roy Thomas and artists John Buscema and Joe Sinnott. Reprints Sub-Mariner #20 and Marvel Super-Heroes #20. |
| Giant–Size #2 | June 1975 | Doctor Doom | Sub-Mariner | vs. the Doomsman |
| #1 | August 1975 | Doctor Doom | Sub-Mariner | vs. Attuma, Doctor Dorcas, and Tiger Shark |
| #2 | October 1975 | Doctor Doom | Sub-Mariner | vs. Attuma, Doctor Dorcas, and Tiger Shark |
| #3 | December 1975 | Doctor Doom | Sub-Mariner | vs. Attuma, Doctor Dorcas, and Tiger Shark |
| #4 | February 1976 | Doctor Doom | Sub-Mariner | |
| #5 | April 1976 | Doctor Doom | Sub-Mariner | vs. the Fantastic Four |
| #6 | June 1976 | Doctor Doom | Sub-Mariner | vs. the Fantastic Four and the Shroud |
| #7 | August 1976 | Doctor Doom | Sub-Mariner | vs. the Shroud |
| #8 | October 1976 | Doctor Doom | Sub-Mariner | vs. the Ringmaster |
| #9 | December 1976 | Doctor Doom | Sub-Mariner | vs. Attuma. Crossover with The Avengers #154–156 |
| #10 | February 1977 | Doctor Doom | Sub-Mariner | vs. the Red Skull |
| #11 | April 1977 | Doctor Doom | Red Skull | |
| #12 | June 1977 | Doctor Doom | Red Skull | |
| #13 | August 1977 | Doctor Doom | Sub-Mariner | vs. Warlord Krang |
| #14 | October 1977 | Doctor Doom | Magneto | crossover with The Champions #16 |
| #15 | November 1978 | Doctor Doom | Red Skull | reprints Astonishing Tales #4 and #5 |
| #16 | May 1979 | Red Skull | Hate-Monger | |
| #17 | June 1980 | Red Skull | Hate-Monger | also featuring Arnim Zola |
''Super-Villain Team-Up: MODOK's 11''
In 2007 Marvel published Super-Villain Team-Up: MODOK's 11, a five-issue miniseries featuring eleven supervillains in the manner of the movie Ocean's Eleven.''Doctor Doom and the Masters of Evil''
This 2009 miniseries features Doctor Doom working with other villains.- #1 - Doctor Doom collaborates with the Sinister Six
- #2 - Doctor Doom collaborates with the Circus of Crime to beat Baron Zemo's Masters of Evil to a Hittite temple.
- #3 - Doctor Doom and his "Masters of Evil" clash with Blastaar.
- #4 - Doctor Doom collaborates with Magneto and Princess Python to steal an item from Selene.
Collected editions
- Essential Super-Villain Team-Up collects Giant-Size Super-Villain Team-Up #1–2 and Super-Villain Team-Up #1–17, 552 pages, September 2004,
- Super-Villain Team-Up: MODOK's 11 collects Super-Villain Team-Up: MODOK's 11 #1–5, 120 pages, February 2008,
- Doctor Doom and the Masters of Evil collects Doctor Doom and the Masters of Evil #1–4, 120 pages, July 2009,
- Super-Villains Unite: The Complete Super-Villain Team-Up collects Giant-Size Super-Villain Team-Up #1–2; Super-Villain Team-Up #1–14, 16–17; The Avengers #154–156; Champions #16, 464 pages, March 2015,