| Super-Villain Team-Up | |
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Giant-Size Super-Villain Team-Up #2. Cover art by Gil Kane. |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel |
| Schedule | Super-Villain Team-Up: Bi-monthly (1-14) Irregularly (15-17) Super-Villain Team-Up: MODOK's 11: Monthly |
| Format | Super-Villain Team-Up: Ongoing series Super-Villain Team-Up: MODOK's 11: Limited series |
| Publication date | Super-Villain Team-Up: March 1975 - June 1980 Super-Villain Team-Up: MODOK's 11: July 2007 - November 2007 |
| Number of issues | Super-Villain Team-Up: 19 Super-Villain Team-Up: MODOK's 11: 5 |
| Main character(s) | Super-Villain Team-Up: Doctor Doom Namor Super-Villain Team-Up: MODOK's 11: MODOK Puma Mentallo Armadillo Chameleon Deadly Nightshade Living Laser Rocket Racer Spot |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Super-Villain Team-Up: various Super-Villain Team-Up: MODOK's 11: Fred Van Lente |
| Artist(s) | Super-Villain Team-Up: various Super-Villain Team-Up: MODOK's 11: Francis Portela |
| Collected editions | |
| Essential Super-Villain Team-Up, Vol. 1 | ISBN 0785115455 |
| Super-Villain Team-Up: MODOK's 11 | ISBN 0785119922 |
Super-Villain Team-Up is the name of two American comic book series published by Marvel Comics. Both series featured supervillains as the protagonists.
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The first series started in 1975 with two giant-size issues before starting as a regular series, and was mostly bi-monthly during its existence. It initially teamed up Dr. Doom and Sub-Mariner, who had lost his own series, from which it picked up the unresolved plots, especially that of the comatose Atlanteans. After a continual succession of writers and artists and a crossover with The Avengers, the plot gets resolved in issue #13 when Dr. Doom revives the Atlanteans, thus dissolving his alliance with Sub-Mariner. The Sub-Mariner plot continued in The Defenders after which the character became an infrequent guest-star in the Marvel Universe.
Issue #14 (Oct. 1977), which featured Magneto and Dr. Doom, was billed as the final issue of the series,[1] and its plot-line was resolved in Champions #16. Inexplicably, SVTU continued with issue #15 (Nov. 1978), a reprint of Astonishing Tales #4-5, and issues #16-17, which featured the Red Skull and the Hate-Monger. The final issue, #17, was cover-dated June 1980, more than a year after #16 (May 1979).
The series saw the death of 1940s Sub-mariner sweetheart Betty Dean and the gruesome death of her murderer, Dr. Dorcas. Steve Englehart created The Shroud,[2] a character partly inspired by Batman,[3] shortly before he started to work for DC Comics on Detective Comics.
The series has been collected in an Essential Marvel volume.
This 2007 mini-series features eleven super-villains in the manner of the movie Ocean's Eleven.
This 2009 mini-series features Doctor Doom working with other villains.
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