Super-Villain Team Up (Marvel)
Bill Mantlo (w) Bob Hall (a)
Hardly a "team-up" title as the villains were usually trying to out do each other and the main characters who appeared across this short lived series were Monarchs of their won nations. Doctor Doom in Latveria,"somewhere" in Eastern Europe and the Sub-Mariner in Atlantis under the Atlantic ocean. This issue sees the continuation of a plot involving the Red Skull who simply wants to rule the planet. Who doesn't?
Trouble is Doom isn't happy about the Red Skull using a hypno-ray to enslave the Earth (especially since it appears to be his technology and under the supervision of the Shroud who was sent as a minder on the mission by Captain America.
Meanwhile on planet Earth Namor, the Sub-Mariner is being his usual arrogant self by refusing to help because Doom has promised to help the Atlanteans currently in some form of stasis. On the Moon Herr Skull and his minions prepare for battle but one who dares to query his masters capability exits the story in a predictable manner.
A battle takes place on the moonscape as both villains over-egg themselves with grandiose and self indulgent pronouncements at each turn of events. While this goes on the Shroud tries to disarm the space weapon and accidentally sets it off....
Captain America arrives on the scene in the nick of time to save the Shroud and Doom not only beats the Skull but pinches his henchmen as his enemy lies helpless on the ground. But all is not quite over as the blurb tells us Atlantis awakes with the help of Doom in the next issue.
An entertaining little series high-lighting the darker side of the seventies Marvel universe that lasted 17 issues and a couple of specials.
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